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1. Green Book (2018)
PG-13 | 130 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver for an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.
Director: Peter Farrelly | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco
Votes: 570,618 | Gross: $85.08M
2. The Help (2011)
PG-13 | 146 min | Drama
An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.
Director: Tate Taylor | Stars: Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard
Votes: 492,536 | Gross: $169.71M
3. 42 (2013)
PG-13 | 128 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
In 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era when he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers and faces considerable racism in the process.
Director: Brian Helgeland | Stars: Chadwick Boseman, T.R. Knight, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie
Votes: 102,644 | Gross: $95.00M
4. The Cider House Rules (1999)
PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Romance
A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.
Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Michael Caine, Delroy Lindo
Votes: 104,757 | Gross: $57.55M
5. The Great Debaters (2007)
PG-13 | 126 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.
Director: Denzel Washington | Stars: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Kimberly Elise, Nate Parker
Votes: 62,837 | Gross: $30.23M
6. 13th (2016)
TV-MA | 100 min | Documentary, Crime, History
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker, Dolores Canales
Votes: 37,660
7. A Jazzman's Blues (2022)
R | 127 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Follows an investigation into an unsolved murder unveiling a story full of forbidden love, deceit and a secret.
Director: Tyler Perry | Stars: Joshua Boone, Amirah Vann, Solea Pfeiffer, Austin Scott
Votes: 4,310
8. The Green Book: Guide to Freedom (2019 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, History
A deeper look into the real story of Victor H. Green's "The Negro Motorist Green Book" during the Jim Crow era and beyond.
Director: Yoruba Richen | Stars: Yoruba Richen, Marquette Folley, Karen Allen Baxter, Jennifer Ivey
Votes: 1,033
9. Honeydripper (2007)
PG-13 | 124 min | Crime, Drama, History
1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the ... See full summary »
Director: John Sayles | Stars: Danny Glover, LisaGay Hamilton, Yaya DaCosta, Charles S. Dutton
Votes: 2,193 | Gross: $0.27M
10. The House I Live In (2012)
Not Rated | 108 min | Documentary
From the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge, a penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy.
Director: Eugene Jarecki | Stars: Eugene Jarecki, David Simon, Shanequa Benitez, William Julius Wilson
Votes: 5,394 | Gross: $0.21M
11. I Passed for White (1960)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
A young girl meets and marries the man of her dreams--only she hasn't told him that she is half-black, and he and his rich family and friends are white.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox | Stars: Sonya Wilde, James Franciscus, Patricia Michon, Elizabeth Council
Votes: 320
12. Scattered Dreams (1993 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 95 min | Drama
A loving couple is trying to make a living in 1951 Florida when they are arrested for a crime they didn't commit.
Director: Neema Barnette | Stars: Tyne Daly, Gerald McRaney, Sonny Shroyer, Andrew Prine
Votes: 303
13. The Black Klansman (1966)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
After a black man's daughter is killed by the KKK, he seeks revenge by becoming a Klansman.
Director: Ted V. Mikels | Stars: Richard Gilden, Rima Kutner, Harry Lovejoy, Max Julien
Votes: 539
14. You Belong to Me (2014)
88 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
Over sixty years ago, a murder rocked Live Oak, Florida, and awakened the nation. Today, the ghosts still remain.
Director: John Cork | Stars: Gleene Harrell, Tameka Bradley Hobbs, Eric Musgrove, Edna Hindson
Votes: 186
15. Resting Place (1986 TV Movie)
PG | 100 min | Drama
The mysterious death of an army officer comes under investigation by Major Kendall Laird as the young soldier's parents seek an honorable burial place, out of respect for their son. The ... See full summary »
Director: John Korty | Stars: John Lithgow, Richard Bradford, Morgan Freeman, CCH Pounder
Votes: 642
16. Thurgood (2011 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
Prior to his appointment to United States Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall worked as a lawyer for the NAACP. This one man play tells the story of his role in the civil rights movement and the people that influenced him.
Director: Michael Stevens | Star: Laurence Fishburne
Votes: 589
17. Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (2022)
90 min | Documentary
It tells the story of the courageous campaign of citizens and activists who faced violence and oppression in the struggle for the right to vote
Directors: Geeta Gandbhir, Sam Pollard | Stars: Ella Baker, Stokely Carmichael, Courtland Cox, Mukasa Dada
Votes: 157
18. A Concerto Is a Conversation (2020)
13 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family's lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Directors: Kris Bowers, Ben Proudfoot | Stars: Kris Bowers, Horace Bowers Sr., Jim Burke, Brian Hayes Currie
Votes: 1,406
19. Slavery by Another Name (2012 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary, History
A documentary that recounts the many ways in which American slavery persisted as a practice many decades after its supposed abolition.
