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Rich Bower is an up-and-coming star in the hip-hop world. Everyone wants to be around him, including Raven and her fellow upper-class white high school friends. The growing appeal of black culture among white teens fascinates documentary filmmaker Sam Donager, who sets out to chronicle it with her husband, Terry. But before Bower was a rapper, he was a gangster, and his criminal past comes back to haunt him and all those around him.

Narrated by Robert Culp, this special examines racism in the sixties

Racial integration is Elena's profession and passion, not only filling her working day as a cultural mediator assisting immigrants, but spilling over into her home life as well. All too often her husband Carlo must attend charity events where he feels distinctly out of place. During one of these evenings, Carlo meets Nadine, a beautiful black woman.

Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.

Black and White is the story of Lisa, a young Soviet emigre studying medicine in Manhattan, Roy, an African American building superintendent on New York's Lower East Side, and the bond that they form from living on the edges of Manhattan. Filled with an assortment of fringe artists, disenfranchised immigrants, diamond dealers and sexual surrogates, the film is ultimately about breaking down barriers between people.

The fifth episode of Ann Hui and Yim Ho’s “ICAC” Series (1978) around bribery and corruption

They were two hobos, black and white, master and man, a regular slave driver white, while black went off for the eats. But Cleopatra and her sweet-potato pies ended the despotism. She saved the "lovin' man" of her race. Tabasco and an officer of the law did it, while white made a fast retreating speck up the track.

Taiwanese war film.

Ricky Martin Live Black & White Tour is the second live album by Ricky Martin, released by Sony BMG Norte. It was recorded during his performances at the "José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum" in Puerto Rico on August 10 and August 11, 2007 as a part of his worldwide tour "Black & White".

A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.

Two years after Haley Curtiz is betrayed by her partner and her employer, she returns to play a deadly game with those who betrayed her. Aided by her friend Sanya, they enlist the help of other willing and unwilling players. Experience the film three different ways. From Haley's perspective, from Wallis's perspective, or view the entire film to see both sides of the story. Decide for yourself if life is full of shades of gray, or whether it is as simple as white...and black.her.

Abstract and vividly graphic, this music video was created for Jack Parow and Gangs of Ballet’s song ‘Black and White’ by the studio Feral Child, who expertly translated the intensity of the lyrics while weaving the EP’s thematic colours all through the frames.

A film by Jacob Burckhardt

A marriage is put to the test when an interracial couple are forced to quarantine together through the Covid pandemic and 'Black Lives Matter' movement.

A suspenseful and adventurous journey of a courageous black woman with the fear of rain, known as ombrophobia. As she seeks solace from her troubled past, fate intertwines her life with an enigmatic white man, torn by his own demons and on a quest for redemption.

Explores the potent collaboration between intersex activist Mani Bruce Mitchell and acclaimed New Zealand photographer Rebecca Swan.

In Black & White there are two types of imagery: video footage of surfaces and spaces such as walls and doorways, and static computer-generated graphics. There are points when the origin of the material that you see seems clear, but a change in focus or a cut to another perspective often throws the image into doubt. In many ways the piece is a minimalist investigation of assumptions regarding the aesthetics of virtual reality.

Deep in the countryside a man fights to survive a surprise sex party with his soul intact.

A teen struggling with addiction encounters the battlefield of her mind - literally. As her garage transforms into her mental struggle, she learns that despite her best efforts, she can't win. But Someone else can.

Top class swordplay action from Taiwan, where umbrellas are used as swords.

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.

George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.