1960s; young scouser Jude crosses the Atlantic and meets upper class Lucy in this musical tale of two star-crossed lovers set against the raging waters of the volatile 60s counterculture movement; race riots, Vietnam, civil rights, protest, music, drugs, dance, art, hippies and psychedelia. Over 30 Beatles songs are woven into the plot together with visual allusions to their films and, with cameos from Bono and Eddie Izzard, this weird, loud and colourful montage will either have you breaking ou find out more...

An ivy league college becomes an explosive battle ground for racial tensions that have been simmering away for decades after a horrendous Halloween party is thrown in poor taste by the affluent, over-entitled, racist white kids. Hilarious and right on the money, make time for it.

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Back in 1963 a naive Southern belle dumps her hubby to try and get to JFK's funeral but ends up banding together with a fugitive black guy trying to reunite with the child he lost. The two have to beat both racism and mutual antipathy before getting it together in this unusual love story. Watch. find out more...

Three civil rights activists are murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and the local community remains tight-lipped when the two FBI agents arrive. One is determined to go by the book but the other is determined to blow open the case any which way. Another powerful masterpiece from Alan Parker. Watch it! find out more...

An investigative documentary by Shane O'Sullivan that examines the events of that fateful night in 1968 and presents compelling theories that suggest the killer, Sirhan Sirhan, was not working alone. The problem with O'Sullivan's case is that though the motives to kill Robert Kennedy were strong amongst the right-wing Cuban (anti-Castro) clique who'd infiltrated the CIA, and the gringo militaristic clique who ran them, the evidence presented is, though not unconvincing, circumstantial and would find out more...

From 1968 to 1975, gangs ruled New York City. Beyond the idealistic hopes of the civil rights movement lay a unfocused rage. Neither law enforcement nor social agency could end the escalating bloodshed. Peace came only through the most unlikely and courageous of events that would change the world for generations to come by giving birth to hip-hop culture. Rubble Kings, the most comprehensive documentation of life during this era of gang rule to date, tells the story find out more...

A gripping, Oscar nominated, reconstruction of the rise of the Baader-Meinhof Group, a bunch of radical terrorists who rose in the mid-70s using military means, arson, bank raids, assassinations and kidnappings, to attempt the overthrow of the German state, many of whose personnel had their roots in the country's Nazi state. find out more...

Jayne Marshall says: "An adaptation of the book of the same name - a friend made me read the book, which I mostly hated, not least because all I could think whilst reading it was, 'written-in-order-to-sell-film-rights' over and over.  Not long after I finished the book, the film version was announced.  The film is concerned with the story of Skeeter, an aspiring writer and privileged white woman living in 1960s Mississippi and trying to overcome the stifling social constraints still find out more...

South Carolina, 1964; Lily Owens is a young girl haunted by the memory of her mother, who died in an accident when she was just a toddler. When Rosaleen, a woman hired by her father to look after Lily, insults a pivotal town figure, she and Lily are forced to flee and find a new home. On their journey they come across August, who takes them in on the simple proviso that they help out on her farm. It is here that Lily begins to blossom again, discovering the joys of life, family, and the wondrous find out more...