Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "ku-klux-klan"

51. The Chamber (1996)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A young man fresh out of law school tries to win a reprieve for his racist grandfather who is on death row.

Director: James Foley | Stars: Chris O'Donnell, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, Robert Prosky

Votes: 16,150 | Gross: $14.55M

52. Smile (1975)

PG | 113 min | Comedy

A social comedy about a beauty pageant for young Californian women, held annually in Santa Rosa, and how it affects the locals and participants.

Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd, Geoffrey Lewis

Votes: 2,571

53. Compulsion (1959)

Approved | 103 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Two wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, Bradford Dillman

Votes: 7,527

54. The Long Walk Home (1990)

PG | 97 min | Drama, History

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.

Director: Richard Pearce | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames

Votes: 4,875 | Gross: $4.80M

55. Posse (1993)

R | 111 min | Western

In 1898 Cuba, five Buffalo Soldiers find a gold cache, desert and return to America where they help defend a black town from the KKK, all the while trying to avoid capture by lawmen and military authorities alike.

Director: Mario Van Peebles | Stars: Mario Van Peebles, Stephen Baldwin, Charles Lane, Paul Bartel

Votes: 4,886 | Gross: $18.29M

56. Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III (1994)

91 min | Drama, History, Romance

The Civil War has just ended, but things in the country aren't much better, especially in the south.

Stars: Philip Casnoff, Kyle Chandler, Cathy Lee Crosby, Lesley-Anne Down

Votes: 2,883

57. Chiefs (1983)

200 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Three generations of police chiefs for a southern town go about their jobs while a serial murderer operates.

Stars: Charlton Heston, Keith Carradine, Stephen Collins, Brad Davis

Votes: 1,812

58. Same Kind of Different as Me (2017)

PG-13 | 119 min | Biography, Drama

International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.

Director: Michael Carney | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Renée Zellweger, Djimon Hounsou, Jon Voight

Votes: 8,584 | Gross: $6.42M

59. Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 192 min | Biography, Drama

The real-life story of the Peoples Temple cult led by Reverend Jim Jones and the events involving its move to Guyana and its eventual mass suicide.

Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Powers Boothe, Ned Beatty, Irene Cara, Veronica Cartwright

Votes: 1,661

60. Head of State (2003)

PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy

When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, Washington, D.C. alderman Mays Gilliam is unexpectedly picked as his replacement.

Director: Chris Rock | Stars: Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, Lynn Whitfield, Dylan Baker

Votes: 21,258 | Gross: $37.79M

61. The Klansman (1974)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A local Sheriff tries to keep the peace as racial strife hits his small Alabama town as tensions boil over when a black man is accused of raping a white woman.

Director: Terence Young | Stars: Lee Marvin, Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, O.J. Simpson

Votes: 1,809 | Gross: $0.53M

62. Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

R | 144 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.

Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan

Votes: 4,856 | Gross: $6.03M

63. Bustin' Loose (1981)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama

Failed parolee Joe Braxton has one last shot at redemption: by driving school kids from Philadelphia to Washington State.

Directors: Oz Scott, Michael Schultz | Stars: Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson, Angel Ramirez Jr., Jimmy Hughes

Votes: 3,725 | Gross: $31.26M

64. Feels Good Man (2020)

92 min | Documentary, Comedy

Artist Matt Furie, creator of the comic character Pepe the Frog, begins an uphill battle to take back his iconic cartoon image from those who used it for their own purposes.

Director: Arthur Jones | Stars: Matt Furie, Aiyana Udesen, Chris Sullivan, Johnny Ryan

Votes: 5,573

65. Burden (I) (2018)

R | 117 min | Biography, Drama, History

When a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan opens in a South Carolina town, the idealistic Reverend Kennedy strives to keep the peace even as he urges the group's Grand Dragon to disavow his racist past.

Director: Andrew Heckler | Stars: Garrett Hedlund, Andrea Riseborough, Forest Whitaker, Tom Wilkinson

Votes: 4,151

66. Roots: The Next Generations (1979)

120 min | Biography, Drama, History

The dramatization of Alex Haley's family line from post Civil War America to the writer's search for his roots.

Stars: Debbi Morgan, Dorian Harewood, Paul Koslo, Stan Shaw

Votes: 2,792

67. Top Dog (1995)

PG-13 | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

With his cop companion shot and killed by terrorists, Reno The Dog pairs up with tough cop Jake in thwarting the criminal organization.

