Movies like Rustin
If Rustin's mix of protest, black activist and social issues stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Rustin's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Trial of the Chicago 7
2020 · Directed by Aaron Sorkin · 130 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: black activist, activist, 1960s · Also drama and history · From the same decade (2020s)
What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.
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Nickel Boys
2024 · Directed by RaMell Ross · 140 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: 1960s, civil rights movement · Also drama and history · From the same decade (2020s)
Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
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Green Book
2018 · Directed by Peter Farrelly · 130 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: 1960s, gay theme · Also drama and history
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below…
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Judas and the Black Messiah
2021 · Directed by Shaka King · 125 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: 1960s · Also drama and history · From the same decade (2020s)
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s…
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Detroit
2017 · Directed by Kathryn Bigelow · 143 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: 1960s · Also drama and history
A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.
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The Hate U Give
2018 · Directed by George Tillman Jr. · 133 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: protest
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds…