List of racism-related films
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This is a list of films that deal with the topic of race or racism. (*) mark are documentary films.
1910s
[edit]United States
[edit]1915
1916
1919
- Broken Blossoms (1 remake: UK, 1936)
- Within Our Gates
Oscar Micheaux 1920
1920s
[edit]United States
[edit]1920
1930s
[edit]United States
[edit]1930
1936
1939
Other Countries
[edit]- Triumph of the Will (Germany, 1935)
- Circus (USSR, 1936)
1940s
[edit]United States
[edit]1942
1943
1947
1949
Other Countries
[edit]- The Eternal Jew (Germany, 1940)
- Jud Süß (Germany, 1940)
- Angelitos negros (Mexico, 1948) (1 remake: Mexico, 1970)
1950s
[edit]United States
[edit]1950
1951
1952
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
- The Defiant Ones
- The Mark of the Hawk (US/UK)
1959
- Come Back, Africa (South Africa/US)
- The Crimson Kimono
- The Cry of Jazz*
- The Hate That Hate Produced* TV
- Imitation of Life
- Odds Against Tomorrow
- Shadows
- Shock Corridor
Other Countries
[edit]- Cry, the Beloved Country (UK, 1951)
- Native Son (Argentina, 1951)
- Mulata (Mexico, 1954)
- Yambaó (México/Cuba, 1957)
- Black Orpheus (Brazil/France/Italy, 1959)
- Kiku to Isamu (Japan, 1959)
- Sapphire (UK, 1959)
1960s
[edit]United States
[edit]1960
1961
- Bridge to the Sun (France/US)
- Paris Blues
- A Raisin in the Sun (1 remake: 2008 TV)
- West Side Story (1 remake: 2021)
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1 remake: 2006)
- Hurry Sundown
- In the Heat of the Night (2 sequels: 1970, 1971)
- The Story of a Three-Day Pass
1968
- Black Panthers* (France/US)
- Finian's Rainbow (Ireland/US)
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- Planet of the Apes (filmseries)
1969
Other Countries
[edit]- Flame in the Streets (UK, 1961)
- The Human Pyramid (Ivory Coast, 1961)
- The Battle of Algiers (Italy/Algeria, 1966)
- Black Girl (Senegal/France, 1966)
- Fair Wind, "Blue Bird"! (Soviet Union/Yugoslavia, 1967)
- To Sir, with Love (UK, 1967)
- Death By Hanging (Japan, 1968)
- Story of a Three Day Pass (France, 1968)
- Blood of the Condor (Bolivia, 1969)
- Katrina (South Africa, 1969)
- Medea (Italy/France/West Germany, 1969)
1970s
[edit]United States
[edit]1970
- The Eye of the Storm* TV (1 sequel: 1985 TV)
- The Great White Hope
- Is It Always Right to Be Right?
- The Landlord
- ...tick...tick...tick...
- Watermelon Man
1971
- Honky
- Brian's Song TV
- Brother John
- Shaft (filmseries)
- Vanishing Point (1 remake: 1997 TV)
1972
- Buck and the Preacher
- The Final Comedown
- Lady Sings the Blues
- Sounder (1 sequel: 1976)
- Stigma TV
1973
1974
1975
- The California Reich*
- Coonskin
- Mandingo (1 sequel: 1976)
1976
1977
1978
- The Boys from Brazil (UK/US)
- Lawman Without a Gun TV
1979
Other Countries
[edit]- Soleil O (Mauritania/France, 1970)
- Fist of Fury (Hong Kong, 1972)
- Fantastic Planet (FR/CZ, 1973)
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (West Germany, 1974)
- Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Algeria, 1975)
- The Common Man (France, 1975)
- The Wilby Conspiracy (UK, 1975)
- Albino (West Germany/UK/South Africa/Rhodesia, 1976)
- Pressure (UK, 1976)
- Game for Vultures (UK, 1979)
1980s
[edit]United States
[edit]1981
- Crisis At Central High TV
- Lion of the Desert (Libya/US)
- Ragtime
1982
- A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion TV
- The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America*
- Midnight
- Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle*
- White Dog
1983
1984
- The Cotton Club
- The Killing Floor TV
- Places in the Heart
- A Soldier's Story
- The Times of Harvey Milk*
