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').
Babel ( Blu-ray ) (2006)
7.5/10
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Mohamed Akhzam, Peter Wight, Harriet Walter, Trevor M...
The director of '21 Grams' has loosley weaved together four stories from three conitinents in this powerful drama about cultural barriers. Brad Pitt a... Read more
Journey from the Fall (2006)
7.3/10
Director: Ham Tran
Starring: Kieu Chinh, Diem Lien, Long Nguyen, Nguyen Thai Nguyen, Khanh Doan
A poignant and realistic drama, set after the Americans left war-torn Saigon, depicting a side of the Vietnam War seldom seen - the affect on the Viet... 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
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Parts (2006)
8.6/10
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Spike Lee
In August 2005, the city of New Orleans was struck by the devastating Hurricane Katrina. Director Spike Lee chronicles both the physical and emotiona... 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
Catch A Fire (2006)
6.7/10
Director: Phillip Noyce
Starring: Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Henna, Mncedisi Shabangu, Tumisho Masha, Sithemb...
Tells the story of freedom fighter and political prisoner Patrick Chamusso who became politicised in the 1980s when he was falsely accused of bombing... Read more
The Architect (2006)
5.6/10
Director: Matt Tauber
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia, Viola Davis, Isabella Rossellini, Hayden Panettiere, Sebastian...
Anthony LaPaglia plays architect Leo Waters, living an outwardly perfect life in the suburbs, while on the East Side of Chicago the residents in one o... Read more
The Trials of Darryl Hunt (2006)
7.7/10
Director: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg
In 1984, copy editor Deborah Sykes was raped and murdered. Three suspects leapt out, but one was settled on very quickly, 19-year-old, black youth, D... 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
Voices of Civil Rights: Volume 1 (2006)
Starring: Martin Luther King
A powerful collection of documentary programs chronicling one of the most turbulent and triumphant periods in American history. This series features o... Read more