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92
8.9
/23574/
84
/303/
84
/252/
4.5
/47635/
100
/56/
98
/90/
cc age 15+

O.J.: Made in America (2016)
A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.
poster
87
8.0
/121901/
78
/3412/
78
/1908/
4.4
/466606/
92
/150/
89
/3376/
93
/26/
cc age 16+

Do the Right Thing (1989)
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
poster
86
8.0
/186383/
75
/6972/
74
/1840/
4.3
/1378980/
95
/419/
85
/1971/
95
/63/
cc age 16+

One Battle After Another (2025)
Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
85
7.9
/24547/
79
/1216/
77
/498/
4.2
/62319/
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
83
7.7
/109091/
77
/3011/
75
/1801/
4.3
/171505/
89
/83/
91
/2301/
73
/15/
cc age 13+

Malcolm X (1992)
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
poster
83
7.5
/308779/
76
/15913/
74
/7882/
4.0
/1053152/
96
/448/
83
/1728/
83
/56/
cc age 15+

BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
poster
Disney Plus
82
7.3
/894994/
75
/52276/
73
/22988/
3.7
/2466625/
96
/526/
79
/9118/
88
/55/
cc age 12+

Black Panther (2018)
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
82
7.4
/14346/
75
/632/
71
/251/
3.7
/14122/
99
/126/
82
/459/
83
/25/
cc age 11+

20 Feet from Stardom (2013)
Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now.
poster
Netflix
81
7.4
/96660/
75
/4238/
73
/1636/
4.0
/319719/
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
Netflix
78
7.6
/15274/
76
/730/
74
/380/
3.9
/26023/
90
/51/
85
/105/
75
/12/
cc age 15+

What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)
The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate activist, told in her own words.
poster
Kanopy
77
7.4
/2205/
74
/190/
70
/61/
3.8
/3937/
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
Starz Apple TV Channel
74
7.3
/10480/
71
/212/
68
/129/
3.5
/3020/
82
/130/
77
/2112/
69
/33/
cc age 16+

Talk to Me (2007)
The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the 1960s.
poster
Starz
72
7.2
/122855/
75
/4458/
73
/2966/
3.4
/53754/
72
/199/
78
/3089/
65
/47/
cc age 13+

The Butler (2013)
A look at the life of Cecil Gaines, who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
poster
69
6.6
/22607/
68
/747/
64
/397/
3.5
/33904/
88
/48/
68
/480/
66
/10/
cc age 16+

Shaft (1971)
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
poster
Disney Plus
68
6.6
/344914/
68
/18422/
70
/7131/
3.3
/1140263/
84
/451/
93
/7104/
67
/62/
cc age 12+

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.
poster
AMC+
80
68
7.6
/2580/
78
/96/
75
/42/
4.0
/7544/
92
/53/
86
/71/
73
/15/
cc age 16+

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)
Examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in US society from 1967 to 1975. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists in the United States during that period and includes the appearances of Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and other activists, artists, and leaders central to the movement.
poster
Fandor
68
6.4
/4242/
61
/170/
61
/131/
3.5
/9753/
79
/91/

Coonskin (1975)
Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by going up against a con-man, a racist cop, and the Mafia.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
70
63
6.7
/4689/
69
/133/
63
/74/
3.7
/13656/
73
/15/
75
/119/

Putney Swope (1969)
Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.
poster
63
6.7
/12941/
68
/251/
62
/147/
3.9
/24346/
53
/107/
74
/623/
56
/39/
cc age 16+

Bamboozled (2000)
Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 21st century minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it becomes a smash hit.
poster
61
6.4
/2816/
69
/88/
62
/42/
3.4
/960/
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.
poster
74
57
7.2
/1835/
70
/66/
62
/32/
4.0
/6586/
77
/13/
83
/68/

The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.
poster
Criterion Channel
60
50
6.2
/3486/
65
/75/
62
/60/
3.5
/6798/
44
/9/
57
/106/

Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
While The Rolling Stones rehearse "Sympathy for the Devil" in the studio, an alternating narrative reflects on 1968 society, politics and culture through five different vignettes.
poster
Starz
73
46
7.2
/890/
55
/14/
51
/9/
3.6
/692/
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.
poster
60
40
6.3
/1903/
60
/36/
60
/39/
3.2
/1610/
52
/1661/

Fight for Your Life (1977)
A minister dispenses justice on three convicts who take his family hostage.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
61
32
6.7
/2657/
66
/48/
63
/41/
3.2
/690/
38
/8/
70
/4/