1985
1986
1987
- Ethnic Notions* (1 sequel: 1992*)
- A Gathering of Old Men TV
- Who Killed Vincent Chin?*
1988
- Alien Nation (franchise)
- Betrayed
- Bird
- Colors
- For Queen and Country (UK/US)
- Hairspray
- Mississippi Burning
- School Daze
- Stand and Deliver
- Talk Radio
1989
- Dead Bang
- Do the Right Thing
- Driving Miss Daisy
- A Dry White Season (US/France)
- Glory
- Lean on Me
- Lethal Weapon 2
- The Lunch Date
- My Past Is My Own TV
Other Countries
[edit]- Manganinnie (Australia, 1980)
- Speak White* (Canada, 1980)
- Gandhi (UK/India, 1982)
- Made in Britain TV (UK, 1982)
- Pink Floyd – The Wall (UK, 1982)
- Bread TV (Israel, 1986)
- Cry Freedom (UK/Zimbabwe, 1987)
- Blind Justice (UK, 1988)
- A World Apart (UK/Zimbabwe, 1988)
1990s
[edit]United States
[edit]1990
1991
- Blood in the Face*
- Boyz n the Hood
- Brother Future TV
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- Jungle Fever
- Mississippi Masala (UK/US)
- Paris Trout TV
1992
- Candyman (film series)
- Imagining Indians*
- Incident at Oglala
- Love Field
- Malcolm X
- The Power of One (France/Germany/Australia/US)
- Sarafina (US/South Africa/UK/France)
- School Ties
- White Men Can't Jump
- Zebrahead
1993
- Amos & Andrew
- A Bronx Tale
- Class of '61 TV
- Combination Platter
- The Ernest Green Story TV
- Menace II Society
- Sankofa (Burkina Faso/Germany/Ghana/US/UK)
- Schindler's List
1994
- Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker TV
- Corrina, Corrina
- Forrest Gump
- The Glass Shield
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Whitewash TV
1995
- Cry, the Beloved Country (South Africa/US)
- Dangerous Minds
- Devil in a Blue Dress
- A Father for Charlie TV
- Higher Learning
- The Infiltrator TV
- Jefferson in Paris (FR/US)
- The Journey of August King
- Losing Isaiah
- Pocahontas
- The Shadow of Hate*
- Tales from the Hood (2 sequel: 2018, 2020)
- Top Dog
- The Tuskegee Airmen TV
- The Walking Dead
- White Man's Burden
1996
- The Chamber
- Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
- A Family Thing
- Get on the Bus
- Ghosts of Mississippi
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Mr. and Mrs. Loving TV
- Nightjohn TV
- Soul of the Game TV
- A Time To Kill
- The Watermelon Woman
1997
- 4 Little Girls*
- Amistad
- Buffalo Soldiers TV
- Hope TV
- Mandela and de Klerk TV
- Miss Evers' Boys TV
- The Postman
- Rosewood
1998
1999
- Crazy in Alabama
- A Day in Black and White
- The Green Mile
- Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years TV
- The Hurricane
- I'll Remember April
- Introducing Dorothy Dandridge TV
- A Lesson Before Dying TV
- Life
- Our Friend, Martin
- Passing Glory
- Selma, Lord, Selma TV
- Snow Falling On Cedars
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
- Summer's End (Canada/US)
Other Countries
[edit]1991
- The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife* TV (South Africa/UK) (1 sequel: UK, 2006* TV)
1992
- Minoru: Memory of Exile* (Canada)
- Once Upon a Time in China (China)
- Romper Stomper (Australia)
- Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia* (Canada)
1993
- For Angela (Canada)
- Moving the Mountain* (Canada)
- Schwarzfahrer (Germany)
- Speak Up! It's So Dark (Sweden)
1995
- 30:e november (Sweden)
- Hearts of Hate* TV (Canada)
1996
- Blue Eyed* (Germany)
- The Road Taken* (Canada)
- Taxi (Spain)
1997
- La vita è bella (Italy)
- Nattbuss 807 (Sweden)
1998
- Head On (Australia)
1999
- East Is East (UK)
- Flores de otro mundo (Spain)
- Ichigensan (Japan)
- Unwanted Soldiers* TV (Canada)
2000s
[edit]United States
[edit]2000
- Bamboozled
- The Color of Friendship TV (US/Canada)
