12 Years a Slave(2013)

Combined Rating:
97
Combined Critics Rating: 96

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.



Django Unchained(2012)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 87

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.



Selma(2014)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 91

A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.



BlacKkKlansman(2018)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 90

Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.



Fences(2016)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.



The Help(2011)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 75

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.



Driving Miss Daisy(1989)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 76

An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.



Monster's Ball(2001)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard reexamines his attitudes while falling in love with the African American wife of the last prisoner he executed.



If Beale Street Could Talk(2018)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 91

A woman in Harlem desperately scrambles to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime while carrying their first child.



Guess Who's Coming to Dinner(1967)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African American fiancé.



Green Book(2018)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.



To Kill a Mockingbird(1962)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.



In the Heat of the Night(1967)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 33

An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.



The Great Race(1965)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A grand adventurous race takes place between the heroic Leslie and the despicable Professor Fate across three continents.



Glory(1989)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.



A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum(1966)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.



Skin(2018)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 32

A destitute young man, raised by racist skinheads and notorious among white supremacists, turns his back on hatred and violence to transform his life, with the help of a black activist and the woman he loves.



A Patch of Blue(1965)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.