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013)
Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land.
poster
60
29
6.4
/743/
53
/23/
53
/21/
3.4
/959/
83
/12/
44
/5/

The Cool World (1963)
A fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to return them to active "bopping" (gang fighting) which has declined in Harlem.
poster
44
21
4.1
/1144/
50
/46/
43
/29/
2.7
/544/
34
/49/

Black Devil Doll (2007)
Five hot sexy young big-breasted chicks are raped, abused, tortured, and killed (?) by an evil jive-ass talking doll possessed by the spirit of an executed black militant death row inmate. Who will survive...
poster
73
13
7.0
/424/
76
/16/
68
/5/
3.9
/664/

Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony: A New World (2016)
With fireworks forming the word “Rio” in the sky and supermodel Gisele Bundchen shimmering to the tune of “The Girl from Ipanema,” Rio de Janiero welcomed the world to the first Olympic Games in South America with a serious message underlying the celebration: Let’s take care of our planet.
poster
The Roku Channel
40
12
4.5
/536/
40
/23/
41
/16/
2.9
/442/
17
/409/

Night Call Nurses (1972)
The sweet and perky Barbara, the sunny Janis, and the responsible Sandra are a trio of young and attractive nurses who work in the psych ward at a hospital. The threesome really have their hands full dealing with nutty patients, creepy stalkers, and black revolutionaries
poster
Criterion Channel
43
10
4.7
/303/
42
/9/
39
/11/
3.0
/489/
27
/24/

Maidstone (1971)
Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candidate and filmmaker Norman T. Kingsley debating and attacking his hangers-on and enemies. This gonzo narrative, “an inkblot test of Mailer’s own subconscious” (Time), becomes something like a documentary on its own making when costar Rip Torn breaks the fourth wall in one of cinema’s most alarming on-screen outbursts.
poster
64
9
6.4
/189/
51
/5/
69
/7/
3.7
/371/

Ashes and Embers (1982)
Ashes and Embers is an original screenplay by Haile Gerima, about a Vietnam veteran, who, several years after the war, is struggling to come to terms with his role in the war, and his role as a Black person in America. He survives by working odd jobs in Washington, D.C. and living with his girlfriend and her son. When criticism of his alienated behavior come from her and a father figure too often, he runs to the streets or to his grandmother's rural house in Virginia. Her criticism and his memories of the past both send him fleeing again to Los Angeles, where he is surrounded by superficial people who have forgotten how to be compassionate human beings. It is here that the advice of his friends and grandmother combine to transform him from an embittered ex-soldier to a strong and confident man.
poster
82
?
7.6
/40/
100
/1/
3.6
/429/

Othelo The Great (2024)
A beautifully told story using archival footage to explore the life of Grande Otelo, a groundbreaking Black Brazilian actor. Overcoming poverty and racism, he built a stellar career, facing controversy yet using it to challenge prejudice.
poster
?
7.6
/27/

Black Power Salute (2008)
A film about one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, the moment when the radical spirit of the 1960s upstaged the greatest sporting event in the world. Two men made a courageous gesture that reverberated around the world, and changed their lives forever. This film is about Tommie Smith and John Carlos' protest at the 1968 Olympics.
poster
Kanopy
?
6.1
/12/
20
/1/

Brownsville Black and White (2000)
Brownsville Black and White is the story of sixty years of Black/Jewish relations in the Brooklyn Community of Brownsville. The film is a poignant examination of group cooperation, urban change and social conflict as told through the personal histories of those who lived there. Brownsville is the first of two films dealing with inter-ethnic relations in the U.S., left unfinished after the untimely death of the director Richard Broadman. A small group of friends and colleagues completed the film after his death.
poster
?
10
/1/

Revolution Underway (1968)
This color propaganda film made National Education Program (NEP) as a warning to citizens of the USA about the subversive groups within the country looking to destroy the American system and its people. It dates to 1968, one of the most chaotic years in 20th Century American history.
poster
?
80
/1/

Jewelle: A Just Vision (2024)
Jewelle: A Just Vision traces the nodes of social movements from Civil Rights to Marriage Equality. It reveals radical Black and Indigenous feminist networks and thought that could shape what is to come. It drinks deeply from the art and activism of the incomparable Jewelle Gomez, Ioway & African American, Wampanoag, and Cape Verdean lesbian elder. Her life and work replenish humanity with fierce hope as her power swells into the world, from histories of Massasoit and her great-grandmother’s buckskin dress, queer Black ancestors, and slavery-era vampires to starry regenerative futures.
poster
?
7.5
/20/