- Finding Forrester
- Freedom Song TV
- From Swastika to Jim Crow*
- Men of Honor
- Remember the Titans
- Roads and Bridges
- A Storm in Summer TV
- Two Family House
2001
- The Believer
- Bojangles TV
- Boycott TV
- The Feast of All Saints TV
- Focus
- Monster's Ball
- Niggas' Revenge
- Scottsboro: An American Tragedy*
2002
- 10,000 Black Men Named George TV
- The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in Hollywood*
- Far from Heaven (US/France)
- Hart's War
- The Rosa Parks Story TV
- Sins of the Father TV
2003
- Bringing Down the House
- Deacons For Defence TV
- Jasper, Texas TV
- Mendez vs. Westminster: For All the Children*
- The Murder of Emmett Till* TV
2004
- Crash (US/Germany)
- A Day Without a Mexican (US/Mexico/Spain)
- Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (franchise)
- Hiding and Seeking* TV
- Hotel Rwanda (US/UK/South Africa/Italy)
- The N-Word*
- Ray
- Something The Lord Made TV
2005
- 500 Years Later*
- Animal
- Man-Thing (US/Australia)
- Neo Ned
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson* TV
- The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till*
2006
- Amazing Grace (UK/US)
- Americanese
- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (US/UK)
- Flags of Our Fathers
- Glory Road
- Heavens Fall
- Reel Bad Arabs*[note 2]
- The Slanted Screen*
- Something New
2007
- Banished*
- Below the Fold*
- Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story* TV
- Descent
- Freedom Writers
- The Great Debaters
- Hairspray (US/UK)
- Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (Namibia/US)
- Pride
- Steel Toes (Canada/US)
- Talk to Me
2008
- 4Chosen: The Documentary*
- The Bank Job (US/UK/Australia)
- Beautiful Me(s): Finding Our Revolutionary Selves*
- The Express: The Ernie Davis Story
- Gospel Hill
- Lakeview Terrace
- Neshoba*
- The Order of Myths*
- The Secret Life of Bees
2009
- The Blind Side
- Christmas in Canaan (US/Canada)
- Gran Torino
- Inglorious Bastards (US/Germany)
- Invictus (South Africa/US)
- Maafa 21*
- Prom Night in Mississippi*
- Soundtrack for a Revolution* (US/FR/UK)
- Vincent Who?*
Other Countries
[edit]2000
- Give Us Our Skeletons* (Norway)
- Lumumba (France/Belgium/Germany/Haiti)
- Saroja (Sri Lanka)
2001
- Khaled (Canada)
- Too Colourful for the League* TV (Canada)
2002
- Je me souviens* (Canada)
- The Pianist (France/Germany/Poland/UK)
- Little Angel (Sri Lanka)
- Rabbit-Proof Fence (Australia)
2003
- Décryptage* (France)
- Le silence de la forêt (Central African Republic/Cameroon/Gabon/France)
- Louis and the Nazis* TV (UK)
- The Zone* (Sweden)
2004
- Being Osama* (Canada)
- Continuous Journey* (Canada)
- The Football Factory (UK)
- I – Proud to Be an Indian (India)
- Red Dust (UK/South Africa)
2005
- Gypo (UK)
- Man to Man (UK/South Africa/France)
- Manderlay (Various Countries)
2006
- Africa Paradis (France/Benin)
- Brocket 99: Rockin' the Country* (Canada)
- Days of Glory (France/Morocco/Belgium/Algeria)
- This Is England (UK)
- United Gates of America* TV (UK)
2007
- Goal (India)
- Mississippi Cold Case* TV (Canada)
- Nazi Pop Twins* TV (UK)
2008
- Skin (UK/South Africa)
2009
- Cedar Boys (Australia)
- The Combination (Australia)
- Endgame (UK)
- London River (UK/France)
- Mighty Jerome* (Canada)
- Mugabe and the White African* (UK)
- Reel Injun* (Canada)
2010s
[edit]United States
[edit]2010
- Blood Done Sign My Name
- For Colored Girls
- My Name Is Khan (India/US/Hong Kong)
- Night Catches Us
- No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson*
- Yellow Face*
2011
- Dark Girls* TV
- The Double Conscious: Race & Rhetoric*
- The Help (US/India/United Arab Emirates)
- