6.2
For Love of Ivy
IMDb: 6.2 1968 101 min
A white family has had the same Black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish ...
7.6
To Sir, with Love
IMDb: 7.6 1967 105 min
A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in ...
7.9
In the Heat of the Night
IMDb: 7.9 1967 109 min
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny ...
7.8
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
IMDb: 7.8 1967 108 min 1 views
A couple’s attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
7
The Slender Thread
IMDb: 7 1965 98 min
Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan ...
8
A Patch of Blue
IMDb: 8 1965 105 min
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
7.3
The Bedford Incident
IMDb: 7.3 1965 102 min
During a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS ...
6
The Long Ships
IMDb: 6 1964 126 min
Moorish ruler El Mansuh is determined to locate a massive bell made of gold known as the “Mother of Voices.” Viking explorer Rolfe ...
7.5
Lilies of the Field
IMDb: 7.5 1963 94 min
An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being ...
7.1
Pressure Point
IMDb: 7.1 1962 89 min
An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with ...
8
A Raisin in the Sun
IMDb: 8 1961 128 min
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems ...
6.7
Paris Blues
IMDb: 6.7 1961 98 min
During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music ...
6.2
All the Young Men
IMDb: 6.2 1960 83 min
During the Korean War, the lieutenant in charge of a Marine rifle platoon is killed in battle. Before he dies, he places the platoon’s ...
6.9
Porgy and Bess
IMDb: 6.9 1959 138 min
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar ...
7.5
The Defiant Ones
IMDb: 7.5 1958 96 min
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
6.5
Something of Value
IMDb: 6.5 1957 113 min
As Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a ...
7.2
Edge of the City
IMDb: 7.2 1957 85 min
A male army deserter and a black male dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager, in a corrupt environment, and as their connection ...
6.5
Band of Angels
IMDb: 6.5 1957 125 min
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on ...
7.4
Blackboard Jungle
IMDb: 7.4 1955 101 min
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. ...
6.4
The Red Ball Express
IMDb: 6.4 1952 83 min
August 1944: proceeding with the invasion of France, Patton’s Third Army has advanced so far toward Paris that it cannot be supplied. To ...
7
Cry, the Beloved Country
IMDb: 7 1951 103 min
In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people ...
7.4
No Way Out
IMDb: 7.4 1950 106 min
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.
