Top 10 movies about black people and racism you should watch
Riots for the "Black Lives Matter" movement are taking place across the United States, thousands of people take to the streets to protest to regain justice for people of color in America. However, many people still do not understand the seriousness of the problems and are indifferent to them. Here are 10 movies with the most honest depiction of people of color and racism in America you need to see.
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TGet Out (2017)
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Racism is a terrifying and deadly crime. But "Get Out" isn't about blatant, scary types of racism like burning crucifixes and indifference or hatred, but instead, it's about white people's liberal racism, self-righteous prejudices. Racism disguised as harmless aggression is as scary as blatant prejudice, and in "Get Out," director Jordan Peele helps us feel that horror. Like other classic social issue films, "Get Out" takes a theme that is often approached with reason - the common problem of racism - and turns it into something you can feel. received with all his feelings.
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12 Years A Slave (2013)
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This is probably the most famous movie title of all time about racism. In the years leading up to the Civil War, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. Despite suffering cruelty from his cruel owner (Michael Fassbender), Solomon also receives unexpected kindness from others, motivating him to continue his struggle to survive and maintain his dignity. After 12 years of failing to free himself, a chance meeting with an abolitionist from Canada changes Solomon's life forever.
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Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? (2017)
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"Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun?" began as a "live documentary" about a white filmmaker confronting his family's racist past. Travis Wilkerson's great-grandfather killed a black man in 1946, and decades later, Wilkerson set out for Alabama to try to find out what had happened. Through interviews, photos, music, and personal investigation, Wilkerson tells the story while sitting on stage while clips and images are projected onto a screen. Wilkerson's anger and brokenness can be felt as he thinks about his family's "white power" history and himself.
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Do The Right Thing (1989)
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Spike Lee Forge's 1989 classic is a comedy with an angry side, one you need to see even after it's been on for more than three decades. On the hottest day of summer in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, tensions began to rise, which led to a major conflict. When police arrived to mediate the argument, they strangled one of the participants - a black man named Raheem - and killed him, then fled the scene. Lee dedicated the film to Eleanor Bumpurs, Michael Griffith, Arthur Miller Jr., Edmund Perry, Yvonne Smallwood and Michael Stewart, six victims of racist violence and police brutality. Upon its release, "Do the Right Thing" was criticized not for its depiction of police violence but because critics such as New York magazines Joe Klein and David Davidby said it could incite racial violence. Now, the film perfectly depicts how black people are discriminated against in America.
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Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
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"Hale County This Morning, This Evening" is an English-language documentary about the lives of black people in Hale County, Alabama. The film is directed by RaMell Ross and produced by RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, and Su Kim, and is Ross' first fictional film. This documentary won an award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, the 2018 Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary Feature, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. After it hit theaters, it aired on the PBS series "Independent Lens".
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