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Poll: Black History Movies

February is Black History Month and the movies below chart several Black experiences over the past few hundred years. All of the films are either based on true stories or are documentaries. Which movie do you think illustrates a piece of Black history most powerfully?

Celebrate and contemplate here.

Note: Movies are in alphabetical order.

Make Your Choice

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    12 Years a Slave (2013)

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    13th (2016)

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    42 (2013)

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    4 Little Girls (1997)

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    Ali (2001)

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    American Violet (2008)

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    Amistad (1997)

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    Black Girl (1966)

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    BlacKkKlansman (2018)

  10. Vote!
     

    The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)

  11. Vote!
     

    Cry Freedom (1987)

  12. Vote!
     

    Desert Flower (2009)

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    Fruitvale Station (2013)

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    Glory (1989)

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    Goodbye Bafana (2007)

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    The Great Debaters (2007)

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    Harriet (2019)

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    Hidden Figures (2016)

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    Hotel Rwanda (2004)

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    I Am Not Your Negro (2016)

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    Invictus (2009)

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    Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

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    Just Mercy (2019)

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    Loving (2016)

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    Malcolm X (1992)

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    Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)

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    Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)

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    Marshall (2017)

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    Paris Is Burning (1990)

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    Race (2016)

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    Ray (2004)

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    The Rosa Parks Story (2002)

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    Selma (2014)

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    Something the Lord Made (2004)

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    Straight Outta Compton (2015)


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