Director: Sam Pollard | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Turron Kofi Alleyne, Michael Bacon, Douglas A. Blackmon
Votes: 308
20. The New Girl (1960)
31 min | Short
To secure a lucrative government contract, a company agrees to not discriminate against minorities and integrates its office. Then all-white staff is horrified when an African-American secretary is hired.
Director: Lewis Freedman | Stars: Edward Asner, Chase Crosley, Gail Fisher, Peg Murray
Votes: 50
21. The Condemned Free (2022)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Bethel Bates | Stars: Kevin D. Benton, Rel Dowdell, Ras J. Jhondi Harrell, Xander J. Hobson
22. Blood Brother Chronicles
Action, Adventure, Crime | Pre-production
Set in 1922 South Carolina, The Blood Brother Chronicles centers around two half brother vigilante killers that soon discover they both have supernatural powers.
23. The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (2002)
56 min | Documentary, History
The history of legal official racial segregation in the USA.
Stars: Richard Roundtree, Hugh Morgan, Nicole Williams
Votes: 29
24. The Rancho High School Riots (2012 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary, History
Forty years after the tumultuous season of race riots that spread like wildfire through Rancho High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, the participants on all sides of the cultural divide come ... See full summary »
Director: Stan Armstrong | Stars: Michael Brophy, Dan Crevoisier, Antonio Fargas, Dan Gray
25. Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind (2000 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
Marcus Garvey emmigrated from Jamaica to New York City in 1914, bringing with him a message of black empowerment. After touring the United States with his message, his organization started ... See full summary »
Director: Stanley Nelson
Votes: 48
26. Familiar Fruit (2003)
5 min | Short, Drama
Director: Alrick Brown | Stars: Michael Anastasio, Ronald Auguste, Kyle Moroney, Rayland Van Blake
Votes: 10
27. War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: Herstory (2019)
22 min | Documentary, Short
"Herstory" is the 1st of 5 films that make up "War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory". Two historians discuss WWII Japanese war brides, how they survived the bombing of Japan, and met and married their former enemies during the US Occupation.
Director: Yayoi Winfrey | Stars: Regina F. Lark, Lily Anne Yumi Welty Tamai
28. Jim Crow Rd. (2022)
Documentary
Locals of Flowery Branch, Georgia are interviewed for their profoundly unique perspectives related to the tumultuous history geared behind the tug-of-war name change of "Jim Crow Road". The... See full summary »
Director: Leah Michelle Long | Stars: A.J. Alboumeh, Ed Asbridge, Faith Barnes, Jack Bennett
29. Life of Bertie Bowman: Documentary
Drama | Filming
In 1944, Bertie Bowman- a poor impressionable kid, heard South Carolina Senator Burnet Maybank declare: "If y'all ever get up to Washington, D.C., drop by and see me!" Though Maybank was ... See full summary »
Director: Cayman Grant | Stars: Bertie Bowman, Lauanah King-Cassell
30. Great Chat with Jesse Lee Peterson (2018 Video)
21 min | Short
In this segment from Jesse Lee Peterson's radio show, Peterson interviews the comedian Owen Benjamin. They discuss Hollywood, political correctness, fatherhood, Christianity, the word "racism", and more.
Stars: Jesse Lee Peterson, Owen Benjamin
31. Movies of Color: Black Southern Cinema (2002 Video)
55 min | Documentary
Film scholars discuss movies made by and for Blacks in the segregated America of the first half of the 20th century.
Director: Tom Thurman | Stars: Stanley Booth, John Cawelti, Bishetta Merritt, Charles Pace
32. War Brides of Japan (2018)
Documentary
WWII Japanese war brides share their stories of struggle and triumph. Arriving in the US alongside husbands who were their former enemies, they experienced being disowned by their Japanese families and rejection by their American in-laws.
Director: Yayoi Winfrey | Stars: Fumiko Kiyamura Caine Alderman, Elaine Ambrose, Myokei Caine-Barrett, Andy Campbell
33. Black Memorabilia (2018)
63 min | Documentary
Our modern global economy connects disparate individuals in unexpected ways. At the intersection of international commerce, racial identity, and historical narrative, this story follows the... See full summary »
Director: Chico Colvard | Star: Malcolm X
Votes: 40
34. Ferguson: A Special Report (2014 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 28 min | Documentary
Stars: Jon Alexander, Karina Arango, Anne-Marie Berger, Morgan Bradley
35. Serving for Justice: The Story of the 333rd Field Artillery Battalion (2020)
50 min | History
Amidst the horrors and indignities of Jim Crow America, one million African Americans served their country to protect democracy abroad and expand it at home during World War II. This ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Child | Stars: Nicholas Ammann, Rodrick Dorsey, Jeffrey T. Sammons
Votes: 40
36. Citizens at Last (2021 TV Movie)
87 min | History
Citizens at Last is a documentary film that tells the story of the grit, persistence, and tactical smarts of the Texas women who organized, demonstrated, and won the vote for women.
