The Learning Tree(1969)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 11

The story, set in Kansas during the 1920s, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The ...



Losing Ground(1982)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A comedy-drama about a Black American female philosophy professor and her insensitive, philandering, and flamboyant artist husband who are having a marital crisis. When the wife goes off on...



Klansman(1974)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A local Sheriff tries to keep the peace as racial strife hits his small Alabama town as tensions boil over when a black man is accused of raping a white woman.



The Spook Who Sat by the Door(1973)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.



Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored(1995)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.



Poor Boy's Game(2007)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Donnie Rose went to prison for beating a young man so brutally it left him handicapped for life. Nine years later, Donnie is out. He's a different man with only one place to go: back home ...



The Wilby Conspiracy(1975)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Black anti-apartheid activist and British engineer are forced to run from South African secret police.



True Identity(1991)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 5

In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.



Prayer of the Rollerboys(1990)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Set in an unspecified time in the future, USA has declined and become a country of violence and racial prejudice. Griffin earns his living delivering pizzas while he tries to take care of ...



Three the Hard Way(1974)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

The story involves a white supremist plot to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is harmless to whites but lethal to blacks. The only obstacles that stand in the way of ...



The Thing with Two Heads(1972)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Doctors are forced to transplant the head of a dying, racist surgeon onto the body of a black death row inmate.



Drop Squad(1994)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Political satire about an underground militant group that kidnaps African-Americans who have sold out their race. The story follows as the group led Curtis-Hall and Rhames kidnaps an ...



Simply Black(2020)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A politically incorrect comedy, about the role of black people in French society.



Changing the Game(2012)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 4

An epic tale about a supremely intelligent young African-American male who rises from the ferocious and oppressive streets of North Philadelphia to being a shining star in the lucrative ...



The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1960)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Mark Twain's 1851 story about two runaway friends, a fostered white boy and an escaped black slave, who sailed on a raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom and adventure.



Your Host(2025)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Four friends get trapped in a sadistic game show, forced to outwit a twisted serial killer while racing against time. Every move brings them closer to freedom or a gruesome fate.



Tiger(2018)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A practicing Sikh is banned by the boxing commission for refusing to back down from his religious beliefs. Through racial profiling and stereotypical threats, he does what any strong American would do, fight back.



One Potato, Two Potato(1964)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Study of interracial marriage in the 1960's. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed...



Greased Lightning(1977)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper tier NASCAR race.



Skin Game(1971)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 1857, con man Quincy Drew and his black friend Jason O'Rourke swindle slave owners into buying Jason, who's a free man, and later share the profits when Jason escapes captivity.




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