Racial Tension Movies

Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.

An enigmatic man returns to his Alabama hometown as his sister is dying of cancer and incites the suspicion of notable town officials.

An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil.

Ajami is an area of Tel Aviv in Israel where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians live together in a tense atmosphere. Omar, an Israeli Arab,...

Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease...

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

Their town always had two proms, one for the whites and one for the blacks. When both proms wanted the same DJ, Brianna McCallister suggested...

In THE COLOR OF FEAR, eight American men participated in emotionally charged discussions of racism. In this sequel, we hear and see more from those...

Director Steve James returns to his home town of Hampton, Virginia to tell the story of how the trial of a young basketball star left a city divided.

A trio of soldiers vow revenge on their platoon when they are left behind enemy lines. When they come across a missing contingent in a Vietnamese...

Diversity trainer Lee Mun Wah assembles a diverse group of eight American men to talk about their experience of race relations in the United States....

A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody...

A successful African American businessman has a quarrel with a white policeman, suspecting that he is having an affair with his wife. The policeman's...

Indian (Sohail Khan), or I, as he goes by, is distraught when he must move to London with his father in order to live with the rest of his family,...

An analysis of the rise of the European far-right, increasingly present in both politics and everyday life: an inquisitive journey through France,...

Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake.

James Earl Jones narrates this examination of the historical relationship between American Indians and African-Americans, who often merged their...

After a series of personal and professional setbacks, a white advertising executive signs up to participate in a trial for an experimental drug...

In 1962 in Montgomery, Alabama, State Attorney Richmond Flowers, Sr. is one of few willing to fight racial injustices even if it costs him his...

An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.