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 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 Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
7.2/10
Director: Robert Markowitz
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Cuba Gooding Jr, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Andre Br...
A top flight cast of actors star in this true story of the 'Fighting 99th' - the first squadron of black combat fighters in World War II. Battling aga... Read more
Romper Stomper (1992)
6.8/10
Director: Geoffrey Wright
Starring: Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie
Geoffrey Wright's controversial film about a community of Melbourne skinheads. Scenes of ultra violence and racism prompted the Anti Nazi League to qu... Read more
Malcolm X (1992)
7.7/10
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall
Spike Lee's three-hour epic tale of the life and times of the small-time crook from Harlem turned revolutionary civil rights activist has Denzel Washi... Read more
Fried Green Tomatoes ( at the Whistle Stop Cafe ) (1991)
7.7/10
Director: Jon Avnet
Starring: Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker
An appealing, heartwarming, comedy-drama based on Fannie Flagg's 'Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe' about rural Alabama past and present... Read more
Boyz N The Hood (1991)
7.8/10
Director: John Singleton
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr, Ice Cube, Laurence Fishburne
A thoughtful look at life in the black section of South Central Los Angeles. A divorced father strives to raise his son with values and steer him away... 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
Do The Right Thing (Blu-Ray) (1989)
7.9/10
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Bill Nunn, Danny Aiello, Giancarlo Esposito, John Turturro, Martin Lawrence, Oss...
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione (Danny Aiello) is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito), become... Read more
A Dry White Season (1989)
7/10
Director: Euzhan Palcy
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae, Jurgen Prochnow, Susan Sarandon, M...
Donald Sutherland is South African school teacher Ben du Toit, someone who has remained isolated from the racial violence in his country until his bla... Read more
Glory (1989)
7.9/10
Director: Edward Zwick
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Cary Elwes, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Andre Braugher...
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