Civil Rights Movies

A collection of movies on Civil Rights.

King - King was a mini-series about the great leader that starred Paul Winfield as MLK, Cicely Tyson as Coretta and Ossie Davis as Martin Luther King Sr. JFK, Malcolm X and J. Edgar Hoover were also portrayed in the movie. (Photo: MGM Pictures)

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King - King was a mini-series about the great leader that starred Paul Winfield as MLK, Cicely Tyson as Coretta and Ossie Davis as Martin Luther King Sr. JFK, Malcolm X and J. Edgar Hoover were also portrayed in the movie. (Photo: MGM Pictures)

Malcolm X (1992) - “We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us!” — Denzel Washington as Malcolm X(Photo: Courtesy 40 Acres/A Mule Filmworks)

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Malcolm X - Malcolm X was directed by Spike Lee and starred Denzel Washington in an epic performance that covered the 40 years of Malcolm's life. Angela Bassett also gave a compelling perfomance as Malcolm's wife, Betty Shabazz. (Photo: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks)

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - Sidney Poitier stars as a Black doctor who becomes engaged to a wealthy white woman in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. When the film came out, marriage between Black people and white people was illegal in 17 states. (Photo: Columbia Pictures)

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To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee's novel, which is required reading for middle schoolers everywhere, was turned into a big screen classic by director Robert Mulligan and actor Gregory Peck. AFI named this triple-Oscar winning film one of the greatest American movies of all time. (Photo: Universal Pictures)

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To Kill a Mockingbird - Gregory Peck starred as Atticus Finch, a lawyer defending a Black man charged with rape in To Kill a Mockingbird. The film dealt with the racism and injustice that African-Americans went through in the South during the '50s and '60s. (Photo: Universal Pictures)

Mississippi Burning - Mississippi Burning tells the story of the murder of  three civil rights activists and the investigation of their killings. The movie shows the brutality of the KKK and the corruption of the police and communities that supported them. (Photo: Orion Pictures Corporation)

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Mississippi Burning - Mississippi Burning tells the story of the murder of  three civil rights activists and the investigation of their killings. The movie shows the brutality of the KKK and the corruption of the police and communities that supported them. (Photo: Orion Pictures Corporation)

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Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) - This drama was based on the the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith, the white supremacist accused of the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers. Whoopi Goldberg played Medgar's widow Myrlie Evers, who gets Beckwith (James Woods) tried — for his third time — and finally convicted for her husband's murder.  (Photo: Castle Rock Entertainment)

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Ghosts of Mississippi - Ghosts of Mississippi tells the story of the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers and the trial of his murderer 31 years later. Whoopi Goldberg starred as Myrlie Evers, the slain leader's wife. (Photo: Castle Rock Entertainment)

Boycott - Boycott tells the story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which brought cvil rights leader Martin Luther King into prominence. Jeffrey Wright starred as King with Terrence Howard playing fellow civil rights activist Ralph Abernathy. (Photo: HBO Films)

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Boycott - Jeffrey Wright played Martin Luther King Jr. in Boycott, an HBO miniseries about the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955. The film was directed by The Wire's Clark Johnson and also starred Terrence Howard as civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy. (Photo: HBO Films)

The Rosa Park Story, Tuesday at 8A/7C - Angela Bassett's not falling for anything. Take a look at these other Black History films.(Photo: Chotzen/Jenner Productions)

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The Rosa Parks Story - Angela Bassett starred as the civil rights legend in The Rosa Parks Story, which also featured Cicely Tyson as Rosa's mother and Dexter Scott King playing his real-life father Martin. (Photo: Chotzen/Jenner Productions)

The Long Walk Home (1990) - Did you know?: Initially this film was supposed to be directed by John Bailey.  (Photo: New Vision Films)

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The Long Walk Home - The Long Walk Home is another movie about the Montgomery Bus Boycott and starred Whoopi Goldberg as a maid who walks to work during the boycott. (Photo: New Visions Pictures)

