African American must see film list
I’m working on a list of black film classics or at least were popular enough to be on a must see list. Please comment with more, and I’ll be updating this frequently. Eventually, I’ll get it organized but I wanted to at least get the post started. Some aren’t necessarily black films but celebrate accomplished black actors or cover topics related to race relations.
(in alphabetical order)
- 4 Little Girls
- 8 Mile
- A Raisin in the Sun
- Akeelah and the Bee
- Antwone Fisher
- Baby Boy
- Bamboozled
- Before Women Had Wings
- Beverly Hills Cops
- Boomerang
- Boyz in the Hood
- Car Wash
- Claudine
- Cleopatra Jones
- Coming to America
- Cooley High
- Crash
- Crooklyn
- Cry Freedom
- Dave Chapelle’s Block Party
- Dead Presidents
- Deliver Us From Eva
- Desert Bayou
- Do The Right Thing
- Dolemite
- Foxy Brown
- Friday
- Get on the Bus
- Glory
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
- Hairspray
- Harlem Nights
- He Got Game
- Higher Learning
- Hitch
- How Stella Got Her Groove Back
- Hustle & Flow
- I Am Legend
- Jason’s Lyric
- John Q
- Jungle Fever
- Love Jones
- Malcolm X
- Menace to Society
- Mississippi Burning
- Mississippi Massala
- Mo’ Better Blues
- New Jack City
- Philadelphia
- Pride
- Purple Rain
- Ray
- Sarafina
- School Daze
- Sister Act
- Something New
- Soul Food
- Sprung
- Superfly
- The Best Man
- The Color Purple
- The Hurricane
- The Inkwell
- The Manchurian Candidate
- The Preacher’s Wife
- The Pursuit of Happyness
- To Kill A Mockingbird
- Tsotsi
- Undercover Brother
- Waiting to Exhale
- When the Levees Broke
- Why Did I Get Married?