My Survival as an Aboriginal (1979)
Essie Coffey gives the children lessons on Aboriginal culture. She speaks of the importance of teaching these kids about their traditions. Aboriginal kids are forgetting about their Aboriginal heritage because they are being taught white culture instead.
poster
?
7.8
/20/
43
/3/

Chicago Blues (1972)
Harley Cokeliss's Chicago Blues filmed in 1972 was a remarkable film; remarkable in that it was not just a competent documentary but a film crafted with care by professionals with a love and understanding of music and a respect for its history and artists. The music and its artists of Chicago Blues reflect faithfully the structure of the city's Blues activity of the late '60s from unknown amateur to world famous stars, from house to small bar, from traditional down home to modern city style. Thus Johnny Lewis, a housepainter who played for his own amusement at home and was almost a discovery of the film team, to Muddy Waters, Chicago Blues' most famous figure.
poster
88
?
9.1
/9/
85
/14/

Veneno (2021)
Silvia needs to get rid of a rat that has invaded the kitchen where she works while dealing with the growing abuses of her boss Suzana.
poster
73
?
5.7
/155/
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
?
7.9
/64/
50
/3/
70
/2/

Public Enemy: Prophets Of Rage (2011)
Fascinating documentary about the history and legacy of the rap group "Public Enemy".
poster
Kanopy
?
7.0
/43/
10
/1/

Two Laws (1982)
White people don't understand that there are two laws - white people have different laws from Aboriginal people. TWO LAWS is a film about history, law and life in the community of Borroloola in far North Queensland. The films offers viewers a remarkable and different way of seeing and hearing. Like the film, BACKROADS, it is one of the few productions at that time in which Aboriginal people had creative input. The impetus for TWO LAWS came from the community themselves. There was substantial collaboration with the film makers before and during the shooting period. It is one of the most outstanding films to be made during the 1980s. It is an historical analysis of what, nearly forty years later, is an increasingly contemporary question. Two Laws.
poster
?
8.2
/70/
55
/4/
49
/5/

68 (2012)
From Washington to Saigon, Rome to Mexico, Paris to Prague, a wave of protests shook the world. 68 looks back at the looks back at the Vietnam War, the Prague Spring and the Soviet Invasion, the Paris riots, Dubcek, Che Guevara, De Gaulle, Cohn-Bendrik and more. A dive into the chaos of a turbulent year, featuring fantastic colour footage and the music of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrisson and Bob Dylan.
poster
69
?
8.1
/33/
55
/2/
3.8
/365/

Finally Got the News (1970)
FINALLY GOT THE NEWS is a forceful, unique documentary that reveals the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and outside the auto factories of Detroit. Through interviews with the members of the movement, footage shot in the auto plants, and footage of leafleting and picketing actions, the film documents their efforts to build an independent black labor organization that, unlike the UAW, will respond to worker's problems, such as the assembly line speed-up and inadequate wages faced by both black and white workers in the industry. Beginning with a historical montage, from the early days of slavery through the subsequent growth and organization of the working class, FINALLY GOT THE NEWS focuses on the crucial role played by the black worker in the American economy. Also explored is the educational 'tracking' system for both white and black youth, the role of African American women in the labor force, and relations between white and black workers.
poster
The Roku Channel
44
?
4.5
/311/
52
/13/
37
/4/
3.0
/241/
29
/4/

Private Duty Nurses (1971)
A trio of beautiful private-duty nurses that practice more than the medical arts must confront underground drug traffickers, racism and murder in their local hospital.
poster
79
?
7.7
/12/
70
/1/
100
/1/
3.6
/297/

Happy in the Gap (2020)
A black essay on trains, beaches and space occupation.
poster
47
?
5.5
/745/
42
/9/
41
/8/

Che Guevara (2005)
When he is captured in Bolivia, the "Che" is conducted to prission, when he remembers his life facts, the revolution and the women.
poster
67
?
7.6
/471/
61
/15/
66
/9/

Salute (2008)
The black power salute by Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico Olympics was an iconic moment in the US civil rights struggle. Far less known is the part in that episode in history played by Peter Norman, the white Australian on the podium who had run second — and the price paid afterward by all three athletes.


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