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The Vernon Johns Story (1994)
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1948, Johns served as the outspoken spiritual leader of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Incensed at the racial injustice that pervaded the South, he was determined to fight for equality for all African Americans.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing
Plot:
racism, civil rights, revolutionary, church, racial violence, heroes, military, life is a bitch, interracial relations, rebellion, injustice, fighting the system, society, clergy, hopes, state affairs, workplace situations, rape, militant, death, murder, family relations, african american, father daughter relationship, segregation ...
Time:
50s, 1950s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, thought provoking and captivating films with plots about society, life is a bitch, rebellion, fighting the system, hopes, state affairs and injustice mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like The Vernon Johns Story: The Rosa Parks Story (2002), Freedom Song (2000), King (1978), The Least Among You (2009), Son of the South (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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The story of the civil rights heroine whose refusal to obey racial bus segregation was just one of her acts in her fight for justice.
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 112 min.
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Freedom Song (2000) is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle of African Americans to register to vote in the fictional town of Quinlan. In the midst of ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 271 min.
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A 1978 TV miniseries about the career of Martin Luther King Jr. from his days as a Baptist minister in Atlanta in the early '50s until his assassination in 1968.
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captivating, thought provoking, realistic, serious, sincere ...
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civil rights, racism, african american, american history, president, blaxploitation, black man, revolutionary, liberation theology, church, politics, assassination ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
memphis, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Black college graduate Richard Kelly reluctantly accepts a plea bargain requiring him to spend two semesters at an all-white seminary after he's wrongly accused of crimes committed during the 1965 Watts riots. Facing bigotry on all sides, ...
Style:
emotional, uplifting, captivating, touching, thought provoking ...
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racism, human spirit, against the odds, self discovery, rebellion, social relations, life is a bitch, student life, hopes, youth, leadership, discrimination ...
Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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realistic, serious, captivating
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middle east, poland, europe, israel
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
uplifting, thought provoking, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot:
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59%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Most of us know Billy Graham as the self-assured and charismatic preacher who became one of the most important figures of 20th Century Christianity. Now, with the release of Billy: The Early Years, we meet Billy as the earnest and promising young ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, christian film
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Janet Gregory, a single mother with a haunting past, is a paralegal struggling to overcome doubts about Calvin Willis, an African-American husband and father wrongfully accused of raping a neighborhood girl. Eventually convinced of his innocence, ...
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
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The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an existence under subjective and objective conditions in California's industrial prison complex. George Jackson would spend 11 years in jail (7 of which were in solitary confinement) for a ...
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rough, serious, realistic, thought provoking, political
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
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Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
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Duration: 192 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Duration: 206 min.
Story:
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Style:
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fidel castro, politics, rebellion, rebelliousness, ambition, fighting the system, idealism, rise and fall, political corruption, rise to the top, state affairs, society ...
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50s, 20th century
Place:
cuba, latin america
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52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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