The Birth of a Nation(2016)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.



Black Adam(2022)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods--and imprisoned just as quickly--Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.



Remember the Titans(2000)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.



Men of Honor(2000)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 64

The story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American, then also the first amputee, U.S. Navy Diver, and the man who trained him.



Blazing Saddles(1974)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 64

In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.



The Hate U Give(2018)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 85

Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right.



Harriet(2019)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 77

The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.



Malcolm X(1992)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam.



Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom(2013)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.



Amistad(1997)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 60

In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.



Dark Blue(2002)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.



Red Tails(2012)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.



Radio(2003)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 57

The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man who he took under his wing.



The Banker(2020)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 61

In the 1960s two African-American entrepreneurs hire a working-class white man to pretend to be the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and chauffeur.



Hairspray(1988)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.



Freedomland(2006)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.



White Material(2009)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Amidst turmoil and racial conflict in a Francophone African state, a white French woman fights for her coffee crop, her family and ultimately for her life.



Marshall(2017)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 73

About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.



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.




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