mdblist.com logo Movie Search


Ratings
Between
and
Between
and
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Additional filters
m
Lists, Streaming Services, Cast and more
Create List (34 items)

Login to create a dynamic list


87
8.2
/39132/
81
/2484/
79
/773/
4.3
/117244/
97
/105/
90
/240/
81
/29/
cc age 16+

13th (2016)
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
86
8.8
/2468430/
85
/54531/
84
/29179/
4.2
/3515459/
75
/157/
95
/92568/
82
/21/
cc age 13+

Forrest Gump (1994)
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
85
7.9
/24650/
79
/1233/
77
/504/
4.2
/63884/
99
/210/
83
/257/
95
/36/
cc age 13+

I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
poster
81
7.4
/113760/
75
/4321/
73
/1660/
4.0
/327234/
96
/358/
95
/178/
84
/49/
cc age 15+

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
poster
80
7.5
/43284/
80
/3139/
80
/2196/
3.7
/137821/
97
/225/
81
/725/
81
/44/
cc age 13+

The Hate U Give (2018)
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.
79
7.7
/203979/
77
/7500/
76
/3261/
3.8
/406751/
89
/344/
90
/454/
76
/49/
cc age 16+

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.
77
7.4
/2215/
74
/193/
70
/61/
3.8
/3988/
92
/65/
71
/28/
79
/20/

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)
The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal activity; but this is an essential story, vibrant, human; a living and breathing chronicle of a pivotal movement that birthed a new revolutionary culture in America.
poster
73
6.6
/826/
66
/49/
61
/43/
3.5
/790/
91
/34/
74
/7/
73
/12/

(T)ERROR (2015)
This real-life look at FBI counterterrorism operations features access to both sides of a sting: the government informant and the radicalized target.
72
6.8
/63286/
67
/888/
64
/755/
3.7
/56819/
76
/161/
69
/7345/
73
/35/
cc age 16+

I'm Not There (2007)
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.
72
6.9
/667/
68
/41/
65
/8/
3.7
/562/
100
/5/
54
/4/

Burn Motherfucker, Burn! (2017)
An in-depth and provocative look at the 1992 Los Angeles riots exploring the roots of civil unrest in California and the relationship between African Americans and LAPD.
72
7.2
/123250/
75
/4495/
73
/2979/
3.4
/55558/
72
/199/
78
/3088/
65
/47/
cc age 13+

The Butler (2013)
Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with alcoholism and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way.
poster
69
7.4
/6315/
74
/165/
75
/132/
3.8
/28962/
59
/17/
76
/47/

Four Days in September (1997)
Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.
poster
69
6.9
/26520/
65
/341/
64
/299/
3.4
/4945/
67
/128/
69
/767/
63
/38/

The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and the bank won’t give him any money to start anew. He tries to find someone to blame for his misfortunes and comes up with the President of the United States who he plans to murder.
66
6.2
/1905/
67
/71/
52
/25/
3.3
/963/
79
/56/
66
/83/
65
/18/

Night Catches Us (2010)
After growing up during the tumultuous 1960s, ex-Black Panther Marcus returns to his home in Philadelphia in 1976 and reconnects with Pat, the widow of a Panther leader. Marcus befriends Pat's young daughter and attempts to conquer his demons. Interfering with Marcus's good intentions are the neighborhood's continuing racial and social conflicts, as well as old enemies and friends -- both with scores to settle.
poster
61
6.4
/2834/
69
/88/
62
/43/
3.4
/990/
27
/11/
76
/63/

Panther (1995)
In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as the Panthers battle for the right to exist.
75
60
7.4
/3022/
74
/127/
71
/93/
4.1
/33086/

Black Panthers (1968)
A film shot during the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California around the meetings organised by the Black Panthers Party to free Huey Newton, one of their leaders, and to turn his trial into a political debate. They tried and succeeded in catching America’s attention.
60
6.3
/2461/
70
/43/
55
/33/
3.2
/573/
52
/42/
71
/104/
36
/26/
cc age 16+

Steal This Movie (2000)
Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left.
73
46
7.2
/891/
55
/15/
51
/9/
3.6
/710/
100
/9/
85
/43/
78
/5/

A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)
The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.
66
41
6.6
/445/
64
/25/
56
/13/
95
/20/
46
/615/
74
/11/

Commune (2005)
In 1968, Elsa and Richard Marley founded an alternative-living community, named Black Bear, in the remote Northern California wilderness with the motto "Free Land for Free People." This film tells the story of that intended utopia. Through archival footage and interviews with former residents, director Jonathan Berman explores the problems and realities of communal living and the evolution of a community that endured FBI harassment, cult leadership and more.
76
41
7.4
/652/
74
/13/
65
/17/
3.5
/729/
91
/44/
85
/17/
77
/22/

