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List Of Racism-related Films
This is a list of films that deal with the topic of race or racism. (*) mark are documentary films. 1910's United States 1915 *''The Birth of a Nation'' 1916 *''Intolerance'' 1919 *''Broken Blossoms (1 remake: UK, 1936)'' 1920's United States 1920 *'' In the Depths of Our Hearts'' 1930's United States 1930 *''Son of the Gods'' 1936 *''Show Boat'' 1939 *''Gone With the Wind'' *'' Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert*'' Other Countries *''Triumph of the Will'' (Germany, 1935) *''Circus'' (USSR, 1936) 1940's United States 1942 *''In This Our Life'' 1943 *'' Hitler's Children'' 1947 *''Crossfire'' *''Gentleman's Agreement'' 1949 *'' Home of the Brave '' *''Lost Boundaries'' *'' Pinky'' Other Countries *'' The Eternal Jew'' (Germany, 1940) *''Jud Süß'' (Germany, 1940) *'' Angelitos negros'' (Mexico, 1948) ''(1 remake: Mexico, 1970)'' 1950's United States 1950 *''The Jackie Robinson Story'' *'' No Way Out'' 1951 *'' Go for Broke!'' *''The Well'' 1952 *''Japanese War Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Race (classification Of Human Beings)
A race is a categorization of human Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, cultu ...s based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society. The term came into common usage during the 1500s, when it was used to refer to groups of various kinds, including those characterized by close kinship relations. By the 17th century, the term began to refer to physical (phenotypical) traits, and then later to national affiliations. Modern science regards race as a social construct, an Identity (social science), identity which is assigned based on rules made by society. While partly based on physical similarities within groups, race does not have an inherent physical or biological meaning. The concept of race is foundational to racism, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Of The Brave (1949 Film)
''Home of the Brave'' is a 1949 war film based on a 1946 play by Arthur Laurents. It was directed by Mark Robson (film director), Mark Robson, and stars Douglas Dick, Jeff Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Frank Lovejoy, James Edwards (actor), James Edwards, and Steve Brodie (actor), Steve Brodie. The original play featured the protagonist being Jewish, rather than black. The National Board of Review Awards 1949, National Board of Review named the film the eighth best of 1949. The film takes its name from the last line of the "Star Spangled Banner" ''"And the home of the brave?"'' ''Home of the Brave'' managed to combine three of the top film genres of 1949: the war film, the psychological drama, and the problems of African-Americans. The film utilizes the recurrent theme of a diverse group of men being subjected to the horror of war and their individual reactions, in this case, to the hell of jungle combat against the Japanese in World War II. Plot Undergoing psychoanalysis by an Army psych ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt Of The Earth (1954 Film)
''Salt of the Earth'' is a 1954 American drama film written by Michael Wilson, directed by Herbert J. Biberman, and produced by Paul Jarrico. All had been blacklisted by the Hollywood establishment due to their alleged involvement in communist politics. The drama film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and political point of view. Its plot centers on a long and difficult strike, based on the 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc Company in Grant County, New Mexico. In the film, the company is identified as "Delaware Zinc", and the setting is "Zinctown, New Mexico". The film shows how the miners, the company, and the police react during the strike. In neorealist style, the producers and director used actual miners and their families as actors in the film. Plot Esperanza Quintero (Rosaura Revueltas) is a miner's wife in Zinc Town, New Mexico, a community which is essentially run and owned by Delaware Zinc Inc. Esperanza is thirty-five years old, pregna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toxi
''Toxi'' is a 1952 West German drama film directed by Robert A. Stemmle and starring Elfie Fiegert, Paul Bildt and Johanna Hofer. The film's release came as the first wave of children born to black Allied servicemen and white German mothers entered school. It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg. Elfie Fiegert was selected to play Toxi after a mass audition held in Munich. Publicity for the film emphasised the similarities between her own story and that of Toxi. The film was the eighth most popular release at the West German box office in 1952. The name Toxi became widely used as shorthand in the German media when referring to Afro-Germans and their social circumstances. Plot The melodrama, film begins with a young Afro-German girl being left at the doorsteps of the Rose family—white middle-class Germans—assembled for a birthday party. Initially, most family members treat the young girl with relatively welcome arms as they believe she is only giving a performance a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese War Bride
''Japanese War Bride'' (also known as ''East is East'') is a 1952 drama film directed by King Vidor. The film featured the American debut of Shirley Yamaguchi in the title role. In February 2020, the film was shown at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, as part of a retrospective dedicated to King Vidor's career. Synopsis A wounded Korean War veteran, Jim Sterling ( Don Taylor), returns to his California home with his Japanese wife. The couple had met and fallen in love in a Japanese hospital where Tae Shimizu (Shirley Yamaguchi) was working as a nurse. Back in America, the couple face racism and bigotry from their neighbors and family, particularly their sister-in-law, Fran (Marie Windsor). Impact and legacy The widespread publicity surrounding the film's launch made Japanese wives increasingly visible in the United States. Along with '' The Teahouse of the August Moon'' and the more successful film ''Sayonara'', ''Japanese War Bride'' was argued by some scholars to hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Well (1951 Film)
''The Well'' is a 1951 American drama film directed by Leo C. Popkin and Russell Rouse and starring Richard Rober and Maidie Norman. It tackles the issue of racial tensions and collective behavior. Produced on a modest budget with a cast made up largely of unknown actors, it was nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing. Plot The plot centers around the disappearance of Carolyn, a five-year-old black girl who falls into an abandoned, overgrown well while picking flowers on her way to school one morning. Her parents seek assistance from Sheriff Ben Kellogg (Richard Rober) to help find her. Carolyn's disappearance causes anger and confusion in the community, and various rumors quickly spread among the white and black populations when a white stranger, Claude Packard ( Harry Morgan), is arrested on suspicion of having something to do with it. Claude, a mining engineer, is in town visiting his uncle, Sam Packard (Barry Kelley), a wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go For Broke! (1951 Film)
