I'm working on an article about racial reconciliation, and I'm looking for some good films to recommend that deal with this subject.

What are your favorites?

You can submit titles like Mississippi Burning if you like... but that's really more about racism than racial reconciliation.

Final Solution qualifies.

OT: Our Town does too, in an interesting way.

Others?

You might smack me, but Enemy Mine?

Cry Freedom...Glory...hmm....

Remember the Titans

VERY close to my heart, bro. I look forward to your article. (Let me know if you want a reader.) My favorites on the subject below are bolded.

• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
• In the Heat of the Night
• Glory
• Do the Right Thing
• (Malcolm) X
• The Joy Luck Club (less so)
• American History X
• Amistad
• Dances with Wolves
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Grand Canyon
• Men of Honor
• A Passage to India
• ...I'm sure I'll think of some more...

Places in the Heart

A Family Thing

This may be too much of a stretch, but 'The Apostle' came to mind - I found the relationship between Duvall's character and his African-American minister friend to be a beautiful thing - especially in a deep Southern setting (and with that old saying about Sunday morning being 'America's most segregated hour' running thru my mind).

Not at all, Andrew--good call--although I don't recall them dealing with the reconciliation process per se. There are also scenes of apparent integration earlier in film, for example in the tent revival scene.

I'm not sure merely being integrated is a sign of "reconciliation". It's like saying a film in which men and women happen to be equal is a film about "achieving the equality of the sexes", or something. Duvall has said that he put that racial balance in the film because that basic equality is already THERE in the culture that he researched. So I don't think The Apostle is a "racial reconciliation" movie, not seen by itself or on its own terms; you have to put it in a bigger, non-movie context to get that out of it.

Yep, as I recall, racial reconciliation is never an overt or verbally expressed theme in this film -- nonetheless (and perhaps all the better for it), I think the unspoken, implicit respect and equality between these two characters is a compelling example.