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 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
Amazing Grace (2006)
7.4/10
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Benedict Cumberbatch, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon...
The incredible true story of William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd), who fought for years, along with other anti-slavery campaigners, to ban the trans-At... Read more
Voices of Civil Rights: Volume 2 (2006)
In the summer of 2004 a group of journalists embarked on a bus tour that would take them around the US, recording first-hand stories of the Civil Righ... Read more
Wassup Rockers (2005)
6/10
Director: Larry Clark
Starring: Jonathan Velasquez, Francisco Pedrasa, Milton Velasquez, Usvaldo Panameno, Eddie...
Filmmaker Larry Clark ('Kids', 'Bully') again tackles the inner workings of urban youth culture in this comedy drama about a handful of Salvadorian em... Read more
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
7.4/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Tommy Lewis, Angela Punch McGregor, Jack Thompson, Freddy Reynolds
Jimmie (Tommy Lewis), an Aborigine man of mixed racial heritage, faces prejudice and abuse in 19th-century Australia while performing the lowliest men... Read more
Serenades (2001)
6.6/10
Director: Mojgan Khadem
Starring: Alice Haines, Aden Young, Bille Brown, Sinisa Copic
Set in 19th-century Australia, a girl is born of an Aboriginal mother and an Afghan father - a dark skinned, green eyed, forbidden beauty. Raised by h... Read more
Hairspray ( Blu-ray ) (2007)
6.7/10
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Byne...
An adaptation of the stage musical which was itself an adaptation of the 1988 John Waters film. Overweight high school student Tracy Turnblad dreams o... Read more
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)
7.5/10
Director: Errol Morris
Master documentarian Errol Morris takes an unflinching look at the Abu Ghraib prison scandal while meditating on the frightening side effects of the '... Read more
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
7.3/10
Director: Ryan Coogler
Starring: Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Andy Serkis, Martin Freeman, Danai Jekesai Guri...
Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M'Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect the kingdom of Wakanda from intervening world powers in the wake of King T'Ch... Read more
Jungle Fever (1991)
6.5/10
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee
This stirring and thought-provoking drama is about a love affair that crosses over racial, ethnic, cultural and geographic boundary lines and re-estab... Read more