Racial Truth & Justice Movie List

Racial Truth & Justice Movie List Title Rated Theme/Era Selma PG-13 Civil Rights Era The Help PG-13 Black maids in the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi Race PG-13 Jesse Owens 42 PG-13 Jackie Robinson The Good Lie PG-13 Sudanese Refugees in 20th Century America A free black man from New York is kidnapped & 12 Years A Slave R sold into slavery pre-Civil War The Autobiography of Miss Jane An elderly woman and former slave fights for Civil Pittman NR Rights in the 1960s Southside With You PG-13 Barack and Michelle Obama 13th NR Documentary on racism in the 21st Century Brilliant black women who worked for NASA in Hidden Figures PG 1962 Lincoln PG-13 The Civil War A white teenager from apartheid South Africa lives The Color of Friendship G with a black Congressman’s family in 1977 America Loving PG-13 Interracial marriage in the south in 1958 An African American butler who served in the The Butler PG-13 White House The Color Purple PG-13 A young black woman’s life from 1910-1940 The mixed-race daughter of a British Admiral plays Belle PG a role in the campaign to abolish slavery A 12-year-old girl and her mother leave war-torn Dalya’s Other Country NR Aleppo to make a new life in Los Angeles Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai emerges as a He Named Me Malala PG-13 leading advocate for children’s rights Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner NR Interracial dating in the 1960s American Muslim human rights activist popular Malcolm X PG-13 during the civil rights movement Memoir of James Baldwin about his friends Medgar I Am Not Your Negro PG-13 Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. A black man is hired to care for a dying woman and Mr Church PG her young daughter in the 1970s Fences PG-13 1950s Amazing Grace PG 18th Century Slave Trade Amistad R Slave ships in 1839 Zootopia G Cartoon Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy NR American Indians Geronimo: The Legend PG American Indians The Greatest Showman PG Valuing and respecting marginalized people Freedom PG-13 Civil War Underground Railroad Glory R Civil War The Great Debaters PG-13 Black college students in the 1930s Schindler’s List R Anti-semitism Nazi Germany To Kill a Mockingbird NR Classic movie, Jim Crow Era The Long Walk Home PG Civil Rights Mississippi Burning R Civil Rights The Hurricane R Civil Rights Race, the Power of an Illusion NR Documentary 20th Century Racism Precious R Poverty and race Same Kind of Different as Me PG-13 People of all cultures have things in common The Central Park Five NR Documentary - 1989 Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four NR Documentary - 2016 Emanuel NR Documentary - 2019 El Norte R Drama Love Them First: Lessons From Lucy 2019 Documentary about Lucy Laney Elementary Laney Elementary NR School in Minneapolis Green Book PG-13 Biography Marshall PG-13 Biography Amazing Grace G Documentary, Music Harriet PG-13 Biography Black Klansman R Biography, Crime, Drama