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Plot Summary:
In the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation-owner brutalizes his slaves to the point of them heaving no other choice but to rebel. Always obedient, peaceful and honest old slave Tom plays a central role in this tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags:
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Badge of the Assassin (1985)
Plot Summary:
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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Born Black (1969)
Plot Summary:
A convoluted roundelay of sexual encounters and unwitting fluid exchanges results in a white woman giving birth to a black baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Female Slaves Revenge (1997)
Plot Summary:
After a slave uprising, 10 black mistresses of a white landowner decide to capture their master after he refuses to turn over his ill-gained wealth.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: political, cult film
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Dragonard (1988)
Plot Summary:
In 1747, a handsome but rebellious Scotsman named Richard Abdee is auctioned off as a slave on a Caribbean island controlled by French and British sugar-planters. When caught having sex with his owner's wife, Abdee is given 100 lashes with the dreaded "dragonard" whip. This sentence is meant to be fatal but Abdee survives and later joins in a slave revolt which puts an end to the island's era of savage whippings.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Union Bound (2016)
Plot Summary:
He went to war to free slaves but in the end was freed by them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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The Journey of August King (1995)
Plot Summary:
The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in 1815. August King, a widower, is on his way home as he does every year after selling his produce and purchasing the stock and goods he will need to survive the winter. On his journey, he comes upon a run-away slave, a young woman about 19 and August King must decide to violate the law and help this slave to freedom or else leave her to be hunted down and, ultimately, returned to her slave owner.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, crying, sexy, touching, brutal, enigmatic, feel good
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Little Senegal (2000)
Plot Summary:
Passionné par l'histoire de son peuple, Alloune, un vieux guide du musée africain "La Maison des Esclaves" à Gorée, part en pèlerinage pour retrouver les descendants de ses ancêtres aux Etats-Unis. Cet émouvant voyage va le mener des côtes de Caroline du Sud au quartier de Harlem où vit la communauté africaine, Little Senegal. Alloune, animé par l'idée de réunir sa famille par delà les siècles et les frontières, remonte jusqu'à une lointaine cousine, Ida, qui ignore tout de son passé. Le vieil homme croise également les chemins de son neveu Hassan, chauffeur de taxi clandestin, de sa fiancée Biram, d'Eileen, enceinte et fugueuse, et de Karim, qui cherche à faire un mariage blanc pour obtenir la carte verte. Tous les quatre comprennent mal la quête d'Alloune.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama
Country: Algeria, France, Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sincere
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Mandinga (1976)
Plot Summary:
An Old South plantation owner lusts after his female slaves.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sensual, surprise ending
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Cecilia (1982)
Plot Summary:
The story of Cecilia is a story of the society that dominated 19th-century Cuba, a society divided between whites, blacks, and those who were mixed, the mulattos. (Since the Spanish conquistadors killed off the Indian population in Cuba not long after they took over the island, there are no mestizos, or those of mixed-Indian blood in Cuba as in other Caribbean nations.) At any rate, the drama about the life and loves of Cecilia (Daisy Granados) takes place against the backdrop of graphically violent mistreatment of slaves and the rumors of a slave rebellion after the Cubans hear of slaves turning against their captors in Haiti.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: Cuba, Spain
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Freedom (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two men separated by 100 years are united in their search for freedom. In 1856 a slave, Samuel Woodward and his family, escape from the Monroe Plantation near Richmond, Virginia. A secret network of ordinary people known as the Underground Railroad guide the family on their journey north to Canada. They are relentlessly pursued by the notorious slave hunter Plimpton. Hunted like a dog and haunted by the unthinkable suffering he and his forbears have endured, Samuel is forced to decide between revenge or freedom. 100 years earlier in 1748, John Newton the Captain of a slave trader sails from Africa with a cargo of slaves, bound for America. On board is Samuel's great grandfather whose survival is tied to the fate of Captain Newton. The voyage changes Newton's life forever and he creates a legacy that will inspire Samuel and the lives of millions for generations to come.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, christian film
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Bitter Tropics (2007)
Plot Summary:
In late 18th-century Martinique, a plantation owner, his irresponsible young aristocratic wife and his beautiful black mistress are drawn into a spiral of violence that reflects all the horror and inhumanity of the perverse relations between masters and slaves.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 312 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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Dog Jack (2010)
Plot Summary:
"Dog Jack" is the story of a slave boy and his dog who escape the master's plantation, join the union army, and have to face their former master on the battlefield. The story is inspired by the historical true-life adventures of the beloved mascot of the Pennsylvania 102nd, who was so prized by his regiment for his skills in battle that he was twice exchanged for a Confederate prisoner of war.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, uplifting, bleak, independent film
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987)
Plot Summary:
The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Slaves (1969)
Plot Summary:
A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sankofa (1993)
Plot Summary:
