June 21, 201016 yr I just finished watching American History X for probably the 20th (Edward Norton is phenominal in it) and it got me thinking... What are other great movies out there that display racial tension/controversy/conflict/etc? I will throw a few out there but would like to hear what ya'll think... American History X Crash Cry Freedom Men of Honor Great Debaters Glory
June 21, 201016 yr Just off the top of my head. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner In the Heat of the Night Malcom X Do the Right Thing A Soldier's Story The Tuskegee Airmen
June 21, 201016 yr Poitier was a pioneer: "Blackboard Jungle" ( my favorite) ; Poitier co-starred with Glen Ford "The Defiant Ones" " To Sir, With Love" " In the Heat of the Night" Also, another favorite: "To Kill a Mockingbird"
June 21, 201016 yr The Birth of a Nation Amistad Snow Falling on Cedars Sounder The Color Purple Bamboozled Crash Schindler's List Ghosts of Mississippi Mississippi Burning Gran Torino Malcolm X A Dry White Season
June 21, 201016 yr Any WWII movie about war in the Pacific. Any Korean War movie. Any Viet Nam War movie. Any Western movie (Cowboys & Indians) (the above list should include thousands of films) Zulu Roots
June 22, 201016 yr Author I love that ya'll listed a bunch of movies...many I forgot about that are very good. Anyone have any discussion on them? lol
June 22, 201016 yr Crash, Brillant movie Mississippi Burning, Great movie. Remember the Titans, dealt quite a bit with school integration, which was a huge issue in many parts of the country. I know these three were already mentioned, but they are three of my favorites.
June 22, 201016 yr In the Heat of the Night with Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier is a great movie. I have it on dvd and watch probably watch it once a month. I love the movie plot. It is about a murder in a Mississippi town. The police look for the killer. They search the train station and mistakenly arrest Poitier because he is black. They check on him and find out he is a homicide detective from Philadelphia. There is a lot of racial overtones in the movie but it shows they can be overcome. The t.v. show didn't do the movie any justice.
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