The Long Walk Home

"The Long Walk Home" (1990) centers on the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, following white housewife Miriam (Sissy Spacek) as she supports her Black maid Odessa (Whoopi Goldberg) by driving her to work, defying segregation laws. The film heavily promotes civil rights activism, racial solidarity, white allyship against systemic racism, and critiques of white privilege, with the historical events and social justice messaging driving the narrative over character-driven drama. Identity politics and progressive themes dominate, making it a quintessential example of pre-woke era advocacy cinema.