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Neurotic white woman Lula (Shirley Knight) humiliates black New Yorker Clay (Al Freeman Jr) on a subway train, in director Anthony Harvey’s 1966 drama Dutchman, a riveting, intensely played version of LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)’s […]
Melvin Van Peebles writes, scores, edits, directs, produces and stars in the 1971 action crime drama Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song. Melvin Van Peebles is the whole show as Sweetback, a cool guy on the […]
Claude Rains stars in the 1937 film noir mystery drama They Won’t Forget as a racist prosecuting attorney, who manipulates the press and Southern prejudice to gain election as governor after a teenager (Lana Turner, […]
Esteemed cult writer director Samuel Fuller delivers an uncomfortable but rivetingly intriguing 1982 thriller, in which Kristy McNichol stars as Julie Sawyer, an actress who unwittingly takes in a white German Shepherd dog trained to […]
Producer-writer-director D W Griffith’s racist 1915 silent movie landmark tale of two families during and after the American Civil War is the American cinema’s first epic and it can still exert a strong hold on […]
Producer-director Roger Corman’s provocative and harrowing 1962 drama stars William Shatner as white-suited fervent habitual racist Adam Cramer, who comes into Southern American towns inciting racism and revolt over enforced school integration. But, as violence escalates, a […]
Based on Pete Dexter’s novel, director Stephen Gyllenhaal’s opulently filmed 1991 Deep South thriller, set in a small Georgia town in the 1950s, is a savage and uncomfortable experience. It concedes centre stage to Dennis Hopper’s […]