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The scarlet letter

a romance
2003
Hester Prynne, condemned to wear the scarlet letter "A" for adultress, endures her ostracism with dignity, while her lover is tormented by the burden of an unexposed sin.

Remember the Titans

2006
The football team at T.C. Williams High School in Virginia becomes a unifying symbol for the entire community when, forced to integrate in 1971 and with an African-American coach given the top job, the players must overcome their dislike and mistrust of each other to create a winning team.

Rabbit-proof fence

2003
Three Aboriginal girls, forcibly removed from their families in 1931 in accordance with government policy, and placed in camps where they were to be trained to work as domestics for white families, escape their captors and set out on a 1,500-mile journey across Australia, determined to return to their homes. Based on a true story.

Osmosis Jones

2001
Follows Osmosis Jones, a white blood cell cop, as he sets out to stop a villanious virus named Thrax, inside a human named Frank.

Oliver Twist

2006
After living in poor conditions, Oliver runs away to the streets of London. There he meets a gang of pickpockets and soon Oliver's life is changed forever.

National treasure

2005
Benjamin Franklin Gates, obsessed with finding the mythical Knights Templar Treasure, finds himself having to steal the Declaration of Independence, which holds the key to the mystery of the treasure's whereabouts, in order to keep it out of another's dangerous hands.

The murder of Emmett Till

2004
Examines the death of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy from Chicago murdered by two white men in August 1955 after he reportedly whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store, and discusses the killing's impact as a catalyst for the civil rights movement.

The miracle worker

2001
Dramatizes Boston teacher Annie Sullivan's struggle to communicate with and teach her deaf, blind, and mute student, Helen Keller.

The Maltese falcon

2000
A gallery of high-living low-lifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Private detective Sam Spade wants to find out why, and who's going to take the fall.

Malcolm X

2005
Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.

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