Powerful Films on Race Relations
YDL owns copies of all but one of these films: reserve your copy today
The Color Purple (1985) PG-13 Fiction: Based on the novel by Alice Walker
Do The Right Thing (1989) R Fiction
Get Out (2017) R Fiction: Horror
Django Unchained (2013) R Fiction-Western
Harriet (2019) PG-13 Fiction: Biographical: Harriet Tubman
13th (2016) Documentary about 13th Amendment & Mass Incarceration
No DVD release; streaming only on www.Netflix.com
Birth of a Nation (2016) R Fiction: Biographical: Nat Turner
Note: For historical purposes, YDL also owns a copy of the original film called Birth of a Nation made in 1935 (see catalog)
Malcolm X (1991) R Fiction: Biographical: based on the book The Autobiography of Malcom X as told to Alex Haley
Fruitvale Station (2013) R Fiction: base on the true story of Oscar Grant
12 Years a Slave (2014) R Fiction: Biographical: Solomon Northrup
Just Mercy (2020) PG-13 Fiction: Biographical: Bryan Stevenson