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The Birth of a Nation
The film dramatizes the rise of the Ku Klux Klan as "saviors" of a civil society, and the main black characters are played by whites in blackface. -
Gone with the Wind
The film features a slave nursemaid as a prominent supporting character; the actor Hattie McDaniel made history with an Academy Award win of her portrayal. -
Goodbye Uncle Tom
Addio Zio Tom is a pseudo-documentary in which the filmmakers go back in time and visit antebellum America, using period documents to examine, in graphic detail, the racist ideology and degrading conditions faced by Africans under slavery. -
The Legend of Nigger Charley
The blaxploitation film film takes place in America in the Ante-Bellum South. It follows three slaves seeking their freedom. -
Mandingo
On a plantation in 19th-century United States, the owner sleeps with a young slave. Another slave sleeps with the owner's wife in payback, and things escalate. -
Drum
The film, a sequel to Mandingo, features a black slave who falls in love with a plantation owner's daughter. When the owner threatens castration, the slave plans a revolt. -
Roots
The TV film is based on Alex Haley's biography about his family moving from slavery to liberation. -
Solomon Northup's Odyssey
The film is based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped in Washington, DC in 1841 and sold into slavery. -
Glory
During the American Civil War, an escaped slave joins an all-black fighting unit of the Union Army. December 14, 1989 -
Brother Future
Brother Future is a science fiction movie. A street kid from Detroit, Michigan, is hit by a car; when he awakes, he finds himself a slave in South Carolina in 1822. The boy then has to help his fellow slaves so that he can return to his own time. -
Sankofa
In the supernatural film, a black American model travels to Ghana and is transported back in time by a local mystic. The model finds herself a slave in the past. -
Jefferson in Paris
The film shows the relationship between Thomas Jefferson, who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a slave owner, and Sally Hemings, a black slave. March 31, 1995 -
Amistad
In the 19th century, a slave revolt takes place on a Spanish ship heading to Cuba. Two white survivors navigate the ship to the United States instead of Africa as planned, and the slaves fight for their freedom in court. -
Beloved
A former slave experiences flashbacks to her past as a slave. -
Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
The film depicts the story of British actress and abolitionist Fanny Kemble, who becomes horrified by the treatment of her husband's enslaved people. Fanny later publishes her journals and their first-hand accounts of slavery, helping influence the British government's decision to withhold support of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. -
Manderlay
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Lincoln
During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln pushes to abolish slavery from the United States. -
Django Unchained
In the American South in 1858, a slave is purchased by a German dentist and bounty hunter and agrees to help him track down a small group of dangerous outlaws in exchange for his freedom and the rescuing of his wife from a cruel plantation owner. -
Something Whispered / Carry Me Home
In the United States in the 1850s, a black man attempts to free his family from a tobacco plantation. -
Tula: The Revolt
In 1795 on Curaçao, then a Dutch colony, a slave uprising takes place. -
Savannah
The film, loosely based on the book Ducks, Dogs and Friends, is about a white hunter who befriends a freed slave. -
Belle
In the 1700s, a mixed-race girl falls in love with a man fighting for slave emancipation. -
12 Years a Slave
The film is based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped in Washington, DC in 1841 and sold into slavery. -
The North Star
The film is based on "the true story of Big Ben Jones, a slave who escaped from a Southern plantation in 1848 and is helped by local Quakers".
