Ava DuVernay

Origin 2023

The unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal, Niecy Nash

7.2 IMDB Rating 1,281 Views
Selma 2014

A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Oprah Winfrey

7.5 IMDB Rating 804 Views
DMZ
DMZ 2022–

A civil war breaks out in a futuristic America and Manhattan becomes a demilitarized zone.

Category: Action, Adventure, Drama

Stars: Venus Ariel, Rosario Dawson, Benjamin Bratt

8.9 IMDB Rating 7,745 Views
Queen Sugar 2016–2022

Follows the life of three siblings, one of whom moves from Los Angeles to Louisiana, to claim a shared inheritance from their recently departed father - an 800-acre sugarcane farm.

Category: Drama

Stars: Rutina Wesley, Kofi Siriboe, Omar J. Dorsey

7.8 IMDB Rating 67,448 Views
A Wrinkle in Time 2018

After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.

Category: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Kids

Stars: Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon

4.2 IMDB Rating 7,471 Views
13th 2016

The film begins with the idea that 25 percent of the people in the world who are incarcerated are incarcerated in the U.S. Although the U.S. has just 5% of the world's population. "13th" charts the explosive growth in America's prison population; in 1970, there were about 200,000 prisoners; today, the prison population is more than 2 million. The documentary touches on chattel slavery; D. W. Griffith's film "The Birth of a Nation"; Emmett Till; the civil rights movement; the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Richard M. Nixon; and Ronald Reagan's declaration of the war on drugs and much more.

Category: Crime, Documentary

Stars: Melina Abdullah,Michelle Alexander,Cory Booker,Dolores Canales

8.2 IMDB Rating 4,873 Views
Selma 2014

The unforgettable true story chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Director Ava DuVernay's "Selma" tells the story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: David Oyelowo,Carmen Ejogo,Jim France,Trinity Simone

7.5 IMDB Rating 5,508 Views