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Summary: The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.
Runtime: 2 h 07 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 25,000,000
Domestic: $ 169,607,287
International: $ 66,349,611
Summary: An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
Runtime: 1 h 40 min
MPAA: TV-MA

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Runtime: 2 h 14 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 20,000,000
Domestic: $ 56,671,993
International: $ 131,061,209
Summary: In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end.
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Genres: Drama, History
Runtime: 1 h 46 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 14,000,000
Domestic: $ 4,702,420
International: $ 27,269,676
Summary: The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klu...
Runtime: 3 h 15 min
MPAA: TV-PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 110,000
Summary: Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.
Runtime: 1 h 37 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 4,873,620
Summary: The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil.
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
MPAA: PG-13

Movie budget: $ 14,000,000
Domestic: $ 3,902,185
International: $ 10,557,145
Summary: Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.
Runtime: 2 h 23 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 34,000,000
Domestic: $ 16,790,139
International: $ 6,564,961
Summary: Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: TV-PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legal...
Runtime: 2 h 35 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 36,000,000
Domestic: $ 44,229,441
Summary: Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration.
Runtime: 2 h 13 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 10,205,616
International: $ 4,197
Summary: Offered a plea deal by the FBI, William O'Neal infiltrates the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party to gather intelligence on Chairman Fred Hampton.
Runtime: 2 h 06 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 26,000,000
Domestic: $ 5,478,009
International: $ 2,000,000
Summary: Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.
Runtime: 2 h 08 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 15,000,000
Domestic: $ 34,603,943
Summary: Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
Runtime: 1 h 33 min
MPAA: PG-13

Domestic: $ 7,123,919
International: $ 1,221,379
Summary: South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the Black anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko.
Runtime: 2 h 37 min
MPAA: PG

Movie budget: $ 29,000,000
Domestic: $ 5,899,797
Summary: Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.
Runtime: 3 h 22 min
MPAA: PG-13

Countries: United States, Japan
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 33,000,000
Domestic: $ 48,169,910
Summary: A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
Release Date: January 09, 2015
Runtime: 2 h 08 min
MPAA: PG-13

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000
Domestic: $ 52,076,908
International: $ 15,705,854
Summary: Lyndon B. Johnson aligns himself with John F. Kennedy, rises to the Presidency, and deals with the civil rights struggles of the 1960s.
Runtime: 1 h 38 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 26,000,000
Domestic: $ 2,470,979
International: $ 39,172
Summary: The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.
Runtime: 1 h 28 min

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,500,000
Domestic: $ 820,300
International: $ 272,641
Summary: When a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan opens in a South Carolina town, the idealistic Reverend Kennedy strives to keep the peace even as he urges the group's Grand Dragon to disavow his racist past.
Runtime: 1 h 57 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 139,270
International: $ 310,919