Originally released: January 6, 2017
Director: Theodore Melfi
Run Time: 2 hours 8 minutes
Stream: Disney Plus
Rent: Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play
Short Summary (Google): Three brilliant African-American women at NASA -- Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson -- serve as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation's confidence, turned around the Space Race and galvanized the world.
Originally released: April 19, 2020
Director: Chris Bolan
Run Time: 1 hour 13 minutes
Stream: Netflix
Short Summary (Wikipedia): A former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player, Terry Donahue, and her partner, Pat Henschel, ran a successful interior decorating business while keeping their lesbian relationship a secret from their families for almost seven decades.
Originally released: May 31, 2019
Director: Ava DuVernay
Number of Episodes: 4
Stream: Netflix
Short Summary (Wikipedia): When They See Us is based on events of April 19, 1989, Central Park jogger case and explores the lives of the five suspects who were prosecuted on charges related to the sexual assault of a female victim, and of their families. The five juvenile males of color, the protagonists of the series: Kevin Richardson (Asante Blackk), Antron McCray (Caleel Harris), Yusef Salaam (Ethan Herisse), Korey Wise (Jharrel Jerome), and Raymond Santana (Marquis Rodriguez), were divided by the prosecutor into two groups for trial. Each youth was convicted by juries of various charges related to the assault; four were convicted of rape. They were sentenced to maximum terms for juveniles except for Korey Wise, who was 16 at the time of the crime and treated as an adult by the legal system. He had been held in adult facilities and served his time in adult prison. They filed a suit against the city in 2003 for wrongful conviction and were awarded a settlement in 2014.
Originally released: July 15, 2003
Created by: David Collins, Micheal William
Number of Seasons: 5 (with a reboot of 6 seasons on Netflix)
Stream: Peacock
Rent: Amazon
Short Summary (Wikipedia): Queer Eye is a television franchise based upon a team of gay professionals (the "Fab 5") giving lifestyle and fashion makeovers to guests.
Originally released: March 25, 2020
Director: Nicole Newnham, James Lebrecht
Run Time: 1 hour 48 min
Stream: Netflix
Short Summary (Crip Camp Website): In the early 1970s, teenagers with disabilities faced a future shaped by isolation, discrimination, and institutionalization. Camp Jened, a ramshackle camp “for the handicapped” (a term no longer used) in the Catskills, exploded those confines. Jened was their freewheeling Utopia, a place with summertime sports, smoking, and make-out sessions awaiting everyone, and campers experienced liberation and full inclusion as human beings. Their bonds endured as many migrated West to Berkeley, California — a hotbed of activism where friends from Camp Jened realized that disruption, civil disobedience, and political participation could change the future for millions.