''Go for Broke!'' is a 1951 black-and-white war film directed by Robert Pirosh, This film is a Hollywood rarity for its era in that it features Asian Americans in a positive light, highlighting the wartime efforts of Japanese Americans on behalf of their country even while that same country confined their families in Japanese American Internment, camps. As with his earlier film script for ''Battleground (film), Battleground'', in which Van Johnson also starred, writer-director Robert Pirosh focuses on the average squad member, mixing humor with pathos, while accurately detailing equipment and tactics used by American infantry in World War II.Crowther, Bosley "'Go for Broke!', Tribute to War Record of Nisei Regiment, Opens at the Capitol" ''New York Times.'' May 25, 1951. The contrast of reality versus public relations, the hardships of field life on the line, and the reality of high casualty rates are accurately portrayed with a minimum of heroics. In 1979, the film entered the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Way Out (1950 Film)
''No Way Out'' is a 1950 American film noir directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and starring Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Sidney Poitier and Stephen McNally, who portrays a doctor tending to slum residents whose ethics are tested when confronted with racism, personified by Widmark as the hateful robber Ray Biddle. ''No Way Out'' was controversial in its “graphic representation of racial violence” in what director Mankiewicz termed “the absolute blood and guts of Negro hating.” The film marked the feature acting debuts of Poitier and Mildred Joanne Smith. Mankiewicz and Lesser Samuels were also nominated for Best Story and Screenplay at the 23rd Academy Awards, losing to Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. M. Marshman Jr. for ''Sunset Boulevard''. Plot Dr. Luther Brooks is the first African American doctor at the urban county hospital where he trained. Despite assurances from his mentor, chief resident Dr. Dan Wharton, Brooks sometimes lacks confidence in his ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jackie Robinson Story
''The Jackie Robinson Story'' is a 1950 biographical film directed by Alfred E. Green (who had directed ''The Jolson Story'', "one of the biggest hits of the 40s") and starring Jackie Robinson as himself. The film focuses on Robinson's struggle with the abuse of bigots as he becomes the first African-American Major League Baseball player of the modern era. The film is among the list of films in the public domain in the United States. However a new copyrighted "restored and in color" version was released in conjunction with the Jackie Robinson Foundation in 2008. Plot The film begins with Robinson as a boy. He is given a worn-out baseball glove by a stranger impressed by his fielding skills. As a young man, he becomes a multi-sport star at UCLA, but as he nears graduation, he worries about his future. His older brother Mack was also an outstanding college athlete and graduate, but the only job he could get was that of a lowly street cleaner. When America enters World War I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelitos Negros (1970 Film)
''Angelitos negros'' (English: Little Black Angels) is a 1970 Mexican melodrama written and directed by Joselito Rodríguez and starring Manuel López Ochoa, Martha Rangel, Titina Romay, and American actress Juanita Moore, whose voice was dubbed to Spanish.Staggs, p. 217García Riera, p. 1967 The film is a remake of the 1948 film of the same name, also directed by Joselito Rodríguez, in which Titina Romay played the role of the black daughter in blackface. Rangel and Romay were the director's daughters. Plot Juan Carlos Ruiz (Manuel López Ochoa) is a singer who meets Ana Luisa de la Fuente (Martha Rangel), who works at an all-girls school. Juan Carlos begins to court Ana Luisa, who soon starts to demonstrate prejudice against black people, criticizing the fact that Juan Carlos performs alongside black artists like Isabel (Titina Romay, in blackface), a Puerto Rican black woman who loves him. Ana Luisa has a black nanny called Mercé (Juanita Moore) that has cared for her all h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelitos Negros (1948 Film)
''Angelitos negros'' (English: "Little Black Angels") is a 1948 Mexican drama film directed and co-written by Joselito Rodriguez and starring Pedro Infante. Plot Jose Carlos Ruiz (Pedro Infante) is a famous singer that meets Ana Luisa de la Fuente (Emilia Guiú) an assistant manager of a girls school. José Carlos begins to fall in love with her and they become engaged. Then Jose Carlos begins to realize that his future wife is prejudiced against black people, because she does not accept that he performs alongside mulatto artists. Ana Luisa herself has a nanny called Merce (Rita Montaner) that has cared for her all her life and is a woman of color, she is accustomed to her but openly dislikes her. José Carlos tries his best to resolve the conflicts that his wife's racist attitude brings to their family. Ana Luisa soon gives birth to a daughter who surprisingly turns out to be dark-skinned, horrifying Ana Luisa. They name her Belen (Titina Romay). Belen suffers a lot becaus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jud Süß (1940 Film)
(, "Süss the Jew") is a 1940 Nazi German historical drama and propaganda film produced by Terra Film at the behest of Joseph Goebbels. It is considered one of the most antisemitic films of all time. The film was directed by Veit Harlan, who wrote the screenplay with Eberhard Wolfgang Möller and Ludwig Metzger. The leading roles were played by Ferdinand Marian and Harlan's wife Kristina Söderbaum; Werner Krauss and Heinrich George played key supporting roles. The film has been characterized as "one of the most notorious and successful pieces of antisemitic film propaganda produced in Nazi Germany." It was a great success in Germany, and was seen by 20 million people. Although its budget of 2 million Reichsmarks was considered high for films of that era, the box office receipts of 6.5 million Reichsmarks made it a financial success. Heinrich Himmler urged members of the SS and police to see it. After the war, some of the leading cast members were brought to trial as part o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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