Racial Intolerance
The degradation and maltreatment of people based on their ethnicity or skin colour has plagued the human condition since we first began travelling around the globe. This category includes films and documentaries that explore the consequences of ignorance and intolerance from the large scale horrors of political oppression and genocide ('Rabbit Proof Fence', 'Sometimes in April'), to the personal prejudices that inhibit our growth and development ('American History X', 'Crash').
The Color Purple ( Blu-ray ) (1985)
7.8/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Adolph Caesar, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Rae Dawn Chong, Whoopi Goldberg, Mar...
Steven Spielberg's magnum opus, with Whoopi Goldberg and Danny Glover in an adaptation of Alice Walker's seminal book. A richly-textured, decades-span... Read more
The Defiant Ones (1958)
7.7/10
Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Theodore Bikel, Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier
Nominated for nine Academy Awards including Best Picture, Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones broke new ground by delivering its message of racial toler... Read more
The Fringe Dwellers (1986)
6.8/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Kristina Nehm, Justine Saunders, Bob Maza
Ancient traditions clash with white civilisation as we are shown the trials and tribulations of a young, ambitious Aborigine woman named Trilby and he... Read more
The Glass Shield (1995)
6.6/10
Director: Charles Burnett
Starring: Richard Anderson, Ice Cube, Michael Boatman, Bernie Casey, Lori Petty
Powerful thriller about a young, idealistic black cop who gets a rude awakening about the force when he encounters racism and other forms of hatred in... Read more
The Hate U Give (2018)
7.2/10
Director: George Tillman Jr
Starring: Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, K J Apa, Common , Anthony Mackie...
Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds -- the poor, mostly black neighborhood where she lives and the wealthy, mostly white prep scho... Read more
The Hurricane (1999)
7.6/10
Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: Denzel Washington, John Hannah, Liev Schreiber, Deborah Kara Unger
He was the man who inspired songwriters, actors and everyday people to march on the streets of the US for justice and freedom. His name is Rubin "Hurr... Read more
The Klansman (1974)
5.1/10
Director: Terence Young
Starring: Richard Burton, Lee Marvin, Cameron Mitchell, O J Simpson
With a cast including Richard Burton and Lee Marvin, a script co-written by Samuel Fuller and dealing with the topic of race relations in the deep Sou... Read more
The Merchant of Venice (2004)
7.1/10
Director: Michael Radford
Starring: Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Zuleikha Robinson, Kris M...
Al Pacino takes the lead role of Shylock the moneylender in one of Shakespeare's most searing plays, with Jeremy Irons as the melancholy Antonio who o... Read more
The Resting Place (1986)
Director: John Korty
Starring: John Lithgow, Morgan Freeman, CCH Pounder, Frances Sternhagen
An impressive list of issues are raised about the American military and small town living in this made-for-TV special. John Lithgow stars as an army... Read more
The Tracker (2002)
7.5/10
Director: Rolf de Heer
Starring: Noel Wilton, Gary Sweet, Damon Gameau, Grant Page, David Gulpilil
In 1922, The Tracker (David Gulpilil) has the job of tracking an Aborigine (Noel Wilton) suspected of murdering a white woman, and leads a police offi... Read more