The Best Movies About Race 2024

1. Fruitvale Station (Blu-ray)

Filmmaker Ryan Coogler makes his feature directorial debut with this drama centered on the tragic shooting of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), a vibrant 22-year-old Bay Area father who was senselessly gunned down by BART officers on New Years Day in 2009, and whose murder sent shockwaves through the nation after being captured on camera by his fellow passengers.

FRUITVALE STATION Drama TWC R

2. Selma (Blu-ray)

SELMA is the story of a movement. The film 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 (Tom Wilkinson) 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 real story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history.

Selma (Blu-ray)

3. Fences (Blu-ray + Digital Copy), Paramount, Drama

In late-'50s Pittsburgh, middle-aged trashman and one-time Negro Leaguer Troy Maxson (Denzel Washington) remained bitter that he never got his shot... and his lingering resentments might drive a wedge between him and the teenage son (Jovan Adepo) with a legitimate shot at a football scholarship. Washington directs and reprises his Tony-winning performance; August Wilson adapted his Pulitzer Prize-winning play for the screen. Viola Davis, Mykelti Williamson, Russell Hornsby, Saniyya Sidney also star.

FENCES Drama Paramount PG-13

4. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Blu-ray)

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award(r) for Best Actress for her performance) are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katharine Houghton), the beautiful daughter of crusading publisher Matthew Drayton (Tracy) and his patrician wife Christina (Hepburn), returns home with her new fiance John Prentice (Sidney Poitier), a distinguished black doctor. Christina accepts her daughter's decision to marry John, but Matthew is shocked by this interracial union; the doctor's parents are equally dismayed. Both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance. In GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER, director Stanley Kramer has created a masterful study of society's prejudices.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Blu-ray) Sony Pictures Entertainment Not Rated

5. 42 [Blu-ray], Feature, Drama

42 [Blu-ray]

42 Drama Warner Home Video PG-13 Includes Limited Time Digital Movie Offer. MUST ENTER REDEMPTION CODE BY 07/16/2015 TO REDEEM DIGITAL MOVIE OFFER.

6. Hidden Figures (Blu-ray)

As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Based on the unbelievably true life stories of three of these women, known as "human computers", we follow these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history's greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Gobels Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes

HIDDEN FIGURES Drama 20th Century Studios PG

7. 12 Years a Slave (Blu-ray + Digital Code)

From acclaimed director Steve McQueen comes this "deeply evocative and brilliantly acted" film (Claudia Puig, USA Today) based on the true story of Solomon Northup. It is 1841, and Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), an accomplished, free citizen of New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Stripped of his identity and deprived of all dignity, Northup is ultimately purchased by ruthless plantation owner Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender) and must find the strength within to survive. Filled with powerful performances by an astonishing cast that includes Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Pitt and newcomer Lupita Nyongo, 12 YEARS A SLAVE is both an unflinching account of slavery in American history and a celebration of the indomitable power of hope.

12 Years a Slave (Blu-ray) MPAA Rating: R Movie Genre: Drama

8. To Kill a Mockingbird (Blu-ray + Digital Copy)

Experience one of the most significant milestones in film history like never before with To Kill a Mockingbird. Screen legend Gregory Peck stars as courageous Southern lawyer Atticus Finch - the Academy Award-winning performance hailed by the American Film Institute as the Greatest Movie Hero of All Time. Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about innocence, strength and conviction and nominatedfor 8 Academy Awards®, this beloved classic is now digitally remastered and fully restored for optimum picture and sound quality and boasts hours of unforgettable bonus features. Watch it and remember why quot;it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.quot;

To Kill a Mockingbird (Blu-ray + Digital Copy)

9. Do the Right Thing (20th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray]

Do the Right Thing (20th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray]

Title: Do the Right Thing (20th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray] Genre: Feature|Comedy Running length: 120 mins

10. Django Unchained (Blu-ray)

Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Starring Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio.

DJANGO UNCHAINED Western TWC R