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A to Z Swank Movies

Babies
Filmmaker Thomas Balmès travels to Namibia, Mongolia, Tokyo and San Francisco to profile four ethnically diverse babies and document their experiences during the earliest years of their lives.
BlacKKKlansman
A black detective sets out to infiltrate the Colorado chapter of the Ku Klux Klan with the help of his Jewish colleague. In the midst of the 1970s civil rights movement, they risk their lives to obtain insider information on the violent organization.
Crash
Best Picture set in present-day Los Angeles, where a dozen people experience different forms of racism that adversely affect their lives.
Dead Man Walking
Moving portrayal of real-life nun Helen Prejean, who develops a bond with a death-row inmate, in this powerful adaptation of Prejean's memoirs.
Do the Right Thing
Racial tensions grow in a Brooklyn neighborhood on the hottest day of the summer while everyone tries to cope with the heat. Spike Lee received an Oscar nomination for his screenplay.
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room..
Fascinating, revealing and potent chronicle of the rise and fall of the Houston-based energy giant, told via interviews, news reports and the company's own in-house videos. Written and directed by Alex Gibney. Based on the book “The Smartest Guys in the Room” by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind.
Frida
Best Actress nominee Salma Hayek stars as Mexican surrealist Frida Kahlo in this biopic, which chronicles her turbulent marriage to Diego Rivera, her political activism and the severe pain she experienced following a bus accident.
Fruitvale Station
Drama centered on the tragic shooting of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Bay Area father who was gunned down by a BART subway officer on New Year's Day in 2009, and whose murder shocked the nation after being captured on camera by his fellow passengers.
Good Will Hunting
An Oscar-winning screenplay propels this tale about a brilliant but undisciplined janitor who confronts his problems with the help of a therapist.
The Gospel According To Andre
Esteemed African-American fashion editor André Leon Talley's life and ascent in the fashion world is chronicled through interviews and archival footage. This documentary traces his career from his youth in the segregated South to his work at W and Vogue to his enduring influence today.

Just Mercy
A lawyer defends Walter McMillian, who, in 1987, was sentenced to die for the notorious murder of an 18-year-old girl, despite a preponderance of evidence proving his innocence and the fact that the only testimony against him came from a criminal with a motive to lie.
Minari
A Korean-American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they find the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
The Peanut Butter Falcon
A young man with Down syndrome teams up with a scruffy outlaw to travel across the Southeast, encountering colorful characters along the way.
Respect
Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a young child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom. "Respect" is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice and become the Queen of Soul.
Selena
Biographical drama charting the extraordinary career and tragic slaying of pop singing sensation Selena as her career transcended the Tejano scene that launched her into crossover, mainstream success.
Selma
The marches from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery to secure voting rights for black Americans are depicted in this docudrama set during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, and which focuses on the actions of Martin Luther King Jr.
Smoke Signals
A Native American (Adam Beach) sets off on a journey to recover the remains of his estranged father, learning some important lessons from a traveling companion (Evan Adams) and a woman (Irene Bedard) who knew his father.
Stonewall
A gay runaway in the 1960s finds a sympathetic community at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village. In time, harassment from the police galvanizes his political conscience.
Trial by Fire
Set in Texas, this true-life story follows a penniless ex-criminal and father who is accused of murdering his three children by arson in 1992. Sentenced to death, the father's only ally is a single mom from Houston who fights endlessly for his cause throughout his imprisonment.