Through his religious conversion to Islam, Malcolm X finds the strength to rise up from a criminal past and become an influential civil rights leader

An idealistic young attorney retraces the events leading to the crime for which his Klansman grandfather was convicted

Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat in the "whites only" section of a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama, inspires the Civil Rights Movement and makes a leader of Martin Luther King, Jr

Bryan Cranston stars in a riveting look at the formidable challenges and demons faced by President Lyndon Johnson on his tumultuous first year in office, from his accidental ascension to the presidency in November 1963, to his relentless fight to win passage of a landmark Civil Rights Bill with the election of 1964 looming.

A railroad section hand is forced to confront prejudice and self-denial when he falls in love with an educated preacher's daughter