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 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 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
Shinjuku Incident (2009)
7.1/10
Director: Tung-Shing Derek Yee
Starring: Jackie Chan, Naoto Takenaka, Daniel Wu, Jinglei Xu, Bingbing Fan
Jackie Chan takes a break from kung fu and flexes his dramatic muscle as a Chinese immigrant living illegally in Tokyo. In search of his girlfriend, t... Read more
Billy Jack Collection: Born Losers / Billy Jack / The Trial of Billy Jack / Billy Jack Goes to Washington (1977)
Director: T C Frank
Starring: Clark Howat, Tom Laughlin, Jane Russell, Jeremy Slate, Delores Taylor, E G Marsh...
Truly controversial at the time, the popular 'Billy Jack' movies feature Tom Laughlin - who also penned the scripts and directed (under the pseudonym... Read more
Choking Man (2006)
6/10
Director: Steve Barron
Starring: Octavio Gomez Berrios, Eugenia Yuan, Mandy Patinkin, Aaron Paul, Kate Buddeke
Jorge (Octavio Gomez Berrios) is a shy young Ecuadorian dish washer living in Jamaica - not as in the Caribbean, but as in, Queens, New York City. He... Read more
Sweet Land (2005)
7.3/10
Director: Ali Selim
Starring: Alan Cumming, John Heard, Ned Beatty, Paul Sand, Tim Guinee, Alex Kingston, Lois...
Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI,... Read more
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? (Blu-Ray) (1967)
7.8/10
Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy
When Joanna Drayton (Katharine Houghton), a free-thinking white woman, and black doctor John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) become engaged, they travel to... Read more
Lackawanna Blues (2005)
7.9/10
Director: George C Wolfe
Starring: S Epatha Merkerson, Julie Benz, Robert A Bradley, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Kathlee...
Based on a one-man show by Ruben Santiago-Hudson (played by Hill Harper) this is the inspiring story of Nanny Crosby (S. Epatha Merkerson) a big-heart... Read more
Civic Duty (2006)
6.3/10
Director: Jeff Renfroe
Starring: Peter Krause, Kari Matchett, Richard Schiff, Khaled Abol Naga
With the stress of losing his job finally getting to him, Terry (Peter Krause), an unemployed accountant, begins to suspect his new neighbour, a Middl... Read more
Men of Honour ( Blu-ray ) (2000)
Director: George Tillman Jr
Starring: Charlize Theron, Cuba Gooding Jr, David Keith, Hal Holbrook, Michael Rapaport, P...
This is the true story of Carl Brashear, the first black member of the U.S. Navy's deep sea diving team. Cuba Gooding Jr. plays Brashear, the Navy rec... Read more