The Vault
Valley of the Heart's Delight
2006 ★ 7.3When a fatal kidnapping ignites a firestorm of suspicion and rage in idyllic 1933 San Jose, California, a hard-nosed young reporter takes on the powers-that-be
Yakuza Law
1969 ★ 6.1A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods. Topic: Film "Yakuza Law" (1969). Role: Meticulous television and film archivist. Constraint
The Skeleton Key
2005 ★ 6.6A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past. The film "The Skeleton Key
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
2021 ★ 8.0This chilling reflection examines the horrific history of lynchings as cultural events and celebrations that included souvenirs and postcards. Lynching Postcard
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943 ★ 7.7A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot. Western Dr
Along the Great Divide
1951 ★ 7.4US marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to get him to Santa Loma for trial. Vindictive Ned Roden, whose s
Prairie Rustlers
1945 ★ 7.0Billy Carson is accused of the crimes committed by his dead-ringer, outlaw cousin Jim Slade, and barely escapes a lynching. With the aid of his pal Fuzzy Jones,
Surviving America
2021 ★ 1.0In the wake of the new Civil Rights Movement it is important to tell Black stories from those who actually live it. Shoot first and ask questions later, lynchin
Gentlemen With Guns
1946 ★ 6.5While Fuzzy is waiting for his mail order bride, McCallister frames him for murder. McCallister then advises Matilda to marry Fuzzy so she will get the money wh
Raw Edge
1956 ★ 6.3A Texan arrives in Oregon and seeks justice for his innocently-hanged brother. Romance Western rape revenge lynching John Sherwood Universal International Pictu
Don't Torture a Duckling
1972 ★ 7.3A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outs
Mudbound
2017 ★ 7.4In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle
Linç
1970 ★ 6.6The film tells the story of a convict who fights against the injustice of prison management. Arap Kadir is new to prison. He earns prison leader Fethi’s trust i
Till
2022 ★ 7.3The true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins i
The Sun Shines Bright
1953 ★ 6.5With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman,
Johnny Reno
1966 ★ 6.5The townsfolk are set on lynching an accused killer held in the town lockup. But US Marshal Johnny Reno stands in their way. Topic: Film "Johnny Reno" (1966). R
Intruder in the Dust
1949 ★ 7.3Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white
Hang 'em High
1968 ★ 6.9Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former jo