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The Ernest Green Story - The Ernest Green Story told the story of the Little Rock Nine, the first African-American students to integrate Little Rock High School in Arkansas in 1957. Green, played by Morris Chestnut, was one of the Little Rock Nine and would go on to be Assistant Secretary of Labor for President Jimmy Carter. (Photo: Walt Disney Television)

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The Ernest Green Story - The Ernest Green Story told the story of the Little Rock Nine, the first African-American students to integrate Little Rock High School in Arkansas in 1957. Green, played by Morris Chestnut, was one of the Little Rock Nine and would go on to be Assistant Secretary of Labor for President Jimmy Carter. (Photo: Walt Disney Television)

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Ruby Bridges - Ruby Bridges is about and is named for the first African-American student to integrate the New Orleans school system. The racism and hatred that 10-year-old Bridges dealt with is immortalized in the Norman Rockwell painting The Problem We All Live With. (Photo: Walt Disney Television)

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The Ruby Bridges Story - The Ruby Bridges Story told the tale of the first Black child to attend an all white school in the South. Bridges was famously immortalized in Norman Rockwell's painting The Problem We All Live With. (Photo: Walt Disney Television)

The Help - This acclaimed Best Movie nominee takes a controversial look at racism in the early '60s in the South via an all-star ensemble that includes Emma Stone and Best Actress nominee Viola Davis. (Photo: Courtesy Dreamworks)

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The Help - The Help tells the story of African-American maids working in Jackson, Mississippi, and the white writer who told their story. The movies starred Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Cicely Tyson as two of the maids. (Photo: DreamWorks SKG)

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The Secret Life of Bees, Friday at 12P/1C - Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson are teaching Dakota Fanning the language of womanhood. (Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures)

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The Secret Lives of Bees - Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah and Alicia Keys stared in The Secret Lives of Bees, a tale of a young white girl who becomes aware of her history and the struggle of African-Americans in South Carolina during the '60s. (Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Something the Lord Made - In Something the Lord Made, Mos Def stars as African-American cardiac medicine pioneer Vivien Thomas, who helped Dr. Alfred Blalock develop modern heart surgery. Despite his medical skills, Thomas still faced the same harsh treatment of segregation. (Photo: HBO)

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Something the Lord Made - In Something the Lord Made, Mos Def stars as African-American cardiac medicine pioneer Vivien Thomas, who helped Dr. Alfred Blalock develop modern heart surgery. Despite his medical skills, Thomas still faced the same harsh treatment of segregation. (Photo: HBO)

Talk to Me - Don Cheadle and Chiwetel Ejiofor take it to the top! Premieres Thursday at 11A/10C.(Photo:  Focus Features)

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Talk to Me - Talk to Me starred Don Cheadle as Petey Greene, a radio host and political activist in Washington, D.C. In one of the films most poignant moments, Greene calms an angry crowd down after the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. (Photo: Focus Features)

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Glory Road, Saturday at 5:30P/4:30C - Derek Luke's ready to lead his team to victory. See other Black actors who showed off their athletic skills in film. Encore presentation on Sunday at 1P/12C.(Photo: Walt Disney Pictures)

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Glory Road - Glory Road was about the 1966 Texas Western College basketball team that became the first team with an all-Black line up to win an NCAA Basketball Championship. (Photo: Walt Disney Pictures)

When We Were Colored - When We Were Colored starred Phlyicia Rashad and told the story of a family terrorized by the Ku Klux Klan and dehumanized by segregation in the 1950s and the migration North many Black people in the South underwent. (Photo: BET Pictures)

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When We Were Colored - When We Were Colored starred Phlyicia Rashad and told the story of a family terrorized by the Ku Klux Klan and dehumanized by segregation in the 1950s and the migration North many Black people in the South underwent. (Photo: BET Pictures)

A Raisin in the Sun - Sanaa Lathan, Phylicia Rashad and Sean "P Diddy" Combs starred in the TV adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, a tale about a family on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s trying to make it.  (Photo: Sony Pictures Television)

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A Raisin in the Sun - Sanaa Lathan, Phylicia Rashad and Sean "P Diddy" Combs starred in the TV adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, a tale about a family on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s trying to make it.  (Photo: Sony Pictures Television)