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').
Martin Scorsese's sprawling historical saga is set in the strife-torn Five Points neighbourhood of 1860s Manhattan. The film follows Irish-American Le... Read more
A true story based in part on the letters of a young and inexperienced white soldier from the North given the task of training America's first unit of... Read more
An inspirational look at one of the most famous basketball games in history and the coach who made it happen. At Texas Western in 1966, Coach Don Has... Read more
The surprising relationship that developed between Nelson Mandela and South African prison guard James Gregory is explored in this riveting biodrama.... Read more
Earnest ensemble drama set in a small Southern town still haunted by the unsolved assassination of a civil rights leader there thirty years ago. John... Read more
Clint Eastwood directs himself as Walt Kowalski, a racist Korean War veteran living in a crime-ridden area of Detroit. When a troubled local teen atte... Read more
Dr Don Shirley is a world-class African-American pianist, who is about to embark on a concert tour in the Deep South in 1962. In need of a driver and... Read more
Dr Don Shirley is a world-class African-American pianist, who is about to embark on a concert tour in the Deep South in 1962. In need of a driver and... Read more
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katharine Houghto... Read more
When Joanna Drayton (Katharine Houghton), a free-thinking white woman, and black doctor John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) become engaged, they travel to... Read more