A self-absorbed Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Africa is spiritually transported back to a plantation in the West Indies where she experiences first-hand the physical and psychic horrors of chattel slavery, and eventually the redemptive power of community and rebellion as she becomes a member of a freedom-seeking Maroon colony.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 784
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Ghana, Burkina Faso, UK, Germany, Ethiopia
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: inspirational, independent film, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing
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Enslavement: The True Story Of Fanny Kemble (2000)
Plot Summary:
Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble fictionalized made-for-TV movie adapted from her Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, starring Jane Seymour and Keith Carradine.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing, period drama
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Roots: The Gift (1988)
Plot Summary:
In December 1775, Cletus Moyer is a free black Northerner in colonial America, helping slaves escape captivity. In the days just prior to Christmas, a group of bounty hunters captures Moyer. Because of his capture, dozens of slaves who have already left their plantations are in danger of being captured as well. Moyer implores two slaves from a nearby plantation to take his place: Kunta Kinte, a Mandinka in his mid-twenties who was captured in what is now Gambia, and Fiddler, an elderly man who was born into slavery. Kunta is eager to help (and to escape himself), but Fiddler is unwilling, fearful of the consequences if they are caught.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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Drum (1976)
Plot Summary:
A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, campy
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Master of Dragonard Hill (1987)
Plot Summary:
In the 18th-century British Caribbean colony of St. Joseph's, decadent and hedonistic aristocrats rule with an iron fist and terrorize slaves and suspected criminals with a painful whip called the "dragonard.".
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
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Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1978)
Plot Summary:
With the land to hold them together, nothing can tear the Logans apart. Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year- the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she is black- to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It is the land that gives the Logans their courage and pride- no matter how others may degrade them, the Logans possess something no one can take away.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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Captive Heart: The James Mink Story (1996)
Plot Summary:
James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An excellent match is arranged with an American businessman, but when he takes his new wife Mary across the border his true character emerges - he sells her into slavery. James and Elizabeth must go to Virginia to rescue their daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, christian film
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The Long Song (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica, we follow the trials, tribulations and survival of plantation slave July and her odious mistress Caroline.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, costume drama, historical drama, period drama
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Beulah Land (1980)
Plot Summary:
This sweeping epic dramatized the lives of two Georgia families during the early-to-mid 1800s: the Kendricks, who resided on the Beulah Land plantation, and the Davises, who owned the Oaks plantation. Both families loved, prospered and lost during this period, and were both touched by the events of the Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 281 min
Plot tags:
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A House Divided (2000)
Plot Summary:
In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Raised by her father and grandmother to be the perfect white Southern Belle, Amanda's true mother was a black slave Julia. Confronted with the forces of greed and bigotry, Amanda has to face not only the hatred of a racist world, but the complex truth of a family whose lives have been built on a lie.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
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Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad (1994)
Plot Summary:
A number of slaves risk their lives to escape their masters with their only help coming from the famous secret slave escape network.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: political, edutainment, sincere, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic
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Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: disturbing, mondo, grindhouse, suspense, creepy, cult classic, twisted, black comedy, dark comedy, rough
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A Woman Called Moses (1978)
Plot Summary:
A film about the life and career of the African American abolitionist and slave escape leader, Harriet Tubman.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: political, tension, suspense
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Aferim! (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, History, Western
Country: Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: road movie, tense, captivating, black and white, exciting, humorous, political, independent film, beautiful
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The Birth of a Nation (2016)
Plot Summary:
Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virgina that results in a violent retaliation from whites.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: factual, brutal, emotional, stylized, intense, controversial, exciting, powerful, gothic, serious
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Nightjohn (1996)
Plot Summary:
Charles Burnett directs this movie about John, a man of many talents, including one forbidden skill: he can read. When he teaches a young slave girl named Sarny to read and write, she learns an unforgettable lesson about the power of words and the true meaning of freedom. A wonderful movie about the power of literacy and the risk it took to educate slaves in the Ante-Bellum South before the heartbreak of the Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, learning