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The film is based on the life of Syracuse University football player Ernie Davis, the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy, portrayed by actor Rob Brown. The Express explores civil rights topics, such as racism, discrimination and athletics. It was the film debut of Chadwick Boseman as Floyd Little. [2]
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
Based on the true story of Shields Green, an African American slave who escaped and participated in abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble: 2000: The film depicts the story of British actress and abolitionist Fanny Kemble, who becomes horrified by the treatment of her husband's enslaved people.
Hell on the Border (2019) – Western biographical film based on the true story of Bass Reeves, the first African-American deputy U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi River. [94] The Highwaymen (2019) – historical crime thriller film about two former Texas Rangers who attempt to track down and apprehend notorious criminals Bonnie and Clyde in ...
The 24th is based on the true story of the Houston riot of 1917. The film features an African American (A.K.A. Buffalo Soldiers) military unit, the 24th Infantry Regiment in Houston, Texas. Despite their military service, the African American soldiers are subjected to racial discrimination by the all-white police force in Houston as well as ...
Jasper, Texas is a 2003 American made-for-television drama film directed by Jeffrey W. Byrd.The teleplay by Jonathan Estrin is based on a true story and focuses on the aftermath of a crime in which three white men from the small town of Jasper, Texas, killed African American James Byrd Jr. by dragging him behind their pickup truck.
The Banker is a 2020 American period drama film directed, co-written and produced by George Nolfi. The film stars Anthony Mackie, Nicholas Hoult, Nia Long, Jessie T. Usher and Samuel L. Jackson. The story follows Joe Morris (Jackson) and Bernard Garrett (Mackie), two of the first African-American bankers in the United States.
Skin is a 2008 biographical drama film directed by Anthony Fabian.It is based on the book When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race by Judith Stone, [1] and the life of Sandra Laing, a South African woman born to white parents, who was classified as "Coloured" during the apartheid era, presumably due to a genetic case of atavism.