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Coach Carter

By Khamisi

Coach Carter is a 2005 American biographical teen sports drama film starring Samuel L. Jackson and directed by Thomas Carter (no relation). The film is based on the true story of Richmond High School basketball coach Ken Carter (played by Jackson), who made headlines in 1999 for suspending his undefeated high school basketball team due to poor academic results. The story was conceived from a screenplay co-written by John Gatins and Mark Schwahn.
- Running Time: 2hr 16min
- Drama and History
(0 reviews)
Submitted October 16
Till

By Khamisi

The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.
- Running Time: 2hr 10min
- Drama
(0 reviews)
Submitted October 15
Skin

By Khamisi

Skin is a British-South African 2008 biographical film about Sandra Laing, a South African woman born to white parents, who was classified as "Coloured" during the apartheid era, presumably due to a genetic case of atavism.
- Running Time: 1hr 47min
- Drama
(0 reviews)
Submitted September 24
The Long Walk Home

By Khamisi

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.
- Running Time: 1hr 37min
- Drama and History
(0 reviews)
Submitted August 15
Betty and Coretta

By Khamisi

The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands.
- Running Time: 1hr 30min
- Drama
(0 reviews)
Submitted August 15
Ruby Bridges

By Khamisi

The true story of Ruby Bridges, an African-American girl who, in 1960 at age 6, helped to integrate the all-white schools of New Orleans. Although she was the only black girl to come to the school she was sent to, (and since all the white mothers pulled their children out of class, she was the only one there, period), and though she faced a crowd of angry white citizens every day, she emerged unscathed, physically or emotionally. Encouraged by her teacher, a white woman from the North named Barb
- Running Time: 1hr 36min
- Drama, Family and History
(0 reviews)
Submitted August 15
My Nephew Emmett

By Khamisi

This visually ravishing and thought-provoking work portrays one of the USA’s great shames—the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till by two white men in Mississippi—and movingly reminds us of this dark episode’s enduring relevance.
- Running Time: 19min
- History and Drama
(0 reviews)
Submitted August 15
The Rosa Parks Story

By Khamisi

This is an account of the life of Mrs. Rosa Louise McCauly Parks and her actions in the civil rights movement. After she refused to give up her seat for a White man on a racially segregated bus after a long day at work, she was arrested. Her example and treatment prompted a bus boycott as a major civil rights demonstration in Montgomery, Alabama; it lasted 381 days from 1955 to 1956.
- Running Time: 1hr 37min
- Drama and History
(0 reviews)
Submitted August 15
Njinga, Queen of Angola

By Khamisi

In the 17th century a warrior woman fights for the independence of Angola. After witnessing the murder of her son and watching her people being humiliated by Portuguese colonizers, Njinga will become a Queen and struggle for their liberation embodying the motto: those who stay fight to win.
- Running Time: 1hr 49min
- Adventure and Drama
(0 reviews)
Updated August 6
The Hurricane

By Khamisi

The true story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, an African-American boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
- Running Time: 2hr 26min
- Drama
(0 reviews)
Submitted July 10
Lean On Me

By Khamisi

When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers, padlocks doors and demands effort and results from students, staff and parents. Autocratic to a fault, this real-life educator put it all on the line.
- Running Time: 1hr 48min
- Drama
(0 reviews)
Submitted July 2
The Great Debaters

By Khamisi

The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.
- Running Time: 2hr 6min
- Drama
(0 reviews)
Submitted July 2
Judas and the Black Messiah

By Khamisi

Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
- Running Time: 2hr 6min
- Drama and History
(0 reviews)
Submitted June 25
Hotel Rwanda

By Khamisi

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
- Drama, History and War
(0 reviews)
Submitted June 25
Hidden Figures

By Khamisi

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
- Drama and History
(0 reviews)
Submitted June 25
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

By Khamisi

Redemption tells the story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term, and his work writing children's novels encouraging peace and anti-violence resolutions which earned him multiple Nobel Peace Prize nominations. After exhausting all forms of appeal, Tookie was executed by lethal injection.
- Running Time: 1hr 35min
- Crime and Drama
(0 reviews)
Submitted June 21
Ray

By Khamisi

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.
- Running Time: 2hr 32min
- Drama and Music
(0 reviews)
Submitted June 21
What's Love Got to Do with It

By Khamisi

What's Love Got to Do with It is a 1993 American biographical film directed by Brian Gibson, based on the life of Tina Turner. The film stars Angela Bassett as Tina Turner and Laurence Fishburne as Ike Turner. The screenplay was adapted by Kate Lanier from the book I, Tina co-written by Turner with Kurt Loder. Both Ike and Tina assigned rights to Lanier for their lives to be dramatized in the film. The film's soundtrack featured the hit song "I Don't Wanna Fight", which went to number one in sev
- Running Time: 1hr 58min
- Drama
(0 reviews)
Submitted June 21
Why Do Fools Fall In Love

By Khamisi

In the mid-80s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager, Morris Levy. One is an L.A. singer, formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philly; one teaches school in a small Georgia town. Each claims to be the widow of long-dead doo-wop singer-songwriter Frankie Lyman, and each wants years of royalties due to his estate, money Levy has never shared. During an ensuing civil trial, flashbacks tell the story of each one's life with Lyman,
- Running Time: 1hr 56min
- Drama and Romance
(0 reviews)
Submitted June 21
Just Mercy

By Khamisi

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
- Running Time: 2hr 17min
- Drama, Crime and History
(0 reviews)
Submitted June 10
Harriet

By Khamisi

The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
- Running Time: 2hr 5min
- Drama and History
(0 reviews)
Submitted May 18
Antwone Fisher

By Khamisi

A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and begins a quest to find the family he never knew.
- Running Time: 2hr
- Drama and Romance
(0 reviews)
Submitted May 14
The Pursuit of Happyness

By Khamisi

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
- Running Time: 1hr 57min
- Drama
(0 reviews)
Submitted May 14
Ali

By Khamisi

In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.
- Running Time: 2hr 37min
- Drama
(0 reviews)
Submitted May 14
Selma

By Khamisi

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.
- Running Time: 2hr 7min
- History and Drama
(0 reviews)
Submitted May 14