Dos años antes de estallar la Guerra Civil (1861-1865), Schultz, un cazarrecompensas alemán que le sigue la pista a unos asesinos, le promete al esclavo Django dejarlo en libertad si le ayuda a atraparlos. Terminado con éxito el trabajo, Django prefiere seguir al lado del alemán y ayudarle a capturar a los delincuentes más buscados del Sur. Se convierte así en un experto cazador de recompensas, pero su único objetivo es rescatar a su esposa Broomhilda, a la que perdió por culpa del tráfico de esclavos. La búsqueda llevará a Django y a Schultz hasta Calvin Candie, el malvado propietario de la plantación "Candyland". La presencia de ambos en los alrededores de la propiedad, despierta las sospechas de Stephen, el esclavo de confianza de Candie.

Después de 11 años en una prisión estatal de Mississippi, Russell Gaines lucha por dejar atrás sus pecados pasados ​​mientras regresa a casa con su estoico padre, Mitchell. Una noche fatídica conoce a Maben, una joven madre que no tiene nada más que un arma robada y un agente de policía asesinado a su nombre. Desesperados y huyendo, Russell y Maben deben confiar el uno en el otro para escapar de sus propias circunstancias, antes de que las verdades de su pasado violento entrelazado amenace con destruirlos.

La inminente muerte del anciano patriarca de una acomodada familia del Sur desencadena terribles tensiones entre sus herederos. Uno de sus hijos, Brick, indeciso y apático, se refugia en el alcohol y se muestra completamente indiferente ante la situación, pero Maggie, su mujer, no está dispuesta a contemplar impasible su destrucción. El otro, Gooper, al igual que su esposa, es ambicioso y oportunista.

Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connection — with loved ones and with place.

Expulsados por la dictadura de Uganda en 1972, un matrimonio hindú y su pequeña hija Mina emigran a los Estados Unidos donde, después de varios años de tranquilidad, la pasión de la hermosa Mina por un hombre de color les hace revivir el odio racial, la angustia y el amor de sus vidas pasadas.

Raw and unflinching examination of the courageous life of basketball star and social justice activist Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. Born Chris Jackson, he overcame tremendous adversity to reach the NBA and found his true calling when he converted to Islam. His decision not to stand for the national anthem, however, turned him from prodigy to pariah. Told candidly by Abdul-Rauf himself more than 20 years later it’s the remarkable story of one man who kept the faith and paved the way for a social justice movement.

No one could spin a yarn to make a sale like Ray Lum. Twenty years after their initial meeting, Bill Ferris returned home to Mississippi in the early ‘70s with a camera. The result reveals a look back at the colorful rhythms of Ray’s life—at home, at the auction, joking with strangers outside country stores— and provides a glimpse at Southern manhood, friendship and loss. Now nearly Ray’s age when they first filmed, Ferris has become a Grammy Award winning documentarian and renowned folklorist. Using never before seen 16mm footage and new animations, OKAY, MR. RAY is a short documentary film about how even the tallest tales help us keep the memory alive of the ones we love.

Perhaps it is his distinctive velvet smooth voice and calming demeanor that made Morgan Freeman a household name. World-renowned actor, Freeman has starred in over 100 movies in just three decades and continues to break barriers.

Based on A Few Days Full of Trouble by Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr. and Christopher Benson, the feature doc will explore two parallel tracks of the Till story. One set in motion by the last four years of an FBI investigation with details never before revealed, including significant new revelations of the case and its discoveries. The traumatic memory of Parker Jr., last surviving witness to the crime and Till’s cousin, drives that investigation. The second track is a deep immersion into the latest, proprietary findings, as high schoolers prepare for a reenactment of the murder trial of two of Till’s killers, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam.

In the fall of 1962, a dramatic series of events made Civil Rights history and changed a way of life. On the eve of James Meredith becoming the first African-American to attend class at the University of Mississippi, the campus erupted into a night of rioting between those opposed to the integration of the school and those trying to enforce it. Before the rioting ended, the National Guard and Federal troops were called in to put an end to the violence and enforce Meredith's rights as an American citizen.