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Summary: Tensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.
Runtime: 1 h 34 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.
Runtime: 2 h 32 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 40,000,000
Domestic: $ 75,331,600
International: $ 48,639,776
Summary: The untold true story of the legendary detectives who brought down Bonnie and Clyde.
Runtime: 2 h 12 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 49,000,000
Summary: Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.
Runtime: 2 h 14 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: Chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists.
Release Date: December 05, 2008
Runtime: 1 h 49 min
MPAA: 14A

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 12,000,000
Domestic: $ 8,195,551
International: $ 688,093
Summary: An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
Runtime: 1 h 42 min
MPAA: TV-14

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 15,260,000
Summary: A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.
Runtime: 2 h 06 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 15,000,000
Domestic: $ 30,236,407
International: $ 35,149
Summary: The kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear.
Runtime: 1 h 34 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 37,459,346
Summary: In a run down New York Tenament, a chorine named Orchid lives with her overprotective brother Buddy, who sees to it that no uptown Casanovas get a chance at seducing his sister. At a New Year's Eve party the two are separated in t...
Runtime: 1 h 10 min

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 262,300
Summary: A sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city.
Runtime: 1 h 49 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.
Runtime: 1 h 19 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: A simpleminded, sheltered country boy suddenly decides to leave his family home to experience life in the big city, where his naivete is both his best friend and his worst enemy.
Runtime: 1 h 34 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 73,691,419
Summary: In a desperate attempt to change her life, Loretta -- a troubled single mother from a tough Chicago neighborhood -- is sent to spend a summer at her family's ancestral home in rural Mississippi.
Release Date: December 25, 1998
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 1 h 52 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 5,672,903
Summary: An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
Runtime: 2 h 09 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 800,000
Summary: The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
MPAA: G

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 3,100,601
Summary: A group of down-on-their-luck workers combine their abilities to make a Gallafentian-style commune... and bread!
Runtime: 1 h 20 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 125,000
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: It tells the story of the courageous campaign of citizens and activists who faced violence and oppression in the struggle for the right to vote
Runtime: 1 h 30 min

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 6,603