Director: Nancy Schiesari | Stars: Jennymarie Jemison, Angela Smith, Anne Hulsman, Carlisha Tennille Bell
37. St. Agnes Hospital: The Untold Story (2012)
31 min | Short, History
Director: Sheila Smith McKoy | Stars: Debra Clark Jones, Hengameh Allen, Irene Clark, Julia Reeves Smith
38. Locked Out: The Fall of Massive Resistance (2009 TV Special)
57 min | Documentary, History
Over fifty years ago there was a concerted effort by the elected leaders of many southern states to oppose racial desegregation of public schools. Following a mandate by the U.S. Supreme ... See full summary »
Director: Mason W. Mills | Stars: Daphne Reid, Doris Berryman, Henry Cabarrus Jr., Faye Coleman Hoes
39. Rhapsody in Black (2002 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary, Music
Ten black artists that changed the face of American music forever. Ten magical performances immortalized by CBC cameras. They lived in the United States in a time when racism was legal and ... See full summary »
Director: John Rahme | Stars: Marian Anderson, Cab Calloway, Nat 'King' Cole, Sammy Davis Jr.
40. War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: The Culture (2019)
58 min | Documentary
"The Culture" is the 4th of 5 films that make up "War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory". M. Fumie, Diana and Sophia (Yoshi), discuss their Japanese heritages. Michelle, Stephanie, and Hannah talk about being 3rd generation "quapa".
Director: Yayoi Winfrey | Stars: Yoshi Childs, M. Fumie Craig, Michelle Craig, Hannah Martinez
41. War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: BFF's; Buddhist Friends Forever (2019)
34 min | Documentary, Short
"BFF's: Buddhist Friends Forever" is the 5th of 5 films that make up "War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory". Two families and the daughter of a Japanese war bride are all linked through their Buddhist religion.
Director: Yayoi Winfrey | Stars: William Michael Factory Jr., Doris Factory, Kim Farrison, Mihoko Yoshihara Farrison
42. Oprah Is Coming (2018 Video)
Short, News
Stefan Molyneux examines the Golden Globes speech of Oprah Winfrey.
Star: Stefan Molyneux
43. War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: The Brides (2019)
54 min | Documentary
"The Brides" is the 2nd of 5 films that make up "War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory". Asako-san ("The Best Ambassador") married a white GI while Fumiko-san ("Kitchens and a Priest") married a black one.
Director: Yayoi Winfrey | Stars: Fumiko Kiyamura Caine Alderman, Myokei Caine-Barrett, Asako Sakaguchi Miller Kimes, Diane Caine Shirey
44. War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: The Kids (2019)
49 min | Documentary
"The Kids" is the 3rd of 5 films that make up "War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory". Roleta, Andy, Elaine, Naomi, Joan and Jean are all adult children of Japanese war brides, but each has their own unique story about growing up mixed-race.
Director: Yayoi Winfrey | Stars: Elaine Ambrose, Andy Campbell, Naomi M. Herrera, Jean H. Lahn
45. The Jim Crow Holocaust (2016)
Short, Drama
A young Muslim boy carries his heritage in the form of a item of clothing that he doesn't want. He is ridiculed and attacked for wearing it, which then gets ripped from him and desecrated. ... See full summary »
Director: Jacob Hayek | Stars: Alex O'Neal, Samantha Deutsch, Efraiem Hanna, Eman Fustok
Votes: 14
47. See My Dreams Come True (2016)
5 min | Short
"See My Dreams Come True" is a poetic work exploring the relationship between Black youth and the liberating potential of an unshackled body and imagination. Particularly, it is the tale of... See full summary »
Director: Vernon Jordan III | Stars: Mahogony Collins, Cypress Green, Sage Green
48. Chairman Jones: An Improbable Leader (2015)
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A farmer's fight to bring equal education for black children to rural Northampton County, NC during Jim Crow and Civil Rights Eras transforms him and his community in unimaginable ways.
Director: Anna Ruth Jones
49.
Supernatural (2005–2020)
Episode:
Route 666
(2006)
TV-14 | 50 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Dean is contacted by an ex-flame who asks him for help when black men in her hometown are being murdered by a driver-less racist truck.
Director: Paul Shapiro | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Kathleen Noone
Votes: 6,959
50.
Race: The Power of an Illusion (2003– )
Episode:
The Difference Between Us
(2003)
57 min | Documentary
Stars: Jim Brown, Alan Goodman, Stephen Jay Gould, Joseph Graves Jr.