เรื่องราวที่เกิดขึ้นในตอนใต้ของอเมริกา สองปีก่อนสงครามกลางเมือง ทาสชื่อ แจงโก้ (เจมี่ ฟอกซ์) ผู้มีอดีตอันเลวร้ายกับเจ้านายคนก่อน ได้พบกับนักล่าค่าหัวผู้ที่เกิดในเยอรมันนามว่า ดร.คิง ชุลซ์ (คริสตอฟ วอลซ์) ซึ่งชุลซ์นั้นต้องขอความช่วยเหลือจากแจงโก้ เพื่อตามล่าพี่น้องบริตเตอร์ผู้เหี้ยมโหด และสัญญาจะแบ่งค่าหัวให้กับแจงโก้ ไม่ว่าจะจับพี่น้องบริตเตอร์ได้เป็นหรือจับตาย หลังจากที่ทั้งสองทำภารกิจนั้นสำเร็จ ชุลซ์จึงช่วยให้แจงโก้เป็นไท ชุลซ์เองก็ไม่ได้แยกจากไป แต่ตัดสินใจจะช่วยแจงโก้ทำภารกิจใหม่ คือการตามหา บรูมฮิลด้า (เครี่ วอชิงตัน) ภรรยาของแจงโก้ที่หายไปตั้งแต่มีการซื้อขายทาสนานมาแล้ว ซึ่งภายหลัง แจงโก้และ ดร.ชุลซ์ พบว่าภรรยาของได้ตกเป็นทาสของ แคลวิน แคนดี้ (ลีโอนาร์โด ดิคาปริโอ) เจ้าของไร่ "แคนดี้แลนด์" ที่โด่งดังเรื่องความเหี้ยมโหด ซาดิสม์ ชอบจับให้ทาสต่อสู้กันเพื่อความสนุก ทั้งสองจะทำอย่างไรเมื่อพวกเขาพบว่าการจะพาภรรยาของเขาออกไปจากที่นี่ มีเพียงหนทางเดียวที่อาจจะชี้ความเป็นความตายของพวกเขา
Ex-con Russell Gaines is attempting to rebuild his life with the help of his father, Mitchell. However, the arrival of Maben sends his new life into chaos, leading the pair to go on the run - as their violent pasts catch up to them, the pair must learn to trust each other if they hope to live out the rest of their days.
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
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.
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.
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.