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Some movies on the list may be repeated more than once. -Amistad -Antwone Fisher -Barbershop -Barbershop 2- Back In Business -Bend It Like Beckham -Boyz in the Hood -Charlotte Sometimes -Dangerous Minds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvEtX38Ik9k -Do the Right Thing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muc7xqdHudIand -Freedom Writers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT0L1U-Rdj4 -Gap Poet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_geAi-IMSfQ -Grand Canyon -Guess Who -Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner -House of Sand and Fog -In the Time of the Butterflies -Jungle Fever http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgNhn2GXhHMThey -John Q. -Kissing Jessica Stein -Mark Sampson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6IZOPlxRoM -North Country -Once Upon a Time…When We Were Colored -Real School http://one.revver.com/watch/193063 -Remember the Titans -Roots -School Ties -Sesame Street http://www.movieweb.com/video/HU09g508bWdx25 -The Color Purple -The Joy Luck Club -The Office http://www.spike.com/video/office-awkard-party/2825365 Crash is a very powerful movie dealing with diversity issues in a very real manner. It's a great movie for beginning discussions, Crash especially discussions that examine your own prejudices. Highly recommended. American History X is another powerful movie. It deals with issues of transformation and also deals with racial identity American History X development. Higher Learning also deals with issues of racial identity development and racism. Higher Learning Monster's Ball is set in the South and approaches a variety of racial issues, including the racism and interracial relationships. Monster's Ball The acting is also extremely good. Hotel Rwanda is as good of a movie as I have ever seen. It's well written, superbly acted, and does an incredible job at dealing Hotel Rwanda with the issues. The movie is about the genocide, which occurred in Rwanda and the world's reaction. Sometimes in April has many similarities to Hotel Rwanda, also dealing with the genocide in Rwanda. It provides some different information and viewpoints. Sometimes in April A Day Without a Mexican is another great independent film. In a somewhat humorous way, it explores what would happen to A Day Without a Mexican California if all the Mexicans were suddenly gone. The Laramie Project tells the story of Matthew Shephard's murder. The murder was a hate crime in which Shephard was the The Laramie Project target because he was gay. This is an extremely important movie. Priest is an important movies dealing with homosexuality and religious issues. Priest If These Walls Could Speak 2 is three different stories which look at the historical struggles associated with being lesbian at If These Walls Could Talk 2 different points in history. Angels in America began as an HBO miniseries dealing with issues of homosexuality and HIV. The series was important enough to draw many big name actors to the series. Angels in America Boys Don't Cry is based on a true story which occurred in rural Nebraska. Deals with issues of homosexuality and homophobia. Boys Don't Cry The Crying Game is a movie which is quite thought provoking and deals with a variety of diversity issues. The Crying Game Tiptoes is a movie most people probably haven't heard of, but this movie is well worth watching. One of the things that makes this a great diversity movie is that it deals with a form of diversity not often talked about: "Little people" or "dwarfs." The movie Tiptoes deals directly with some difficult diversity issues in a way that applies well to other forms of diversity. North Country is based upon a true story relevant to the first class action sexual harassment law suit in US history. It does an excellent job of creating a visceral feel for the experience of the women. It is well acted and did a good job of dealing with many North Country issues related to sexual harassment and sexual discrimination. Remember the Titans tells the story of a football coach who uses sports to help his players work through racial conflicts. Remember the Titans School Ties focuses on issues of Anti-Semitism in a historical context. A very good movie to set some of the historical contexts. School Ties Antwone Fisher is a very powerful movie that is well acted. It's a great movie of transformation, change, and learning. There are Antwone Fisher many good therapy applications, too. Charlotte Sometimes is an easy to miss independent film, but it should be. There is great acting around the emotional themes and a lot of good psychological material. The diversity issues are as explicit, but it shows some good issues related to Asian Charlotte Sometimes culture. The Joy Luck Club also focuses on Asian culture and acculturation issues. The Joy Luck Club Amistad is a great movie dealing with the slave grade. Amistad Diversity Title Year Topic Summary Citation A strange purple fog over California causes all people of Hispanic decent to vanish. This causes disruption among non- A Day Hispanic Without a population Mexican 2004 Stereotypes to suddenly http://www.allwatchers.com/topics/info_30532.asp realize how critical this segment of the population is to everyday life. A woman who was blinded from childhood spends her time in her grandfathers apartment cooking and cleaning until one day she meets a black man at a local park and falls in love. When her mother finds out she tries to end A Patch of this love Blue 1965 Racism affair. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059573/plotsummary An African American father takes justice into his own hands when his 10 year old daughter is raped by A Time to two white Kill 1996 Inequality men. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117913/plotsummary An 11 year old African American girl with a troubled home life finds out she is very smart when it comes to Minority being able to Akeelah and struggles and spell words. the Bee 2006 inequality She gets http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437800/plotsummary involved with spelling bees and works her way to the top. She faces many challenges such as not telling her mother of her progress because she thinks the spelling bee is distracting her from her school work, and balancing her work load and time with her friends. Slave traders kidnapped West Africans to bring back to the United States. While on the way back, one slave frees himself and releases others and initiates a rebellion. Many are killed in the rebellion, and the slaves allow a few of the slave traders to live in order for them to sail the ship back to Amistad 1997 Slavery Africa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amistad_(film) Several weeks pass, but they are tricked and they arrive in the United States where they stand trial and fight numerous court cases to win their freedom. They eventually win their case and are sent back to Africa. A young girl of Indian decent who is growing up in west London has a passion for playing soccer but her parents do not approve. She tries to live two separate lives of following what she Cultural wants to do Bend it like difference and trying to Beckham growing up in please her 2003 London parents. http://www.starpulse.com/Movies/Bend_it_Like_Beckham/Summary/ Lt. John Dunbar is repositioned in the western frontier where he encounters the local Dances with Native Sioux Indian Wolves 1990 Americans tribe and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099348/plotsummary earns their respect and joins them. A man who grew up in Ghana with only one leg changed the way the nation looked at people with disablities by riding his bike across Ghana with only one leg and the help Emmanuel's Disability and of other Gift 2005 Culture celebrities. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0447016/plotsummary A black civil rights activist is killed in the 60s by a supposed racist. The killer is tried several times and the trial ends up in a hung jury. The widow thinks she has what it takes to bring the killer back some 30 years later to trial, but Ghosts of needs help Mississippi 1996 Racism of the DA. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116410/plotsummary An all black regiment in the Civil War face racism and despite Glory 1989 Racism all they do http://www.starpulse.com/movie/Glory/V19993/0/2/ not quit. A Japanese survivor of Hiroshima, seeks to receive plastic surgery in the United States. While living with an American family she is faced with Hiroshima hatred and http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/22497/Hiroshima- Maiden 1988 Hatred/Racism racism. Maiden/overview FBI agents in the 1960s investigate the deaths of 3 civil rights workers in a small Mississippi town. Agents are faced with doing things by the book or bending the rules by local culture in order to find out Mississippi what Burning 1988 Racism happened. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095647/plotsummary Israel's government decides to take revenge for 11 athletes of the 1972 olympics Cultural who were difference murdered by between Palestinian Israel and perpetrators. Munich 2005 Palestine Mossad http://www.dancewithshadows.com/society/munich-movie.asp (Israeli secret intelligence agency) put together a team of assassins, to track down and eliminate the terrorists involved in the crime. A man is born with crippling cerebral palsy and learns to over come the odds by using the only limb he has control over, his left foot. With the help of his mother and a teacher he becomes a painter, poet My Left Foot 1989 Disability and author.
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