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Twenty Feet
From Stardom
(2013)

4 Little Girls
(1998)

The Age of Innocence
(1993)

All the President's Men
(1976)

Beloved
(1998)

The Big Short
(2015)

BlacKkKlansman
(2018)

Black Panther
(2018)

Born on the Fourth of July
(1989)

The Breakfast Club
(1985)

Cave of
Forgotten Dreams
(2010)

The Color Purple
(1985)

Control Room
(2004)

Creepshow
(1982)

Do The Right Thing
(1989)

Ethan Frome
(1993)

Fences
(2016)

Get Out
(2017)

The Giver
(2014)

Gran Torino
(2008)

Green Book
(2018)

The Help
(2011)

Hotel Rwanda
(2004)

The Hunger Games
(2012)

If Beale Street
Could Talk
(2019)

Into the Wild
(2007)

Jane Eyre
(2011)

The Joy Luck Club
(1993)

Judgment at Nuremberg
(1961)

The Kite Runner
(2007)

Lincoln
(2012)

Max
(2002)

Midnight Traveler
(2019)

Mulan
(1998)

Mystic River
(2003)

A Nightmare on
Elm Street
(1984)

Othello
(1995)

Out of Africa
(1985)

Pride & Prejudice
(2005)

Raiders of the Lost Ark
(1981)

Schindler's List
(1993)

Selma
(2014)

The Seven Five
(2014)

Shakespeare in Love
(1998)

The Shipping News
(2001)

Smoke Signals
(1998)

The Spongebob Movie:
Sponge on the Run
(2020)

Stage Beauty
(2004)

Their Eyes Were
Watching God
(2005)

They Shall Not
Grow Old
(2018)

To Kill a Mockingbird
(1962)

The Wild One
(1954)

