In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is a violation of strict Virginia law.

The Birth of a Nation
2016
6.6/10

12 Years a Slave
2013
7.9/10

Free State of Jones
2016
6.8/10

The Beguiled
2017
5.9/10

The Poker House
2008
6.2/10

Bastard Out of Carolina
1996
7.1/10

Glory
1989
7.5/10

The Beguiled
1971
7.0/10

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
1998
7.2/10

Unconquered
1947
6.5/10

Matewan
1987
7.4/10

Trees of Peace
2021
7.2/10

The Great Debaters
2007
7.3/10

Holy Lands
2019
6.1/10

The Burial
2023
7.1/10

Django Unchained
2012
8.2/10

Holler
2021
6.0/10

Christy
2025
7.1/10

Son of the South
2021
6.5/10

Marshall
2017
7.3/10
Possible Lives
2008
6.5/10