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  • Detroit

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    A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens’ uprisings in the history of the United States.

  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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    After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town’s revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother’s boy with a penchant for violence,…

  • Mohawk

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    A young Mohawk woman and her two lovers battle a squad of American soldiers hell-bent on revenge.

  • Mobile Suit Gundam AGE

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    Advanced Generation (A.G.) 101. The space colony Angel is attacked and destroyed by a mysterious “Unknown Enemy” with overwhelming strength. As this “UE” continues its attacks, a boy named Flit Asuno loses his mother when she is caught in the crossfire. Now in A.G. 115, Flit must fight using a new Gundam of his own…

  • Dear White People

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    At a predominantly white Ivy League college, a diverse group of students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.

  • Savages: The Story of Human Zoos

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    For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native lands, on show as entertainment, just like animals in zoos; a shameful, outrageous and savage treatment of people who were considered subhuman.

  • Indian Horse

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    Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.

  • Where Hands Touch

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    Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi soldier, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly changing world.

  • The Hate U Give

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    Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she’s torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

  • BlacKkKlansman

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    Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

  • Green Book

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    Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

  • A League of Their Own

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    In 1943, Carson Shaw travels to Chicago to try out for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. There, she meets other women who also dream of playing pro baseball and makes connections that open up her world. Rockford local Max Chapman also comes to the tryouts but is turned away. With the support of her…

  • Heartbreak High

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    A fresh look at Hartley High over 20 years on. With her new friends – outsiders Quinni and Darren – Amerie must repair her reputation, while navigating love, sex, and heartbreak.

  • Love of My Life

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    The young and fierce daughter of a wealthy landowner falls for a charismatic young laborer—only for their families to tear them apart.

  • Ip Man

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    A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. The film focuses on events surrounding Ip that took place in the city of Foshan between the 1930s to 1940s during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Directed by Wilson Yip, the film stars Donnie Yen in…

  • Lovecraft Country

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    The anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Freeman, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped…

  • The Color Purple

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    A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman’s journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.

  • Killers of the Flower Moon

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    When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

  • Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

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    A hard-on-his-luck hound finds himself in a town full of cats in need of a hero to defend them from a ruthless villain’s wicked plot to wipe their village off the map. With help from a reluctant mentor, our underdog must assume the role of town samurai and team up with the villagers to save…

  • West Side Story

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    Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

  • Antebellum

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    Successful author Veronica finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it’s too late.