Director: Aaron Norris | Stars: Chuck Norris, Michele Lamar Richards, Erik von Detten, Carmine Caridi

Votes: 3,856 | Gross: $5.09M

68. Storm Warning (1950)

Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Marsha Mitchell, a traveling dress model, stops in a southern town to see her sister who has married a Ku Klux Klansman. Marsha witnesses the KKK commit a murder and helps District Attorney Burt Rainey bring the criminals to justice.

Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran

Votes: 2,686

69. The FBI Story (1959)

Approved | 149 min | Crime, Drama, History

A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Larry Pennell

Votes: 3,918

70. A History of Sex (2003)

60 min | Documentary

Andres Serrano is a New York photographer most famous for his controversial 1987 work Piss Christ. This documentary follows him to Amsterdam where he shoots a collection based on all aspects of sex.

Director: Michael Coulter | Stars: Janine Amsterdam, Laurence Fishburne, Xaviera Hollander, Andres Serrano

Votes: 242

71. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 110 min | Drama, History

Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Director: John Korty | Stars: Cicely Tyson, Eric Brown, Richard Dysart, Joel Fluellen

Votes: 2,511

72. Hunter's Blood (1986)

R | 101 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller

Five "city boys" travel to the country to relax by doing some hunting, drinking Bud, and generally having good time. However, the local inbred backwoods psychos turn the hunters into the ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Hughes | Stars: Sam Bottoms, Kim Delaney, Clu Gulager, Ken Swofford

Votes: 900

73. Stars in My Crown (1950)

Approved | 89 min | Family, Western

In 1865, the small Southern town of Walsburg has become so dangerous that Parson Josiah Doziah Gray gives his sermons while holding a gun.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Alan Hale

Votes: 2,513

74. Paper Clips (2004)

G | 82 min | Documentary, War

As a part of their study of the Holocaust, the children of the Whitwell, TN Middle School try to collect 6 million paper clips representing the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis, and grows to include millions of others killed.

Directors: Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab | Stars: Sandra Roberts, Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand, Tom Bosley, Casey Condra

Votes: 1,786 | Gross: $1.10M

75. Cross Fire (1989 TV Movie)

R | 200 min | Biography, Drama

Story of the rise and fall of 1920s' Ku Klux Klan leader D.C. Stephenson.

Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: John Heard, Mel Harris, David Morse, George Dzundza

Votes: 335

76. Treasure of Matecumbe (1976)

G | 117 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

In 1869 Kentucky, a young boy and his friends set out to find a treasure chest hidden by his late father in the Florida Everglades during the Civil War.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Robert Foxworth, Joan Hackett, Peter Ustinov, Vic Morrow

Votes: 990

77. The Black Klansman (1966)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama

After a black man's daughter is killed by the KKK, he seeks revenge by becoming a Klansman.

Director: Ted V. Mikels | Stars: Richard Gilden, Rima Kutner, Harry Lovejoy, Max Julien

Votes: 540

78. Naqoyqatsi (2002)

PG | 89 min | Documentary, Music

A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

Director: Godfrey Reggio | Stars: Belladonna, Marlon Brando, Elton John, Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Votes: 6,255 | Gross: $0.13M

79. Warm Springs (2005 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 121 min | Biography, Drama

The stirring true story of Franklin D. Roosevelt's battle with polio in 1921.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, David Paymer, Tim Blake Nelson

Votes: 3,335

80. Alamo Bay (1985)

R | 98 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.

Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Amy Madigan, Ed Harris, Ho Nguyen, Donald Moffat

Votes: 1,360 | Gross: $0.38M

81. Tick, Tick, Tick (1970)

G | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected Sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the deep south.

Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Jim Brown, George Kennedy, Fredric March, Lynn Carlin

Votes: 1,366 | Gross: $1.24M

82. The Right to Remain Silent (1996 TV Movie)

R | 97 min | Drama

Just a normal night at the police station for rookie Christine Paley (Lea Thompson). This is a log of about eight different types of arrests which can happen in a normal month. Lieutenant ... See full summary »

Director: Hubert de La Bouillerie | Stars: Penelope Branning, Colleen Camp, Patrick Dempsey, Wanda-Lee Evans

Votes: 298

83. Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016)

PG-13 | 106 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Documentarian Dinesh D'Souza analyzes the history of the Democratic Party and what he thinks are Hillary Clinton's true motivations.

Directors: Dinesh D'Souza, Bruce Schooley | Stars: Dinesh D'Souza, Jonah Goldberg, David Guyette, Andrea Cohen

Votes: 7,805 | Gross: $13.10M

84. The Turning (1992)

R | 91 min | Drama

A white supremacist returns to his hometown for the first time in years to try and save his parents' relationship.

