101 Must See Films

Take 8: Human Rights

These films are about how we treat each other. The respect is instinctive in ourselves. I want everyone to know that I respect their decisions to be what they are.

Guess Who’s coming to Dinner - in this film a young black man falls in love with a white woman and she going to take him to dinner with her mum and dad.

To sir with love - this film is one of my faviourites. It has my favourite actor, Sidney Poiter. In this film, a young Mark Thacke, goes to teach in England. There he must make the pupils love him.

Mississippi Burning - in this film, two FBI agent are sent to investigate the mysterious disappearance of 3 civil right workers. They have no help from the people around them.

3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri - after a young girl is raped and murder, her mother, Mildred Hayes, decides that she going to protest against the police.

Loving - this film is about a two young people who fall in love. In 1958, Richard and Mildred Loving are thrown out of there home.

Where Hands Touch - it is the Second World War. A biracial girl is targeted, because she falls for an SS Officer son.

The Shape of Water - this the film about a young janitor, Elisa. She stumbles upon a creature who is being held in a secret research facility. She decides she is going to get him out.

The Danish Girl - this is a true story. Artist Gerda Wegener ask her husband to model as a female for a painting. Her husband, Einar, decides he is going to be a female. This is the story of their life.

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