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 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
Roots (1977)
8.4/10
Director: David Greene, Gilbert Moses, John Erman, Marvin Chomsky
Starring: John Amos, Maya Angelou, Edward Asner, Lloyd Bridges, Georg Stanford Brown, LeVa...
His name was Kunta Kinte. Kidnapped from Africa and enslaved in America in 1767, he refused to accept his slave name of Toby. Heirs kept his heroic de... 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
The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
6.5/10
Director: Ralph Nelson
Starring: Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson, Rutger Hauer, Saeed Jaffrey, Sidney Poitier, Pr...
Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine deliver powerhouse performances in this provocative thriller set in Apartheid South Africa, where racial tension is a... 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
Cabaret (1972)
7.8/10
Director: Bob Fosse
Starring: Michael York, Marisa Berenson, Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Helmut Griem
Winner of 8 Oscars, including Best Director (Bob Fosse), Best Actress (Lisa Minnelli) and Best Supporting Actor (Joel Grey) and widely regarded as one... 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
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)
7.8/10
Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katharine Houghto... Read more
In The Heat Of The Night (1967)
8/10
Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
Winner of five Oscars including Best Picture. Rod Steiger stars as a red neck sheriff who grudgingly accepts help from Sidney Poitier, a black big cit... Read more
To Kill a Mockingbird ( Blu-ray ) (1962)
8.3/10
Director: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Brock Peters, Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Paul Fix, Phillip Alford, Robert Duvall...
Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, the defence lawyer of a black man accused of rape in the American South. Scripted by Hor... Read more