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Movie about institutionalise racism in sixties and seventies

Black and White: Uptight

Black and White: Uptight

1969

Narrated by Robert Culp, this special examines racism in the sixties

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It Ain’t Half Racist, Mum
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It Ain’t Half Racist, Mum

1979

Academic and activist Stuart Hall and actor and activist Maggie Steed present a rigorous deconstruction of the racism - both explicit and more insidious in its subtlety - of the British media from within.

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Sexy Sixties
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Sexy Sixties

2009

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Black and White
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Black and White

1932

The film addresses issues of racism in the Jim Crow American South. Themes of racial injustice, racial violence, working-class solidarity dominate the film. It depicts black men working in a field, walking in chains, sitting behind bars, and being executed in an electric chair. In most scenes, a white authority figure is seen whipping or guarding the men.

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King of the Ghetto

King of the Ghetto

BBC Drama about racial tensions in London's east end in the 1980s.

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Step Forward Youth

Step Forward Youth

1977

Rare archive footage of British born young people in the mid 70s, discussing issues of school, police, parents and what it is like to be black in a white world.

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Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

2002

illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, swinging 1960s. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, "Reel Radicals" features clips from such seminal films as Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967); Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" (1967); Dennis Hopper's "Easy Rider" (1969); John Frankenheimer's "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962); Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) and "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968); John Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy" (1969); Richard Brooks' "Elmer Gantry" (1960) and "In Cold Blood" (1967); and Norman Jewison's "In the Heat of the Night" (1967) and "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968). Frankenheimer, Jewison, Hopper, Schlesinger, Penn, Buck Henry, Paul Mazursky, Roger Corman and Arthur Hiller are among the filmmakers who discuss the decade.

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This Film Is Meant to Be About Stokely Carmichael

This Film Is Meant to Be About Stokely Carmichael

2011

Having spent years surrounding herself with white middle class culture, filmmaker Isis Thompson asks herself why making a film about her cousin, 60's Black radical Stokely Carmichael, is such a battle? Is it because, as some say, she isn't very good at being Black? If so how can she improve? And what is being Black anyway? A humorous journey which takes us from leafy North London to the wilds of County Cork in a bid to understand the nature of sex and race in 21st century Britain.

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Uprising
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Uprising

Steve McQueen and James Rogan’s Uprising examines three pivotal events from 1981 and how they defined race relations in Britain for a generation.

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The School That Tried To End Racism
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The School That Tried To End Racism

Documentary about a pioneering British school helping 11 and 12-year-old pupils uncover and eradicate hidden racial biases by giving them a series of activities designed to challenge everything they thought they knew about race.

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