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7.1

♡ 11

100%

Documentary

racism

Frances Causey Director

Richard Nixon as (archive footage)

Martin Luther King as (archive footage)

Lyndon Johnson as (archive footage)

Amiri Baraka as Self

When filmmaker and investigative journalist Frances Causey, a daughter of the South, set out to explore the continuing racial divisions in the US, what she discovered was that the politics of slavery didn't end with the Civil War. In an astonishingly candid look at the United States' original sin, The Long Shadow traces slavery's history from America's founding up through its insidious ties to racism today.

Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten

2021

6.7

♡ 4

Jonathan Silvers Director

Michel Martin as Narrator

DeNeen L. Brown as Self - Reporter, The Washington post

Pastor Robert Turner as Self - Vernon A.M.E. Church, Tulsa

Learn about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, on the one hundredth anniversary of the crime, and how the community of Tulsa is coming to terms with its past, present, and future.

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches

2022

7.7

♡ 6

67%

Julia Marchesi Director

Jeffrey Wright as

Nicole Beharie as

Jonathan Majors as

Denzel Whitaker as

Acclaimed actors draw from five of Douglass’ legendary speeches, to represent a different moment in the tumultuous history of 19th century America as well as a different stage of Douglass’ long and celebrated life, while famed scholars provide context for the speeches, and remind us that Frederick Douglass’ words about racial injustice still resonate deeply today.

Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street

2021

7.2

♡ 3

95%

Salima Koroma Director

Brenda Alford as Self

Guy Troupe as Self

Hannibal Johnson as Self

Kristi Williams as Self

This documentary celebrates the Black cultural renaissance that existed in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, OK, and investigates the 100-year-old race massacre that left an indelible, though hidden stain on American history.

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

1970

7.4

♡ 3

75%

Terence Dixon Director

James Baldwin as Self

Beauford Delaney as Self

In 1970, a British film crew set out to make a straightforward literary portrait of James Baldwin set in Paris, insisting on setting aside his political activism. Baldwin bristled at their questions, and the result is a fascinating, confrontational, often uncomfortable butting of heads between the filmmakers and their subject, in which the author visits the Bastille and other Parisian landmarks and reflects on revolution, colonialism, and what it means to be a Black expatriate in Europe.

Respect

2021

6.6

♡ 53

68%

95%

african american

african american musician

Liesl Tommy Director

Heather Headley as Clara Ward

Forest Whitaker as C. L. Franklin

Myk Watford as Rick Hall

Marlon Wayans as Ted White

The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.

The Tuskegee Airmen

1995

7.1

♡ 26

86%

79%

Robert Markowitz Director

Laurence Fishburne as Hannibal Lee

Janet MacLachlan as Hannibal's Mother

Courtney B. Vance as Lt. Glenn

John Lithgow as Senator Conyers

During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. Known as the "Tuskegee Airman" for the name of the airbase at which they were trained, these men were forced to constantly endure harassement, prejudice, and much behind the scenes politics until at last they were able to prove themselves in combat.

The Six Triple Eight

2024

6.7

♡ 49

56%

72%

based on magazine, newspaper or article

Tyler Perry Director

Susan Sarandon as Eleanor Roosevelt

Dean Norris as General Halt

Kerry O'Malley as Mildred

Jon Wennington as Racist Officer

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six months.

The Long Walk Home

1990

7.3

♡ 13

88%

85%

1950s