Check out all of the posts tagged with "civil rights".
Director John Korty’s triumphant 1974 TV movie The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, based on the novel by Ernest J Gaines, is classic television. Cicely Tyson stars in the lead role as Jane Pittman, along […]
Director Spike Lee’s ambitious, lengthy but fast-paced 1992 biopic of the Sixties black activist is given special distinction by Denzel Washington’s Oscar-nominated star tour de force performance, full of power, passion and dignity. Malcolm X […]
Writer-director Ron Shelton’s 1989 biographical drama stars Paul Newman as Earl Long, the stubborn and eccentric 1950s governor of Louisiana who brings his stripper girlfriend Blaze Starr (Lolita Davidovich) on to the hustings with him […]
Director Alan Parker’s burning 1988 thriller stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as FBI agents with greatly conflicting styles investigating suspected Ku Klux Klan murders of three young civil rights activists in the American Deep South […]
It’s taken 100 years for a film about the Suffragette movement to reach the cinema screen. So, better make the most of it, now it’s here. We might have hoped for a biopic of the main […]
Director John Waters’s 1988 hit Hairspray is his breakthrough movie, finally leaving micro-budget shockers behind an going for the mainstream. Who’d have thought, a John Waters movie with a PG certificate! It’s a fabulously campy, […]
One man’s tenure as a butler at the White House, as the civil rights movement, Vietnam and other major events affect his life, family and American society, makes for a good, meaty subject. But Lee Daniels’s […]
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