Racial Intolerance
The degradation and maltreatment of people based on their ethnicity or skin colour has plagued the human condition since we first began travelling around the globe. This category includes films and documentaries that explore the consequences of ignorance and intolerance from the large scale horrors of political oppression and genocide ('Rabbit Proof Fence', 'Sometimes in April'), to the personal prejudices that inhibit our growth and development ('American History X', 'Crash').
Sometimes in April (2005)
7.9/10
Director: Raoul Peck
Starring: Idris Elba, Debra Winger, Carole Karemara, Pamela Nomvete, Michelle Rugema
In April 1994 a violent uprising between the Hutus and Tutsis of Rwanda led to one of the darkest periods in African history, and over the next 100 da... Read more
Sorry, Haters (2005)
6.3/10
Director: Jeff Stanzler
Starring: Robin Wright, Abdellatif Kechiche, Elodie Bouchez, Sandra Oh, Fred Durst
This intense and thought-provoking psychological thriller takes a hard look at the relationship between white and Muslim Americans in a post-911 world... Read more
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)
7.5/10
Director: Errol Morris
Master documentarian Errol Morris takes an unflinching look at the Abu Ghraib prison scandal while meditating on the frightening side effects of the '... Read more
Standard Operating Procedure (Blu-ray) (2008)
7.4/10
Director: Errol Morris
Master documentarian Errol Morris takes an unflinching look at the Abu Ghraib prison scandal while meditating on the frightening side effects of the '... Read more
Sweet Country (Blu-Ray) (2017)
7.4/10
Director: Warwick Thornton
Starring: Bryan Brown, Matt Day, Sam Neill, Thomas M Wright, Tremayne Doolan, Anni Finster...
Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a... Read more
Sweet Land (2005)
7.3/10
Director: Ali Selim
Starring: Alan Cumming, John Heard, Ned Beatty, Paul Sand, Tim Guinee, Alex Kingston, Lois...
Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI,... Read more
The Architect (2006)
5.6/10
Director: Matt Tauber
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia, Viola Davis, Isabella Rossellini, Hayden Panettiere, Sebastian...
Anthony LaPaglia plays architect Leo Waters, living an outwardly perfect life in the suburbs, while on the East Side of Chicago the residents in one o... Read more
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
6.7/10
Director: D W Griffith
Starring: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B Walthall
An epic tale of the Civil War which many consider to be the single most important film in the development of cinema as an art. It is a stunning summar... Read more
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
7.4/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Tommy Lewis, Angela Punch McGregor, Jack Thompson, Freddy Reynolds
Jimmie (Tommy Lewis), an Aborigine man of mixed racial heritage, faces prejudice and abuse in 19th-century Australia while performing the lowliest men... Read more
The Color Purple (1985)
7.8/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Adolph Caesar, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery
Steven Spielberg's magnum opus, with Whoopi Goldberg and Danny Glover in an adaptation of Alice Walker's seminal book. A richly-textured, decades-span... Read more