Amma Asante’s 2013 British period drama tells of a remarkable time in the country’s history. The gently subversive film is based on the story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, born to a British admiral and a black woman, and raised by his aristocratic family in 18th-century England. Through a close and trusting relationship with her uncle’s family, she would play an important role in the ending of slavery.

Part of the Black Women's Retrospective which includes Daughters of the Dust and Welcome II the Terrordome