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Roots: The Gift (1988)
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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.
Plot:
christmas, african american, slavery, holiday, freedom, captive, human exploitation, racism, escape, inheritance, family relations, interracial relations, flash forward, cross cultural relations, black
Place:
africa, virginia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sincere and thought provoking films with plots about racism, african american, interracial relations, black, slavery, blaxploitation and society mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like Roots: The Gift: Roots (2016), Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987), Ganga Zumba (1963), Crisis at Central High (1981), The Middle Passage (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.
Plot:
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Place:
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45%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, History
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Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Story of the federally-ordered integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
Plot:
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40%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Martinique
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Plot:
slavery, slave trade, social injustice, prisoner, human rights, captive, slave, anguish, murder, revolt, freedom, protest ...
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africa, atlantic ocean, senegal
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A number of slaves risk their lives to escape their masters with their only help coming from the famous secret slave escape network.
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.
Plot:
human exploitation, plantation, slavery, slave, escape, murder, sadism, fire, african american, baby, drunkenness, torture ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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205
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Set in a small town in the South, movie centers on Georgia Potter, an old-fashioned widow (Rowlands), whose life changes drastically when her estranged daughter and the son-in-law she never met die in a car crash. When she visits her granddaughter ...
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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743
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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Duration: 155 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 118 min.
Story:
This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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serious, realistic, sincere, talky
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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 ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 588 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease increasing racial tensions.
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Plot:
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Story:
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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