Top 10 films depicting racism and black enslavement

 Top 10 films depicting racism and black Enslavement 1. The Hate You Give (2018) Starr observes as a police officer fatally shoots Khalil, h...

 Top 10 films depicting racism and black Enslavement

1. The Hate You Give (2018)

Starr observes as a police officer fatally shoots Khalil, her childhood best friend. Starr is currently under siege from all corners of the community and needs to find her voice in order to defend what is right.

2. Judas and the black messiah (2021)

William O'Neal, who was given a plea deal by the FBI, infiltrates the Black Panther Party's Illinois chapter in order to learn more about Chairman Fred Hampton.

3. Queen and Slim (2019)

The first date between Slim and Queen takes an unexpected turn when they are stopped by the police for a minor traffic infraction.

When things get out of hand, Slim steals the officer's gun and defends himself by shooting him. Slim and Queen believe they have no choice but to flee and avoid prosecution because they are now being referred to in the media as cop murderers.

Unwitting outlaws quickly become a national icon of trauma, dread, sadness, and pain when a video of the episode goes online.

4. Get Out (2017)

Rose, Chris's girlfriend, extends an invitation to him for a weekend break upstate with her parents, Missy and Dean, now that they have reached the meet-the-parents stage of dating.

Chris initially interprets the family's overly accommodating actions as anxious attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial romance, but as the weekend goes on, a sequence of progressively unsettling revelations leads him to a truth he could never have anticipated.

5. If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

Tish, a future wife, and daughter, recounts the passion, respect, and trust that bonded her and her artist fiancé Alonzo Hunt, well known by his stage as Fonny, in early 1970s Harlem.

The dedicated couple, who have been friends since they were young children, has dreams of a future together but their plans are upset when Fonny is detained for a crime he did not commit.

6, Django Unchained (2012)

Slave Django (Jamie Foxx) joins Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), an unconventional German bounty hunter, on a mission to apprehend the savage Brittle brothers two years before the American Civil War.

Following the accomplishment of their mission, Schultz releases Django, and the two of them travel in search of the most wanted criminals in the South. They eventually arrive at the notorious Calvin Candie plantation, played by the duplicitous Leonardo DiCaprio, where Django's long-lost wife, Kerry Washington, is still a slave.

7. Selma (2014)

Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 officially ended racial segregation in the South, racism persisted in some regions, making it extremely difficult for Black people to register to vote.

A city in Alabama became the scene of a suffrage dispute in 1965. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as a result of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s (David Oyelowo) and his supporters' perseverance in the face of deadly opposition during their epic march from Selma to Montgomery.

8. 12 years a slave (2013)

A free black man from upstate New York named Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is abducted and sold into slavery in the South in the years leading up to the American Civil War.

He is subjected to the brutality of one evil owner (Michael Fassbender), but he also encounters an unexpected act of generosity from a different owner as he fights to survive and retain part of his dignity.

An accidental encounter with a Canadian abolitionist in the 12th year of the depressing journey ultimately transforms Solomon's life.

9. Glory (1989)

Col. Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick) is given command of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the country's first all-African-American regiment, after the Battle of Antietam.

Shaw assembles a powerful and valiant unit with junior officer Cabot Forbes (Carey Elwes), which includes fugitive slave Trip (Denzel Washington) and sage gravedigger John Rawlins (Morgan Freeman). The regiment battles to be placed in the thick of battle after first being restricted to menial manual labor.

10. Hidden Figures (2016)

The launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning accomplishment that rekindled the nation's confidence, reversed the Space Race, and galvanized the world, was orchestrated by three brilliant African-American women working for NASA: Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. This operation stands as one of the greatest operations in history.

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