Hollywood has a reputation for being a liberal bastion of political correctness. But as these appalling movies show, it wasn't always so.
Some of them—such as 1975's Mandingo—are almost fetishistically racist.
Others are fantastic movies degraded because stereotypical characters such as Long Duk Dong from "Sixteen Candles" or Mr. Yunioshi from "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
We've compiled a list of the worst racist indiscretions made in Hollywood from the very birth of film.
And there are a lot. Warning: Some of this material may be upsetting.
21. "North" (1994) had Inuit/Eskimo racism in one ridiculous scene.
In this strange and terrible film, Elijah Wood plays North, a child prodigy who "divorces" his parents and sets off on a cross country trip to find a new family. On the way he meets cowboys, Amish people and Inuits played by Kathy Bates, Graham Greene and Abe Vigoda.
The portrayal of Inuits was racist and the movie as a whole was a huge flop despite the star-studded cast and director (Rob Reiner).
20. "The Last Samurai" (2003) is a prime example of a "white savior" film.
Tom Cruise plays an ex-soldier who takes a job in Japan to help suppress a Samurai rebellion. However after he is captured by the Samurai, he learns their ways and saves them from being destroyed by the Japanese army by teaching them how to properly fight using their own techniques.
19. "Fantasia" (1940) features a half-man, half-donkey centaur who is black.
The "Pastoral Symphony" section of this classic Disney film used to feature a scene with a centaur named Sunflower who acts as a servant for the rest of the characters.
Sunflower, unlike the other centaurs who are half human-half horse, has half a donkey's body where the horse part should go. She's giddy and sloppy and was seen at one point polishing the hoofs of her white-centaur counterpart.
Disney took out the scene in versions of the film from the late 1960s. The fact that it was featured at all shouldn't be that shocking considering Disney's track record.
Check out the uncut version of "Pastoral Symphony" here.
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