Director: L.A. Puopolo | Stars: Karen Allen, Raymond J. Barry, Michael Dolan, Tess Harper

Votes: 527

85. Another Part of the Forest (1948)

Approved | 107 min | Drama, Romance

This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.

Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Fredric March, Dan Duryea, Edmond O'Brien, Ann Blyth

Votes: 648

86. Chafed Elbows (1966)

63 min | Comedy

A welfare recipient marries his mother.

Director: Robert Downey Sr. | Stars: George Morgan, Elsie Downey, Lawrence Wolf, Tom O'Horgan

Votes: 516

87. The League (2023)

PG | 103 min | Documentary, Sport

Based on the journey of the Negro Baseball League.

Director: Sam Pollard | Stars: Hank Aaron, Monte Irvin, Sam Pollard, Ernie Banks

Votes: 290

88. Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019)

Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary

A look at the history of black horror films and the role of African Americans in the film genre from the very beginning.

Director: Xavier Burgin | Stars: Rusty Cundieff, Ernest R. Dickerson, Robin R. Means Coleman, Jordan Peele

Votes: 2,099

89. Freedom Riders (2010)

Not Rated | 117 min | Documentary, History

The story of the Civil Rights Movement interstate busing protest campaign.

Director: Stanley Nelson | Stars: Raymond Arsenault, Genevieve Houghton, Gordon Carey, Derek Catsam

Votes: 430

90. The Black Klansman (2018)

Short, Biography, History

60 Second Docs presents the true origin story of Ron Stallworth, the black detective who went undercover to infiltrate the Klu Klux Klan in the late 1970s and whose story inspired the film BlacKkKlansman, 2018.

Votes: 95

91. A Man Called Hero (1999)

R | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Hero Wah goes to study under Master Pride. When he returns to his parents, he learns that they have been murdered by a band of evil Westerners. After impregnating his wife Jade, he ventures to New York in search of his parents' killers.

Director: Andrew Lau | Stars: Ekin Cheng, Shu Qi, Kristy Yeung, Nicholas Tse

Votes: 2,104

92. Thurgood (2011 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

Prior to his appointment to United States Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall worked as a lawyer for the NAACP. This one man play tells the story of his role in the civil rights movement and the people that influenced him.

Director: Michael Stevens | Star: Laurence Fishburne

Votes: 592

93. Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975 TV Movie)

215 min | Drama

After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Ned Beatty, John Beck, Billy Green Bush, Dabney Coleman

Votes: 185

94. King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1969)

185 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Follows Martin Luther King's life and decades-long civil rights activism.

Directors: Sidney Lumet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Ben Gazzara, Charlton Heston

Votes: 630

95. Ned (2003)

81 min | Action, Comedy, Western

A comedy based on the rise and fall of Ned Kelly and his gang of Outlaws.

Director: Abe Forsythe | Stars: Felix Williamson, Abe Forsythe, Damon Herriman, Nick Flint

Votes: 409

96. Death Ranch (2020)

78 min | Horror, Thriller

1970s USA. Three African American siblings on the run from police take refuge at a Tennessee Ranch, unaware it's on the hunting grounds of a Ku Klux Klan cult. Trapped and tortured, they fight to escape and take down the bloodthirsty Klan.

Director: Charlie Steeds | Stars: Deiondre Teagle, Faith McCoy, Travis Cutner, Scot Scurlock

Votes: 546

97. Ambushed (1998 TV Movie)

R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A KKK leader is gunned down. His 12 y.o. son isn't spotted. When 4 cops drive the son to a safe house, they're ambushed. Only the racist boy and a black cop get away. He's suspected of the killings so they're on the run.

Director: Ernest R. Dickerson | Stars: Courtney B. Vance, Jer Adrianne Lelliott, Virginia Madsen, William Forsythe

Votes: 762

98. KKK: The Fight for White Supremacy (2015)

57 min | Documentary

Filmmaker Dan Murdoch meets America's most infamous supremacist group - the Ku Klux Klan - who say they are in the midst of a revival, with a surge in membership and cross lightings across the Deep South.

Director: Dan Murdoch | Stars: Dan Murdoch, James Moore, Amanda Lee, Bubba

Votes: 230

99. Who Killed Atlanta's Children? (2000 TV Movie)

105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In the early 1980s, there was someone killing the children of Atlanta. Eventually a single man was caught and convicted in one of the largest manhunts in our nation's history. Ever since, ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Robert Carner | Stars: Jim Belushi, Gregory Hines, Sean McCann, Shawn Doyle

Votes: 597

100. Land of Liberty (1939)

Approved | 138 min | History

This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gayne Whitman, Erville Alderson, Don Ameche, Heather Angel

Votes: 353