Band of Angels
Aug 03, 1957 | IMDB 6.2
125 min Watch NowRomance, Drama, History
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.
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Imitation of Life
IMDB 7.5 | Apr , 1959
In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.The Great Locomotive Chase
IMDB 6.3 | Jun , 1956
During the Civil War, a Union spy, Andrews, is asked to lead a band of Union soldiers into the South so that they could destroy the railway system. However, things don't go as planned when the conductor of the train that they stole is on to them and is doing everything he can to stop them. Based on a true story.Wide Sargasso Sea
IMDB 4.7 | Apr , 1993
In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason. But when Annette's young son dies in a fire started by former slaves, Mason flees to England, leaving his grief-stricken wife and her Creole daughter Antoinette behind. Soon Antoinette learns she must marry to claim her inheritance and sets her sights on Rochester, an Englishman eerily similar to Mason.A Family Thing
IMDB 6.4 | Mar , 1996
Earl Pilcher Jr. runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a letter explaining he's not her natural son, but the son of a Black woman who died in childbirth; plus, he has a half brother Ray, in Chicago, she wants him to visit. Earl makes the trip, initially receiving a cold welcome from Ray and Ray's son, Virgil. His birth mother's sister, Aunt T., an aged and blind matriarch, takes Earl in tow and insists that the family open up to him.Ode to Billy Joe
IMDB 6.1 | Jun , 1976
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IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 1953
Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixion. Marcellus has never been a man of faith like his slave, Demetrius, but when Demetrius escapes with the robe, Marcellus experiences disturbing visions and feels guilty for his actions. Convinced that destroying the robe will cure him, Marcellus sets out to find Demetrius — and discovers his Christian faith along the way.Greased Lightning
IMDB 6.3 | Jul , 1977
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.The Honor of His Family
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1910
An old colonel is proud as a peacock: his son leads a group of volunteers in the American Civil War. Untill one day his son returns home as a deserter.The Toast of New York
IMDB 5.8 | Jul , 1937
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IMDB 0 | Feb , 2026
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IMDB 0 | Feb , 2026
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IMDB 6.2 | May , 1987
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IMDB 7.5 | Sep , 2022
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IMDB 6.3 | Dec , 1946
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IMDB 6.7 | Mar , 2004
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IMDB 6.1 | Sep , 1991
In the Deep South of the 1930s, Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Her appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and she knows it. She can't help herself from getting into trouble with men.The Old Maid
IMDB 7 | Aug , 1939
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.Impossible to Imagine
IMDB 6.2 | Mar , 2019
The story of a traditional Kyoto woman who runs a failing kimono business and the entrepreneurial, biracial, business consultant who comes to help keep it solvent. Along the way they fall in love, but his need for change clashes with her desire for the world to stay the same. In the end, can they change enough for each other?Grey Knight
IMDB 4.7 | Mar , 1993
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers accidentally free an evil voodoo entity brought back by slave traders. The entity possesses the dead bodies of both Union and Confederate soldiers creating an army of its own bent on conquest.Goodbye Uncle Tom
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 1971
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.