The play "A Raisin in the Sun" was the first realistic portrayal of a contemporary black American family during the civil rights era.

World War II murder of an African American soldier near his base.
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Based on the life of William Wilberforce--his passion and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade.

1839 revolt aboard a slave ship and trial that followed.

Cecily Tyson as a woman born a slave in 1851 who lived to see the civil rights era.

A slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter. Based on book by Toni Morrison.

Martin Luther King and the Montgomery bus boycott of the 1950s.

Spike Lee's documentary on the 1963 bombing of the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Based on true story of the first all African American regiment in the U.S.Army, fighting for the Union during the Civil War.

Denzel Washington as professor Melvin Tolson, whose African American debate team from Wiley College in Texas rose to national prominence.

James Earl Jones as boxer Jack Jefferson dealing with racism in the early twentieth century. Based on life of Jack Johnson.

A law student defends an African American POW falsely accused of murder.

The Delany Sisters reminisce about their remarkable lives.

The case of the Scottsboro Nine in 1933.

Halle Berry as the first African American woman to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar.

Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, German boxer who was his opponent and friend.

African American who became an iconic star in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s.

Reuben Santiago-Hudson's story of a struggling African American community during the segregation era.

Through his religious conversion to Islam, Malcolm X rose up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.

Carl Brashear, first African American U.S.Navy diver.

Four African American "Buffalo Soldiers" trapped in a Tuscan village in World War II.

True story of the U.S. Government's 1932 Tuskegee Syphilis experiments.

Two FBI agents go to Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of civil rights activists.

Alex Haley's story of the daughter of a plantation owner and a slave.

Blockbuster 1977 TV series, Alex Haley's family story from Kunta Kinte through 6 generations.

Angela Bassett as the civil rights pioneer and heroine.

1984 western. Four men fight to bring peace to the town of Silverado. Danny Glover as Mal.

Laurence Fishburne stars in historical drama about the first African American pilots in the U.S.Military.