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1. Do the Right Thing (1989)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson
Votes: 112,926 | Gross: $27.55M
2. Lean on Me (1989)
PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama
The dedicated but tyrannical Joe Clark is appointed the principal of a decaying inner-city school he is determined to improve by any and all means.
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Beverly Todd, Robert Guillaume, Alan North
Votes: 23,034 | Gross: $31.91M
3. Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
Approved | 106 min | Comedy
All about the citizens of Putnam's Landing and their reactions to an Army missile base in their backyard.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins, Jack Carson
Votes: 1,378
4. Marianne & Juliane (1981)
106 min | Drama
Two sisters both fight for women's rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live.
Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rüdiger Vogler, Doris Schade
Votes: 2,641
5. Choose Connor (2007)
Unrated | 109 min | Drama
Idealistic 15-year old Owen gets the chance of a lifetime to be the youth spokesman for U.S. Senate Candidate Lawrence Connor, only to be exploited in a fierce campaign of TV and radio ads,... See full summary »
Director: Lucas Elliot Eberl | Stars: Darin Cooper, Christopher Rodriguez Marquette, Alex D. Linz, James Runcorn
Votes: 331 | Gross: $0.01M
6. I Married a Doctor (1936)
Passed | 83 min | Drama, Romance
When small-town doctor Will P. Kennicott marries Carol, a Chicago woman, the townspeople are displeased that he has married an outsider. Carol is determined to make friends, but the town's ... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Josephine Hutchinson, Ross Alexander, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 123
7. Power Trip (2003)
Unrated | 86 min | Documentary
Corruption, assassination and street rioting surround the story of the award-winning film, Power Trip, which follows an American multi-national trying to solve the electricity crisis in ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Devlin | Stars: Dennis Bakke, Piers Lewis, Butch Mederos, Bill O'Reilly
Votes: 230 | Gross: $0.04M
8. Classified X (2007 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 53 min | Documentary
A history of the racially stereotyped portrayal of African Americans in cinema.
Director: Mark Daniels | Stars: Melvin Van Peebles, Margaret Barker, Joanna Barnes, Ethel Barrymore
Votes: 254 | Gross: $0.00M
9. Have You Heard from Johannesburg: The Bottom Line (2010)
86 min | Documentary
The theme of the sixth story of seven is money: how a grassroots movement cuts the South African government off from the taproot of its success, its sustaining financial connections to the ... See full summary »
Director: Connie Field | Stars: Shadi Chauke, Tony Bloom, Sampie Terreblanche, Cheryl Carolus
Votes: 12
10. Squat! (2002)
82 min | Documentary
For two months during the summer 2001 mayoral campaign, a group of protesters occupy an abandoned building in order to draw attention to the housing crisis in Montréal.
Director: Ève Lamont | Star: Mathieu Grondin
Votes: 10
11. Untitled Martin Luther King Jr. Project
Biography, Drama | Announced
The life story of legendary civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
12. Climate of Change (2010)
TV-G | 86 min | Documentary
A documentary focused on the efforts of everyday people all over the world who are making a difference in the fight against global warming.
Director: Brian Hill | Star: Tilda Swinton
Votes: 63
13. Between Hell and Paradise (2017)
15 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
A family settles in a picturesque place. Next, a living monster grows next to their house: a 60-meter-high burning slag-heap, an ecological bomb. The fight for their rights brings them to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
Directors: Vyacheslav Bihun, Dmytro Tiazhlov | Stars: Alla Vakiv, Yaryna Ostapyk, Nazar Kulchytskyy, Yelyzaveta Alekseyeva
Votes: 94
14. Have You Heard from Johannesburg: Hell of a Job (2010)
57 min | Documentary
In part two of this seven part series Oliver Tambo is sent abroad to run the ANC after it is banned in South Africa in 1960. This episode traces Tambo's efforts to bring the injustice of ... See full summary »
Director: Connie Field | Stars: Shadi Chauke, Oliver Tambo, Ronald Segal, Frene Ginwala
Votes: 13
15. Have You Heard from Johannesburg: Road to Resistance (2010)
65 min | Documentary
This first story in a seven part series covers almost twenty years of history. It is a story of escalating violence and repression, one nation on a collision course with the rest of the ... See full summary »
Director: Connie Field | Stars: Shadi Chauke, F.W. de Klerk, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu
Votes: 13
16. Penalty of Justice (2013)
14 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Life is wonderful until one day the sportsman is brutalized, falling a victim to a corrupt criminal justice system. Not giving up, he seeks justice at the European Court of Human Rights.
Director: Vyacheslav Bihun | Stars: Bohdan Savitskyy, Roman Kotyk, Tetyana Zhuravel
Votes: 140
18. Smash the Kitty (2003)
16 min | Short, Comedy
A satirical fable on the clash of rural idealism and urban amorality, exemplified by a recklessly ambitious newspaper intern. The conniving small-town would-be reporter ultimately commits a... See full summary »
Director: Brian David Cange | Stars: Hedley Harlan, Jason Ritter, Jon Avner, Michael Locascio
Votes: 27
19. Oulu Burning: Town That Vanished (1998)
58 min | Documentary
Documentary describing the curious tendency of old historic buildings to burn in the city of Oulu.
Director: Mika Ronkainen
Votes: 13
20.
Biography (1987– )
Episode:
Marlon Brando: The Agony of Genius
(2005)
TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History
The life and times of legend icon Marlon Brando, who known for his performance in "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Guys and Dolls", "On the Waterfront" and "The Godfather" and his family tragedy.
Stars: Patricia Bosworth, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Benicio Del Toro
Votes: 186