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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)

The Bone Collector (1999)

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

The Breakfast Club (1985)

Casablanca (1942)

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

Citizen Kane (1941)

The Color Purple (1985)

Do The Right Thing (1989)

Ethan Frome (1993)

Fences (2016)

Get Out (2017)

The Giver (2014)

Gladiator (2000)

Gran Torino (2008)

Green Book (2018)

The Help (2011)

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

The Hunger Games (2012)

If Beale Street Could Talk (2019)

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

Into the Wild (2007)

Jane Eyre (2011)

The Joy Luck Club (1993)

The Kite Runner (2007)

Lincoln (2012)

Malcolm X (1992)

Max (2002)

Mississippi Burning (1988)

Moonlight (2016)

Never Let Me Go (1953)

Othello (1995)

Out of Africa (1985)

Psycho (1960)

Roger & Me (1989)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Schindler's List (1993)

Selma (2014)

The Seven Five (2014)

Smoke Signals (1998)

Stage Beauty (2004)

Stardust (2007)

Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)

They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Vice (2018)

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.
The Bone Collector (1999)
A quadriplegic detective forensics expert tracks a serial killer using computer technology, enlisting help from a gifted, but inexperienced rookie.
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.
Casablanca (1942)
Rick Blaine owns a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca, frequented by refugees desperate to escape German domination. Despite the ever-present human misery, Rick manages to remain uninvolved in World War II now raging across Europe and Northern Africa. But all that changes when Ilsa Lund walks through the front door of Rick's club--Rick must now choose between a life with the woman he loves and becoming the hero that both she and the world need.
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.
Citizen Kane (1941)
1940. Alone at his fantastic estate known as Xanadu, 70-year-old Charles Foster Kane dies, uttering only the single word Rosebud. So ends the odyssey of a life ... and begins a fabulous tale of the rise to wealth and power--and ultimate fall--of a complex man.
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.
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.
Gladiator (2000)
Thrilling Best Picture winner about a Roman general who becomes a gladiator.
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.
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Compelling documentary about the perils of global warming, focusing on Al Gore's lecture tour.
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.
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.
Malcolm X (1992)
A biography chronicling the life and death of assassinated civil-rights leader Malcolm X.
Max (2002)
After WWI, a Jewish art dealer tries to nurture painter Adolf Hitler in this controversial drama.
Mississippi Burning (1988)
A fictionalized account of the FBI's probe into the 1964 disappearance of civil-rights activists in the South.
Moonlight (2016)
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Never Let Me Go (1953)
The Soviet police won't let a Russian ballerina leave with her American husband, so he devises a plan to spirit her out of the country.
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.
Psycho (1960)
A psychotic motel owner obsesses over his late mother while becoming a suspect in a murder case involving one of his recent guests—a pretty secretary who checked in after impulsively stealing $40,000.
Roger & Me (1989)
Essay on General Motors plant closings in Flint, Michigan, which left thousands unemployed. The target for satire is GM chairman Roger Smith.
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
A U.S. Army captain leads a mission to rescue a GI trapped behind enemy lines in France on D-Day after all three of the soldier's brothers are killed in action. As the search commences, the close-knit squad sets out through areas still thick with Nazis.
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.
Smoke Signals (1998)
A Native American deals with the death of his estranged father.
Stage Beauty (2004)
A 17th-century actor feels threatened when women are allowed to act. Involving story.
Stardust (2007)
Lad retrieves a fallen star that transforms into a woman whose magic is coveted by a witch.
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.
Vice (2018)
Dick Cheney gains political power with the Bush administration which he uses to his advantage.
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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