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As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.
Year: 2013
Runtime: 132 min
Director: Lee Daniels
Actors: Forest Whitaker, David Banner, Michael Rainey Jr., LaJessie Smith
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All the Way
Actors: Bryan Cranston, Anthony Mackie, Melissa Leo, Frank Langella
Lyndon Johnson becomes the President of the United States in the chaotic aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination and spends his first year in office fighting to pass the Civil Rights Act.
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Actors: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Jim France, Trinity Simone
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Men of Honor
Actors: Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr., Charlize Theron, Aunjanue Ellis
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Actors: Greg Kinnear, Barry Pepper, Katie Holmes, Tom Wilkinson
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Panther
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Malcolm X
Actors: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr.
Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam.
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The Long Walk Home
Actors: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames
Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.
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Thirteen Days
Actors: Shawn Driscoll, Kevin Costner, Drake Cook, Lucinda Jenney
A dramatization and a fictionalized account of the Kennedy administration's struggle to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.
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A Time to Kill
Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey
In Canton, Mississippi, a fearless young lawyer and his assistant defend a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, inciting violent retribution and revenge from the Ku Klux Klan.
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The Tuskegee Airmen
Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Courtney B. Vance
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Love Field
Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Haysbert, Stephanie McFadden, Brian Kerwin
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Remember the Titans
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Ghosts of Mississippi
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The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Actors: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson
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The Great Debaters
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Sacco & Vanzetti
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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Actors: Halle Berry, Brent Spiner, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Obba Babatundé
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Frost/Nixon
Actors: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Bacon
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Mississippi Burning
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Freedom Writers
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The Theory of Everything
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