10 inspirational movies about resilience that you must watch

1. The Banker

   • Featuring Samuel l. Jackson and Anthony Mackie 

   • Two African American entrepreneurs in the 60s fight against all odds to become bankers 

   • Available on Apple TV

2. Greenbook 

   • Featuring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali

   • A bouncer from an italian-american neighborhood in the Bronx is hired to drive a world-class black pianist on a concert tour to the Deep South from NYC 

   • Available on showtime 

3. Saint Judy

   • Featuring common and Michelle Monaghan 

   • Story of immigration attorney and how she initiatid the change in US law of asylum to save women’s lives, based on a true story 

   • Watch on Hulu or start with a subscription 

4. The Help

   • Featuring Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone and Viola Davis

   • Aspiring author during civil rights movements of the 60s writes a book about the viewpoint of the African American maids in the southern town she grew up in 

   • Watch on amazon prime and YouTube

5. Hidden Figures 

   • Featuring Taraji Henson, octavia Spencer, Janelle Mona

   • Story of a team of female African American mathematicians who were in NASA during early years of the US space program 

   • Watch on Hulu

6. Selma 

   • Directed by. Ava duvernay , featuring David oyelowo 

   • Chronicles Dr Kings campaign to get equal voting rights 

   • Available on amazon prime and YouTube 

7. Erin Brockovich

   • Featuring Julia Roberts and Albert Kinney

   • Unemployed single mom becomes a legal assistant and basically takes down a California power company. After they polluted city water supply and people got sick

   • Available on starz 

8. A League of their own

   • Featuring tom hanks, gene Davis 

   • Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league 

   • Watch on prime 

9. The Upside 

   • Featuring Kevin hart and Nicole Kidman

   • Comedy about a relationship between a wealthy man with quadriplegia and an unemployed man with criminal record who is hired to help him 

   • Watch on showtime 

10. Eat pray love

    • Featuring Julia Robert and Javier bardem 

    • A married woman is getting divorce and realizes she needs to find herself. Take her journey , based on true story 

    • Watch free on IMDB tv