need suggestions

[Craig.]

Recently the BBC have shown a couple of movies dealing with the civil rights era in the US. especially in Mississippi. one of the movies was "mississippi burning", the other "ghosts of mississippi". I found both these movies facinating perhaps Ghost of mississippi was better movie and moreso because they were both based on real events. Can anyone suggests movies that are of a simmilar theme that i could check out?
Thanks for any help
Craig

[Wing Nut]

Do you want fiction or fact based?  Although it's fiction, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is one of the greatest movies ever and it is based on race.  Also good in the fiction department is 'A Time to Kill'

[Craig.]

I must admit i find the fact based one alot more interesting just because it gives me a chance to find out about the history of a place i might end up living. But anything of a simmilar theme would be good to check out. I will have a look out for those you suggested Kevin, thanks:)

[Hyperion2]

"Mockingbird" is among my all time favorite movies AND novels.  Peck was nothing but brilliant as Atticus Finch in the film adaptation.

[TacitBlue]

Mockingbird is a great movie, but the book... I dont know how to explain it. It's one of those books that I didn't enjoy reading, but once finished I could honestly say "man, that was a good book". Make sense?

The Tuskegee Airmen is good. Deals with racism and its about WWII fighter pilots.

[Craig.]

thanks for the suggestions.

[H]

I'm not sure we can definitively designate a 'civil rights era' since it's been on-going. It's rather like, referencing to the Christian Bible, saying "back in the Bible times..." As often as this has been said, even in songs, since the events of Revelation haven't all come to pass yet, it would mean we're still in the Bible times -- its era hasn't passed.
More specifically on the subject, though, a person should be accepted as the individual they are (sometimes it might be better if we were all physically blind --  everything would, at least, be the same color; that would not rid us of adversarial prejudice, however, since it can use most anything for motive, as history proves).
Anything with prop planes interests me, anyway, like "Tuskeegee Airman" which is the later produced. I believe "To Kill a Mockingbird" was produced in the 1950's and is in, pardon it, black-and-white.