Open-Minded
Thinkers
Common Sense, Black Thought/The Roots, Aceyalone, The Coup, Dead Prez, Bahamadia, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Apani B. Fly, Tribe C. Q., Nas, Saul Williams, Kos, Hieroglyphics, Last Poets, P.E., Wu, Boney James, Lauryn Hill, Badu, Jodeci, Mary J, Faith, Keyshia Cole, Jamiroquai, Rochelle Farrell, Miles Davis, Coltrane, and on and on...
Matrix (W. Bros. Trilogy; still not sure if they stole your script Ms. Stewart, but keepin the eye open), Lord of the Rings (Long watch but intensely continual; parallelisms), Color Purple, Roots, Jurassic Park (1st one), Ice Age (big kid too), Malcolm X, Inherit the Wind, Kung Fu Hustle, Their Eyes Were Watching God, X-Men (Trilogy), The Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy, Amistad, Love Jones, Love and Basketball, Brown Sugar, Sixth Sense, Enemy of the State, Cypher, Equilibrium, many more...
Not into too much brain-washing, but: Naruto, The Boondocks (Much Respect A. McGruder), C-Span, Hidden Truth, and some other stuff that doesn't even have weight enough for me to recall.
Last real read was a forced read (but appreciative that it was): Siddhartha
The term "Heroes" is a bit too over the top, but as for inspirational personas: Malcolm X, Martin King II, Mahotma Ghandi, any revolutionary that desire(s)/(d) positive progressive change for humanity to evolve in the way nature intended, peacefully.