The Cockettes (2002)
Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
poster
61
36
6.5
/2055/
63
/60/
66
/70/
3.3
/2116/
45
/2/

Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
poster
?
6.3
/16/

The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation (2008)
The gripping story of Robert King Wilkerson, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox, men who endured solitary confinement longer than any known living prisoner in the United States. Politicized through contact with the Black Panther Party while inside Louisiana's prisons, they formed one of the only prison Panther chapters in history and worked to organize other prisoners.
63
?
7.8
/192/
63
/16/
15
/2/
3.7
/311/

Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (2022)
Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, this documentary tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Power in Lowndes County, Alabama.
55
?
7.2
/46/
61
/5/
10
/1/
3.8
/410/

A Place of Rage (1991)
Featuring enlightening interviews with Angela Davis, June Jordan, and Alice Walker, this essential documentary is an exuberant celebration of Black American women and their achievements. Within the context of the civil rights, Black power, feminist, and LGBT movements, the trio reassess how women such as Rosa Parks and Fannie Lou Hamer revolutionized American society and the world.
poster
73
?
5.7
/156/
75
/10/
60
/1/
100
/6/

Black Power: A British Story of Resistance (2021)
An examination of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s in the UK, surveying both the individuals and the cultural forces that defined the era. At the heart of the documentary is a series of astonishing interviews with past activists, many of whom are speaking for the first time about what it was really like to be involved in the British Black Power movement, bringing to life one of the key cultural revolutions in the history of the nation.
poster
?
7.3
/57/
100
/1/
100
/3/

In the Land of the Free... (2010)
Tells the shocking and unbelievable story of Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King, three black men from rural Louisiana who were held in solitary confinement in the biggest prison in the U.S., an 18,000-acre former slave plantation known as Angola.
poster
69
?
7.4
/268/
70
/5/
45
/5/
3.6
/277/
88
/2/

Classified X (1998)
A history of the racially stereotyped portrayal of African Americans in cinema, hosted by film pioneer Melvin Van Peebles.
poster
59
?
6.4
/309/
50
/4/
52
/6/
75
/12/

Black August (2007)
The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an existence under subjective and objective conditions in California's industrial prison complex. George Jackson would spend 11 years in jail (7 of which were in solitary confinement) for a $70 gas station robbery crime in 1960. He was 18 years of age when the sentence of one year-to-life was handed down to him.
73
?
6.7
/148/
57
/7/
70
/3/
3.6
/414/

American Revolution 2 (1969)
“AMERICAN REVOLUTION 2” includes footage of the 1968 Democratic Convention protest and riot, a critique of events by working class African-Americans in Chicago, and attempts by the Black Panther Party to organize poor, southern white youths.
poster
72
?
8.1
/567/
80
/15/
54
/9/
76
/8/

Bastards of the Party (2005)
Surrounded by death and the brutal lifestyle that feeds it, a Los Angeles gangbanger explores the history of Southern California street gangs from the 1950s through the 1990s in an attempt to fully understand his existence. Bastards of the Party humanizes the staggering casualties of the LA gang wars.
poster
45
?
6.0
/114/
35
/2/
40
/1/

Public Enemy: Reflections of The Black Panthers (1999)
A documentary film about The Black Panther Party as told by its four former members.
poster
?
7.2
/31/
10
/1/
70
/1/

Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy (1970)
In the aftermath of the arrest of Angela Davis, Jean Genet reads a text denouncing racist US policy, supporting the Black Panthers party and Angela Davis for a television show that will be completely censored.
poster
?

Assata aka Joanne Chesimard (2008)
Through dramatic re-creation, archival newsreel footage and revealing interviews, director Fred Baker's docudrama explores the controversial murder case centered on Black Panther activist and political exile Assata Shakur. In 1977, Shakur was dubiously convicted for the shooting death of a New Jersey state trooper and was sentenced to life in prison, only to escape two years later and seek refuge in Cuba.
?

The Thursday Club (2005)
In October 1967, documentary filmmaker George Paul Csicsery was beaten by police at an antiwar demonstration in Oakland, California. Thirty years later, he set out to find the policemen who were working that day. His only clue-a startling news photograph of himself begin clubbed by stern-faced cops. Take a trip back to America's turbulent 1960s as Csicsery visits a group of retired Oakland, California, policemen, who recall their days battling antiwar demonstrators and Black Panthers.


mdblist.com © 2020 | Contact | Reddit | Discord | API | Privacy Policy