Racial Tension Movies

A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman,...

Vastly different lives and perspectives become intertwined after a police officer suffering from reoccurring PTSD mistakenly shoots a deaf African-Ame...

In 1993 Fiza's brother disappears during the riots in Mumbai. In 1999 Fiza is tired of waiting and goes looking for him.

An enigmatic man (Sidney Poitier) returns to his Alabama hometown as his sister is dying of cancer and incites the suspicion of notable town officials...

A documentary that chronicles the life of South African leader Nelson Mandela. Mandela is probably best known for his 27 years of imprisonment, and fo...

In 1962 in Montgomery, Alabama, State Attorney Richmond Flowers, Sr. is one of few willing to fight racial injustices even if it costs him his family'...

Danny ponders a way for rival gangs to avoid violence at an upcoming dance.

Their town always had two proms, one for the whites and one for the blacks. When both proms wanted the same DJ, Brianna McCallister suggested combinin...

A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his traini...

Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.

A detailing of the plight of white South African farmers.

Director Steve James returns to his home town of Hampton, Virginia to tell the story of how the trial of a young basketball star left a city divided.

Exploiting racial hatred, a group of thieves start robbing houses disguised as local gypsies.

Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. Taking a stand a...

Myra Chang comes of age in a dysfunctional family business. When her abusive mother tries to claim her life, Myra comes face to face with a decision t...

A Southern sheriff brings into his home a black juvenile delinquent, who is the son of the man who saved his life during the Korean War.

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

James Earl Jones narrates this examination of the historical relationship between American Indians and African-Americans, who often merged their cultu...

Confused, in a haze of consciousness and intolerance, five fragile souls enter an eerie dimension. This journey forces an artist, junkie, an unapologe...

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965),the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital in the rainforests of Gabon, achieved sainthood i...