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Racism Movies

Name: Racism Movies
Creator: TMDB / IMDB

Films confronting racism and discrimination — stories that challenge, educate, and move.

Racism Movies is a structured movies dataset with 37 entries. Its fields include Title, Year, Director. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.

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Source:TMDB / IMDB

Updated:3/8/2026

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Dataset details

Table scope: All 37 rows
Fields: 8 columns
Source: TMDB / IMDB
Data updated: Mar 8, 2026

Included fields: Title, Year, Director, IMDB Rating, Genre, and 3 more.

The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.

Preview observations

Year span: 1961 to 2023; Across 37 preview rows
IMDB Rating range: 6.5 to 8.3; Across 37 preview rows

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
American History X	1998	Tony Kaye	8.3	Drama	United States of America	119	Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throug...
Django Unchained	2012	Quentin Tarantino	8.2	Drama, Western	United States of America	165	With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Green Book	2018	Peter Farrelly	8.2	Drama, Comedy, History	United States of America	130	Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.
The Help	2011	Tate Taylor	8.2	Drama	United States of America	146	Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eug...
La Haine	1995	Mathieu Kassovitz	8.1	Drama	France	98	After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.
The Hate U Give	2018	George Tillman Jr.	8.1	Crime, Drama	United States of America	133	Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.
Bound by Honor	1993	Taylor Hackford	8.1	Crime, Action, Drama, Thriller	United States of America	180	Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influ...
Hidden Figures	2016	Theodore Melfi	8	Drama, History	United States of America	127	The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race ...
To Kill a Mockingbird	1962	Robert Mulligan	8	Drama	United States of America	129	Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson agains...
Just Mercy	2019	Destin Daniel Cretton	7.9	Drama, Crime, History	United States of America	137	The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked aga...
Freedom Writers	2007	Richard LaGravenese	7.9	Crime, Drama	Germany	123	A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
Straight Outta Compton	2015	F. Gary Gray	7.8	Drama, Music, History	United Kingdom	147	In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of ho...
Do the Right Thing	1989	Spike Lee	7.8	Drama	United States of America	120	Sal is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall become...
Mississippi Burning	1988	Alan Parker	7.7	Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller	United States of America	128	Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
In the Heat of the Night	1967	Norman Jewison	7.7	Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller	United States of America	109	African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real kille...
Remember the Titans	2000	Boaz Yakin	7.6	Drama	United States of America	113	After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.
The Banker	2020	George Nolfi	7.6	Drama	United States of America	120	In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.
BlacKkKlansman	2018	Spike Lee	7.5	Crime, Comedy, Drama, History	United States of America	136	Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
Glory	1989	Edward Zwick	7.5	Drama, History, War	United States of America	122	Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
Killers of the Flower Moon	2023	Martin Scorsese	7.4	Crime, History, Drama	United States of America	206	When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
A Time to Kill	1996	Joel Schumacher	7.4	Crime, Drama, Thriller	United States of America	149	A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Fruitvale Station	2013	Ryan Coogler	7.4	Drama	United States of America	82	Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.
Mudbound	2017	Dee Rees	7.4	Drama	United States of America	135	In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
The Butler	2013	Lee Daniels	7.3	Drama	United States of America	132	Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself...
Detroit	2017	Kathryn Bigelow	7.3	Drama, Thriller, History	United States of America	143	A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.
Race	2016	Stephen Hopkins	7.3	Drama, History	Canada	134	Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
American Fiction	2023	Cord Jefferson	7.3	Comedy, Drama	United States of America	117	A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
Invictus	2009	Clint Eastwood	7.2	Drama, History	United States of America	134	Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 19...
Crash	2005	Paul Haggis	7.2	Drama	United States of America	112	In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.
West Side Story	1961	Jerome Robbins	7.2	Crime, Drama, Romance	United States of America	153	In Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.
42	2013	Brian Helgeland	7.2	Drama	United States of America	128	In 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball facing unabashed racism from the public, the press and other players.
Driving Miss Daisy	1989	Bruce Beresford	7.2	Drama	United States of America	99	The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters, in a time when those types of relationships were shunned.
Escape from Pretoria	2020	Francis Annan	7.2	Drama, History, Thriller	Australia	102	South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.
Fences	2016	Denzel Washington	6.9	Drama	Canada	139	In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.
West Side Story	2021	Steven Spielberg	6.9	Drama, Romance, Crime	United States of America	156	Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
Monster's Ball	2001	Marc Forster	6.8	Drama, Romance	United States of America	113	A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he presided over.
Imperium	2016	Daniel Ragussis	6.5	Crime, Drama	United States of America	109	Nate Foster, a young, idealistic FBI agent, goes undercover to take down a radical white supremacy terrorist group. The bright up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of sticking to a new identity while maintaining his real principles as he navigates the dangerous underworld of white su...

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This dataset contains 37 entries, and every row is available in the table and in the downloadable files.

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Racism Movies

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