History Film / AUnitedKingdom

* KickTheDog: After Ruth is becomes alienated from own her family and country because she chose to defy the prejudice and institutionalised racism by marrying Seretse, she moves to South Africa with her husband only for the for the locals, including his sister and aunt to treat her like dirt as well.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Seretse himself calls out in his RousingSpeech that his people are enabling the very same racism and segregation that is oppressing them because they no longer want him as their king simply because of his bi-racial marriage to Ruth, His sister and Aunt dress down Ruth down and tell her she doesn’t belong in Bechuanaland, which is the exact kind of thing that racist people in the United Kingdom would say to a person of color.

Has nothing to do with the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Belle}}'', also directed by Amma Asante, and also focusing on a historical racial story.

''A United Kingdom'' is a 2016 British Biographical Romantic {{Drama}} film directed by Amma Asante, written by Guy Hibbert, and starring Creator/DavidOyelowo and Creator/RosamundPike.

** Then it's flipped around in that Ruth's working-class lifestyle is more developed than that of Seretse's people.

-->'''Brockley''': I am pleading with you, send him home before Churchill does. It will be an almighty humiliation if a Tory government fulfils a responsibility that should have been ours.

* {{Jerkass}}: Sir Alastair and Lancaster, two utterly smug, smarmy, bigoted British officials.

* JerkassHasAPoint: The Prime Minister who refuses to interfere in Seretse's situation sneers at America's hypocritical condemnation of his inaction, citing the country's Jim Crow laws.
** The two snooty British ladies who urge Ruth to go to a better equipped hospital in South Africa truthfully point out that she could be risking her's and her baby's health if she doesn't.

* UptownGirl: Gender-inverted: Seretse's romance is an heir apparent, while Ruth is an office worker. Racial difference aside, this is one of the other reasons why one of his friends denounces the relationship.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Benn and Brockley urging Attlee to end Seretse's exile after Churchill declares his intention to do so in the run-up to the General Election, effectively signalling the British government's support of interracial marriage in Africa against the opposition of the South African government, calls to mind similar talking points about the Conservatives rather Labour having been the party to pass same-sex marriage into law in England and Wales in 2014:

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Benn and Brockley urging Attlee to end Seretse's exile after Churchill declares his intention to do so in the run-up to the General Election, effectively signalling the British government's support of interracial marriage in Africa against the opposition of the South African government, calls to mind similar talking points about the Conservatives rather Labour having been the party to pass same-sex marriage into law in 2014:

* YoungFutureFamousPerson: A young Tony Benn comes to Seretse's aid while he's in exile in Britain.

'''Brockley''': I am pleading with you, send him home before Churchill does. It will be an almighty humiliation if a Tory government fulfils a responsibility that should have been ours.

** UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill is depicted as such, after publicly declaring that if he was elected he would end Seretse's five year banishment, he wins the election and then makes Seretse’s banishment indefinite.

** UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill is depicted as such, after publicly declaring that if he was elected he would end Seretse's five year banishment, he wins the election and then makes Seretse’s banishment for life.

** UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill is depicted as such, after publicly declaring that if he was elected he would end Seretse's five year banishment. Churchill wins the election and then makes Seretse’s banishment for life.

** UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill is depicted as such, after publicly declaring that if he was elected he would end Seretse's five year banishment. Churchill wins the election and then makes Seretse’s banishment permanent.