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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.
Year: 1992
Runtime: 202 min
Director: Spike Lee
Actors: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr.
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Jungle Fever
Actors: Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee, Ossie Davis
Friends and family of a married black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.
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Selma
Actors: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Jim France, Trinity Simone
A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
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Gandhi
Actors: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud
Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.
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Ali
Actors: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles
A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.
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American History X
Actors: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Lien
A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.
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Boyz n the Hood
Actors: Hudhail Al-Amir, Lloyd Avery II, Angela Bassett, Miya McGhee
Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects.
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Mississippi Burning
Actors: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif
Two F.B.I. Agents, with wildly different styles, arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.
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The Godfather
Actors: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Actors: Simon Chuckster, Melvin Van Peebles, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
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Black Caesar
Actors: Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry, Art Lund, D'Urville Martin
Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his ...
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Public Enemies
Actors: Christian Bale, Christian Stolte, Jason Clarke, Johnny Depp
The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.
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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Actors: Halle Berry, Brent Spiner, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Obba Babatundé
This biography of Dorothy Dandridge follows her career through early days on the club circuit with her sister to her turn in movies, including becoming the first black actress to win a Best...
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Kansas City
Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte, Michael Murphy
Robert Altman's jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930s Kansas City. When Blondie O'Hara's husband, a petty thief, is captured by Seldom Seen and held ...
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Glory
Actors: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman
Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
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Death of a President
Actors: Hend Ayoub, Becky Ann Baker, Brian Boland, Michael Reilly Burke
Years after the assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago, an investigative documentary examines that as-yet-unsolved crime.
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Juice
Actors: Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins, Khalil Kain
Four inner-city teenagers get caught up in the pursuit of power and happiness, which they refer to as "the juice".
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Black Mass
Actors: Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
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Gran Torino
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Carley, Bee Vang, Ahney Her
Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.
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Donnie Brasco
Actors: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one.
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Truck Turner
Actors: Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Alan Weeks, Annazette Chase
Truck is a bounty hunter who gets a job to track down a guy named Gator. When he and his partner find him, a chase ensues and Gator is killed. This makes Gator's woman, Dorinda, very angry ...
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Menace II Society
Actors: Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, June Kyoto Lu, Toshi Toda
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
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Goodfellas
Actors: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mob, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate.
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Carlito's Way
Actors: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo
A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.
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The United States of Leland
Actors: Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Chris Klein, Jena Malone
A young man's experience in a juvenile detention center that touches on the tumultuous changes that befall his family and the community in which he lives.
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