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Six Triple Eight

U.S. 2024. History by Tyler Perry with Kerry Washington, Ebony Obsidian, Milauna Jackson. In 1943, 855 African-American women were drafted into the army to deliver mail that had been three years overdue.

Runtime: 127 min.

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Sidney

U.S. 2022. Documentary by Reginald Hudlin. The life and career of Sidney Poitier, the first African-American performer to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Runtime: 106 min.

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A Wrinkle in Time

U.S. 2018. Fantasy by Ava DuVernay with Storm Reid, Deric McCabe, Oprah Winfrey. With her little brother and their new friend, a teenage girl goes in search of her scientist father, who disappeared four years earlier in another space-time continuum.

Runtime: 109 min.

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The Star

U.S. 2017. Animation by Timothy Reckart. A donkey from Nazareth escorts the carpenter Joseph and his pregnant wife Mary to Bethlehem, chased by a henchman of King Herod.

Runtime: 86 min.

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

U.S. 2017. Drama by George C. Wolfe with Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne, Renée Elise Goldsberry. African-American Deborah Lacks discovers that in 1951, her mother Henrietta’s cancer cells, taken without her knowledge, helped save lives.

Runtime: 94 min.

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Selma

U.S. 2014. History by Ava DuVernay with David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Carmen Ejogo. In 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. took part in a peaceful march for unrestricted voting rights for Black citizens.

Runtime: 122 min.

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Lee Daniels' The Butler

U.S. 2013. Biography by Lee Daniels with Forest Whitaker, David Oyelowo, Oprah Winfrey. From 1957 to 1986, the life of a dedicated African-American butler who worked in the White House under the successive administrations of seven presidents.

Runtime: 132 min.

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Charlotte's Web

U.S. 2006. Fantasy comedy by Gary Winick with Dakota Fanning, Kevin Anderson, Essie Davis. A little girl and a clever spider work together to save a piglet from being turned into bacon.

Runtime: 97 min.

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Beloved

U.S. 1998. Psychological drama by Jonathan Demme with Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandiwe Newton. In 1873, a former slave who lives in Ohio with her daughter and her lover is haunted by the tragic events from her past.

Runtime: 172 min.

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Before Women Had Wings

U.S. 1997. Psychological drama by Lloyd Kramer with Oprah Winfrey, Ellen Barkin, Tina Majorino. An African-American woman sympathizes with a little girl who suffers from her mother's alcoholism and her father's suicide.

Runtime: 88 min.

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There Are No Children Here

U.S. 1993. Social drama by Anita W. Addison with Oprah Winfrey, Keith David, Mark Lane. A Chicago mother struggles to keep her two young children from falling into delinquency like her eldest child.

Runtime: 120 min.

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The Women of Brewster Place

U.S. 1989. Social drama by Donna Deitch with Oprah Winfrey, Mary Alice, Olivia Cole. Young Black women experiencing various social problems decide to live in the same house.

Runtime: 200 min.

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Native Son

U.S. 1986. Drama by Jerrold Freedman with Victor Love, Matt Dillon, Carroll Baker. A wealthy family's chauffeur accidentally kills the daughter of the family and attempts to dispose of the body.

Runtime: 111 min.

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The Color Purple

U.S. 1985. Mores drama by Steven Spielberg with Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Danny Glover. The tribulations of a young Black woman offered in marriage to a widowed farmer who treats her as a servant.

Runtime: 154 min.