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Films that Portray the African-American Experience

Above the Rim (1994)
Afro Promo (2006)
Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
America's Dream (1996)
Amistad (1997)
The Angel Levine (1970)
Antwone Fisher (2002)
Asunder (1998)
ATL (2006)
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
Barbershop (2003)
Beauty Shop (2005)
Beloved (1998)
The Blood of Jesus (1941)
Boomerang (1992)
Boyz N the Hood (1991)
Buck and the Preacher (1972)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Clara’s Heart (1989)
Cleopatra Jones (1973)
The Color Purple (1985)
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Crash (2005)
Crooklyn (1994)
Daughters of the Dust (1991)
Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Education of Sonny Carson (1974)
Emperor Jones (1933)
Eve's Bayou (1997)
Fighting Temptations (2003)
Freedom Song (2000)
Glory (1989)
God's Stepchildren (1938)
The Green Pastures (1936)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Hallelujah! (1929)
Higher Learning (1995)
Hustle and Flow (2005)
I Got the Hook Up (1998)
Idlewild (2006)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
The Inkwell (1994)

 pdfIsland in the Sun (1957)
The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Juice (1992)
King Vidor’s Hallelujah (1929)
Kingdom Come (2001)
Lackawanna Blues (2005)
Last Holiday (2006)
Laurel Avenue (1993)
A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
Love and Basketball (2000)
Madea's Class Reunion (2003)
Malcolm X (1992)
Mama Flora's Family (1998)
Man and Boy (1972)
Menace II Society (1993)
The Middle Passage (2000)
Miss Evers' Boys (1997)
New Jack City (1991)
Nothing But A Man (1964)
Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored (1995)
Pinky (1949)
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
River Niger (1976)
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (1978)
Roots (1977)
Roots: the Next Generations 1979
Rosewood (1997)
The Scar of Shame (1927)
School Daze (1988)
A Soldier's Story (1984)
Something New (2006)
Soul Food (1997)
Sounder (1972, 2002)
The Spook Who Sat By the Door (1973)
Sugar Hill (1988)
To Sir With Love (1967)
Two Can Play That Game (2001)
Uncle Tom's Cabin 1927
Underworld (1937)
Waiting to Exhale (1995)
Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998)
Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)