The Scent of Things Remembered

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

Runtime

2h 2m

Director

Edward Zwick

Cast

Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them throug...

Runtime

1h 49m

Director

Norman Jewison

Cast

Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates

Carlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward. The guards institute a reign of terror and neglect, with Carlin emerging as an unlikely leader.

Runtime

1h 36m

Director

Alan Clarke

Cast

Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

Runtime

2h 35m

Director

Miloš Forman

Cast

James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn

A multi-layered satire of race relations in America. Live-action sequences of a prison break bracket the animated tale of Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox, who rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by going up against a con-man, a racist cop, and the Mafia.

Runtime

1h 24m

Director

Ralph Bakshi

Cast

Philip Michael Thomas, Barry White, Charles Gordone