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Action, Drama, History. Glynn Turman, Tyler Perry, $0.08M, Approved
| After this film, you couldn’t talk about great American directors without also including Spike Lee. | | | Alan Autry, Documentary, History.
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Peter Francis James, |
Stars: Comedy. Kerry Washington,
Starletta DuPois, Votes: Stars:
Stars: Lloyd Avery II, Votes:
360 min
Toulou Kiki, Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice. Halle Berry, Most will be killed by other black males."
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This list also includes great movies about slavery (both Roots and Django Unchained, for example) and films about Black life in the American South throughout history, from Glory and A Time to Kill to The Help. Documentary, Comedy, Music.
Anthony Mackie, A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African-American community.
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Director: Ruby Dee, 627,246 Jamara Griffin, Martin Ritt
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The film features a who’s who of African-American leaders: John H. Johnson [founder of Ebony magazine]; St. Clair Drake, an important sociologist of race; Julian Bond; Bayard Rustin, a key [figure in the] March on Washington.
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Write to Olivia B. Waxman at olivia.waxman@time.com. Jefferson Thomas, A dramatized account of the story of The Black Panther Party of Self-Defense. Below, Jacqueline Stewart — host of Silent Sunday Nights on Turner Classic Movies and the network’s first black host — offers, in her own words, six suggestions of films to watch for insights into the black experience. 588 min | Gross:
Biography, Drama, Sport. Documentary, History. $95.00M, R |
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| Steve Harris, As February’s Black History Month observance rolls around, classrooms across the United States will turn their lesson plans to the African-American past — but the classroom isn’t the only place where that learning can happen.
He never wanted to exploit his scientific work for his own commercial gain.
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Director: David Hart, Documentary, History. Where to Watch: Library of Congress Youtube Channel, Amazon Prime, fuboTV, Kanopy. In addition to recent high-profile additions to the canon of movies about black history, like Harriet and Marshall, Hollywood history is rich with films that make fitting watching for Black History Month. At the same time, he was also the youngest person nominated.
Lou Gilbert,
Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
He insisted that the film had to be at least three hours long.
Kimberly Elise, | Stars: Director:
He was very private.
Stars: A couple's seemingly solid marriage begins to crumble when the wife discovers that her husband intends to divorce her.
| Ibrahim Ahmed, This film's director was also the first African-American director to be nominated for an Oscar. Céline Sciamma | Gross:
Martin Ritt Townsend uses satire to combat African-American stereotypes in the media. | | John Megna, | The film tells the story of... Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom is a 2013 British-South African biographical film directed by... 35+ Great Political Movies Based on True Stories. | Many Blaxsploitation films set in urban environments seem to glorify character types that are not heroic, not positive, such as drug dealers, and there’s a way in which these films show a superficial portrayal of black life. The stakes were so high, and people understood this was going to be film that would have a lasting impact on the ways people understood Malcolm X’s legacy.
Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc $57.50M. Director: A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit. This country owes him a huge debt.
| Bullard. And these days, that means seeking out complex, beautiful, and sometimes uncomfortable films about Black history, in an effort to be a more educated and stronger white ally. | Michael Kenneth Williams,
Peter Gilbert Milt Hinton, Director:
This is the only film based on the true story of a real historical figure I’m including because it’s just an epic film about a figure who is both controversial and beloved by so many African-American people. Jon Voight, Darren Grant Where to Watch: Amazon Prime, Fandango Now, Google Play, iTunes, Kanopy, Microsoft, Vudu, YouTube. 119,754 George W. Bush, Votes: Darnell Martin
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$58.20M, R Historical movies about famous Black people often focus on stories of bravery in the face of oppression. Madge Sinclair,
Ossie Davis, It was shot in black and white, so in many ways the style of the film echoes the style of classic Hollywood films. $50.63M. These films are entertaining, educating, and exhilarating. 10,293 | Biography, Drama, History. Comedy, Drama, Romance. Jada Pinkett Smith,
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16,025 His experiments in crop rotation, and rotating cotton with, as we all know, peanuts, created a new model for how agriculture should work in the South to benefit not just his people, but all southerners. Michael Mann
This film profiles the lives of the nine African-American students who integrated Central High in Little ... See full summary », Director:
R Frank Martin David Oyelowo, Anthony Hemingway Brian Helgeland |
Drama, Romance. R | Muhammad Ali, On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. | | |
Whoopi Goldberg, Stars:
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The film is really a reflection on the history of American filmmaking — whose stories get told in classic Hollywood films, whose stories are marginalized. Stars: 154 min PG | Gross: $116.63M, PG-13 | This film is directly responding to D.W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation (1915), in that Micheaux is saying that African Americans are also entitled to being full American citizens, and so it’s a film that’s remarkable in its political message. | | | 103 min Stars:
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