Recommended Films: College
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Feature Films and TV Dramas
Adam's Rib (1949)
Amazing Grace (2006, 2007 U.S.)
Antwone Fisher (2002)
Barbershop (2002)
Birth of a Nation (1915)
Black Like Me (1964)
Black, White and Red All Over (1998)
Born into Brothels (2004)
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Bring It On (2000)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Bullworth (1998)
Calendar Girls (2003)
The Class (2008) *in French with English subtitles
Cry, the Beloved Country (1995, 1951)
Erin Brokovich (2000)
Focus (2001)
Frozen River (2008)
The Front (1976)
Giant (1956)
Gods and Monsters (1998)
Good Morning Vietnam (1987)
Good Night and Good Luck (2005)
Gran Torino (2008)
The Great White Hope (1970)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Guilty by Suspicion (1991)
Gung Ho (1986)
HATE (1996) *in French with English subtitles
The Help (2011)
Hidden Figures (2016)
The Hurricane (2000)
If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
Imitation of Life (1959)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Jasper, Texas (2003)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Kissing Jessica Stein (2002)
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Light It Up (2000)
Loving (2017)
The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Malcolm X (1992)
Mambo Italiano (2003)
MASH (1970)
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
The Namesake (2006)
Norma Rae (1979)
Pat & Mike (1952)
Philadelphia (1993)
The Pianist (2003)
Precious (2009)
Pride (2007)
Pushing Hands (1992)
Rain Man (1988)
The Reader (2008)
Roe vs. Wade (1989)
The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
Rosewood (1997)
Saving Face (2004)
Schindler's List (1993)
Selma (2014)
Separate but Equal (1991)
Something New (2006)
Something the Lord Made (2004)
Talk to Me (2007)
10,000 Black Men Named George (2002)
Transamerica (2005)
Thunderheart (1992)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Tootsie (1982) The Tracker (2002)
12 Angry Men (1957)
12 Years a Slave (2013)
The Voyage of the Damned (1976)
West Side Story (1961)
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene (2008)
America and the Holocaust (1994)
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
Brandon Teena (1998)
The Celluloid Closet (1995)
Chisholm '72: Unbought and Unbossed (2005)
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (2005)
Control Room (2004)
18 in '08 (2008)
Eyes on the Prize I and II (1987 and 1990)
Further off the Straight and Narrow (2007)
God Grew Tired of Us (2006)
Goldwyn (2005)
How to Survive a Plague (2012)
Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story (1992)
Ishi: The Last Yahi (1992)
The Laramie Project (2002)
Life and Debt (2001)
The Long Way Home (1997)
Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot Wars (2005)
On Our Watch (2007)
Oskar Schindler (1997)
Out of the Past (1998)
The Port of Last Resort: Refuge in Shanghai (1998)
Seeing Daylight: Alaska's Tlingit and Their Culture (1996)
Slavery, the Making of America (2004)
Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2003)
Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness (2000)
Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties (2004)
The Wannsee Conference (1984) *in German with English subtitles
What Do You Believe? (2006)
When the Levees Broke (2006)
Wounded Heart: Pine Ridge and the Sioux (2005)
Documentaries