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20 Feet From Stardom
Profiling backup singers who have performed for superstars such as Stevie Wonder, Sting and Bruce Springsteen.
4 Little Girls (1997)
Documentary recalling a racially motivated 1963 church bombing that took the lives of four children.
The Age of Innocence (1993)
In 1870s New York City, a society lawyer develops an obsessive love for his fiancée's cousin, recently returned from Europe under a scandalous cloud.
All The President's Men (1976)
Based on the true story of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post reporters who investigated and finally exposed the Watergate cover-up.
Beloved (1998)
A former slave is haunted by her experiences in this adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel, which blends tragedy and adventure with the supernatural.
The Big Short (2015)
Four unorthodox moneymen predict the 2008 financial crisis in this comedy, which explores the fraudulent mortgage-lending practices of large banks on Wall Street.
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
A black detective sets out to infiltrate the Colorado chapter of the Ku Klux Klan with the help of his Jewish colleague. In the midst of the 1970s civil rights movement, they risk their lives to obtain insider information on the violent organization.
Black Panther (2018)
A costumed warrior known as Black Panther defends Wakanda, a technologically advanced African country. Now, he must face a dissident who wants to sell the country's natural resources to fund an uprising in this thrilling superhero adventure.
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Docudrama about paralyzed Vietnam vet Ron Kovic.
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Five high-school students from different cliques spend a day-long detention together, and discover that they have more in common then they ever expected.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
Werner Herzog leads viewers on a tour of the cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc in Southern France, where 30,000-year-old cave drawings sat undiscovered and perfectly preserved until they were found by archaeologists in 1994.
Coco
A boy named Miguel dreams of becoming a famous guitar player, despite the misgivings of his close-knit family. When his lofty ambitions cause him to run afoul of a curse, he must journey into the Land of the Dead to seek forgiveness from his ancestors.
The Color Purple (1985)
Celie is a Southern black woman who lives in fear of her domineering, abusive husband. She learns to stick up for herself after befriending the strong-willed Sofia, who pays a price for her fierce independent streak.
Control Room (2004)
Fascinating cinéma-vérité documentary that follows the editors and journalists at the Arab news network Al-Jazeera during the American invasion of Iraq.
Creepshow (1982)
Comic-book spoof featuring horror vignettes by Stephen King (who plays Jordy).
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Racial tensions grow in a Brooklyn neighborhood on the hottest day of the summer.
Ethan Frome (1993)
Edith Wharton's novella about a doomed romance.
Fences (2016)
Adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a black garbage collector in 1950s Pittsburgh named Troy Maxson. Bitter about his lot in life, Maxson frequently takes out his frustrations on his loved ones.
Get Out (2017)
When a young African-American man visits his white girlfriend’s family estate, he becomes ensnared in a more sinister real reason for the invitation.
The Giver (2014)
young man living in a totalitarian society learns the true history of his community from a mysterious yet seemingly benevolent figure known as the Giver. In time, the youth finds the burden of the truth too great to bear and plots to escape.
Gran Torino (2008)
A bigoted Korean War vet befriends a troubled Asian teen who is being coerced into stealing his car: a cherry 1972 Gran Torino.
Green Book (2018)
A white bouncer bonds with a black musician while chauffeuring him around the Jim Crow South.
The Help (2011)
A débutante conducts interviews with black female servants in 1960s Mississippi, which sends her community into an uproar.
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
A hotel manager in mid-'90s Rwanda tries to save refugees by secretly sheltering them in his hotel.
The Hunger Games (2012)
A 16-year-old girl competes in a vicious televised tournament in which 24 teenagers from a postapocalyptic society fight to the death for the entertainment of the masses.
If Beale Street Could Talk (2019)
A young black couple in Harlem is ripped apart by the scheme of a racist cop. The sweethearts must rely on the strength of their community while seeking justice.
Into the Wild (2007)
Absorbing fact-based saga of a young man who chucks it all to wander across the U.S.
Jane Eyre (2011)
A young woman must come to terms with her past after fleeing from her employer, a cold but intriguing man for whom she worked as a governess, in this romantic drama based on the classic novel by Charlotte Brontë.
The Joy Luck Club (1993)
The hardships of four immigrant women and their daughters.
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
This Best Picture nominee is set in 1948 Nuremberg, Germany, where an aging American judge presides over the trials of Nazi defendants charged with war crimes against humanity.
The Kite Runner (2007)
An Afghani man in America returns to his homeland to help the son of a friend.
Lincoln (2012)
Abraham Lincoln attempts to outlaw slavery by fighting for the passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, all while negotiating peace with the South and dealing with his mentally unstable wife.
Max (2002)
After WWI, a Jewish art dealer tries to nurture painter Adolf Hitler in this controversial drama.
Midnight Traveler (2019)
When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee the country with his wife and two young daughters. Capturing the family’s uncertain journey firsthand, Fazili documents their harrowing trek across numerous borders revealing the danger and uncertainty facing refugees seeking asylum juxtaposed with the unbreakable love shared amongst the family on the run.
Mulan (1998)
A Chinese maiden disguises herself as a man so that she can fight invading Huns. During an ambush, Mulan proves herself to be a brave and fearless leader.
Mystic River (2003)
Childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited by a tragedy involving one of their children. As homicide cop Sean investigates, Jimmy enlists his relatives to launch their own inquiry. Later, suspicions fall on Jimmy and Sean's old friend Dave.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
In this classic of the horror film genre that launched a movie franchise, a hideously scarred pedophile who was murdered by a lynch mob returns years later in the terrifying nightmares of his killers' teenaged children ... And the dreaming teenagers are starting to die in their sleep.
Pride & Prejudice
Jane Austen's perennially popular story of the game of love among the British upper classes returns to the screen in this polished film adaptation.
Othello (1995)
Laurence Fishburne stars in this well-acted adaptation of the tragedy, set in 16th-century Venice.
Out of Africa (1985)
Danish author Isak Dinesen's memoirs recall her years running a coffee plantation in Kenya, her philandering husband, and her romance with an adventurer.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Megahit about intrepid archaeologist Indiana Jones, who in 1936 is sent on a mission to locate the elusive Ark of the Covenant. The storied treasure is said to make those who possess it invincible, and the U.S. Government wants Jones to find it before the Nazis do.
Schindler's List (1993)
A portrait of Oskar Schindler, who saved more than 1000 Jews during the Holocaust.
Selma (2014)
Civil-rights activists march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery to secure voting rights for black Americans in this docudrama, which focuses on the actions of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Seven Five (2014)
Profiling a corrupt New York police officer who profited from the drug trade.
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Best Picture winner is about the playwright and his muse, who inspires him to write "Romeo and Juliet." Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar for her role as the muse.
The Shipping News (2001)
A lonely printer looks for fulfillment when he and his daughter move to the family homestead in Newfoundland.
Smoke Signals (1998)
A Native American deals with the death of his estranged father.
The Spongebob Movie: Sponge on the Run
When Gary turns up missing, SpongeBob believes that his pet has been stolen. With the help of his pal Patrick, SpongeBob ventures to the Lost City of Atlantic City to rescue his pet. Along the way, flashbacks reveal when the bond between SpongeBob and Gary first blossomed.
Stage Beauty (2004)
A 17th-century actor feels threatened when women are allowed to act. Involving story.
Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)
The odyssey of a free spirit centers on stormy romances that span from the early 1900s into the '30s in Florida.
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
On the centenary of the end of the First World War, Academy Award® winner Peter Jackson presents an extraordinary new work showing the Great War as you've never seen it. Using state of the art technology to restore original archival footage that's more than 100 years old, Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell this story: the men who were there.
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
A widowed, morally upright lawyer defends a black man accused of raping a white woman in 1930s Alabama. Meanwhile, his two young children become involved in a mystery involving the town pariah.
The Wild One (1954)
A flamboyant hoodlum leads a motorcycle gang as it besiege a small town and battles a rival gang.

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