Hotel Rwanda -- (Based on a True Story) Manager of a Hotel in Kigali, Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina sheltered 1,268 civilians [Tutsis and moderate Hutus] from being slaughtered by the Interahamwe militia.
The horror and massacre unfolds before your eyes as you watch what the world did not want you to see, innocent children being killed with machetes so the “next generation” would not continue.
This movie for me helps me realise how disgusting racism is. Children, men and women all slaughtered because of their skin colour while the whites were taken out of harms way for freedom, while the blacks were left to battle with no help.
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Lean On Me -- (Based on a true story) Based on Joe Clark, former U.S Army Drill Sergent now Principal, sent in to Eastside High School to fix it up. He chained the doors to keep the drug dealers out, he forced the deliquents to clean off their graffiti on the walls and work hard to pass the State Basic Skills Exam. Some fought him but you watch as he transforms that school from a hell hole for many who get beaten and turn to drugs, to it becoming a clean cut school where the children LEARN! the whole reason for a school. He inspies me to become a teacher and I hope one day I can get there.
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Radio -- (Based on a True Story) Radio, a black, special man grows from being either ignored, or bullied by his peers in town to being a wonderful friend to many at the local high school as he helped the Coach out at the Coach’s insistence. Radio helps the town see how beautiful humans are and we are all one race. The human race. He treats everyone all the time how they wish they were treated half the time.
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Remember the Titans -- (Based on a True Story) A look of racial segregation, a bit loose on the real facts about the Titans Football players but real in the reality of how people reacted to the schools integrating into a mixed school T.C. Williams.
Another movie which helps me realise how disgusting racism is.
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Titanic -- (Based on a True Story) I do not watch this movie for the love story per say, I watch to see how even today society is the same. Discriminating towards people and families all based on the money they have behind their names. Even today nearly 100 years later society will still act nicer towards those with money then those who work in “lower” jobs. 1,517 people drowned when the Titanic hit an iceberg that night in 1912, the rich women and children saved first on the few lifeboats whilst the “poor” women and children were left in their cabins.
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Erin Brockovich -- (Based on a True Story) Erin battles for the sick people who were poisoned by a big company who felt that the families didn’t deserve anything more than just some money for their houses so they could continue to develop dangerous chemicals and water. The families were lied to and treated like scum for no good reason.
A heart-touching movie that helps you see how one woman can fight for the rights of those who feel they can’t
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Soyland Green -- An in-depth movie that scares me when the truth comes out; if we keep treating Mother Nature and our Earth the way we do, we’ll all end up dying from numerous diseases, and end up being recycled so others can eat us.
Disgusting yet incredibly powerful.
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To Kill A Mockingbird -- Beautifully portrayed this movie had me in tears. One little girl who did not see the colour of a persons skin, nor could she understand why people focused on that so much. One little girl who met “Bo Radley”, a special man who hides from the world because of it.
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Hairspray -- Story of a “big” girl with a dream to dance and be famous, Tracy Turnblad wants the world to see Black and Whites are all the same. She marches for her friends and shines a light to the fact TV (back then) was showed in black and white not just white. The world is one big checkerboard.
