Ragtime

Ragtime

The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age.

1981155 min7.0 / 10

A sweeping historical drama that weaves together the lives of a black pianist and an upper-class white family against the backdrop of early 1900s New York, exploring themes of racial injustice, class conflict, and the violent undercurrents of America's Gilded Age.

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

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