5 movies to watch on World Day of Social Justice

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#1 'Loving' (2016)

This biographical romantic drama tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple who risked jail time for love. They didn't stand down and fought valiantly to stand witness to Virginia's state laws prohibiting interracial marriage getting invalidated. (Photo | Twitter)

'Loving'

Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton play Mildred and Richard move you with their performance as the couple whose love, fear, misfortune and courage take the movie forward as a decade-long legal fight to live in their home state as husband and wife unfolds. (Photo | Twitter)

#2 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (1962)

Adaptation of Harper Lee's iconic novel of the same name is a trenchant-yet sensitive. (Photo | Twitter)

'To Kill a Mockingbird'

According to Variety, the movie stands out because it is a "telling indictment of racial prejudice in the deep South, it is also a charming tale of the emergence of two youngsters from the realm of wild childhood fantasy to the horizon of maturity, responsibility, compassion and social insight." (Photo | Twitter)

#3 'Hidden Figures' (2016)

“Here at NASA, we all pee the same color.” Kevin Costner's Al Harrison says as he brings down a signboard segregating white women from African American women at a restroom... (Photo | Twitter)

'Hidden Figures'

Happening at a time when "computers" denoted humans assigned to solve complex mathematical calculations, the movie follows the lives of three African-American women at the NASA complex. As the nation's brightest minds try to catch up with the Soviet communists in the space race, the protagonists are fighting a war within the organisation. (Photo | Facebook)

#4 '...And Justice for All' (1979)

An aggressive lawyer with an experience of over a decade takes on the legal system to ensure an innocent don't have to rot in prison. But countless technicalities and a sadistic judge make things difficult. Court room dramas are available in plenty but this Al Pacino masterclass hits different. (Photo | Twitter)

#5 'Mudbound' (2017)

"I don't know what they let you do over there, but you're in Mississippi now, ni***r. You use the back door." Ronsel Jackson, who commanded US tanks in Europe is told by a racist Pappy McAllan. Imagine what McAllan would do when he learns Ronsel fathered a child with a white woman...

'Mudbound'

Two scarred World War veterans reach Mississippi to learn their hometown has hardly changed despite the fall of the Nazis. A touching tale with heavy undertones, Jason Mitchell, Jason Clarke, Rob Morgan and others deliver fine performance in this period drama. (Photo | Twitter)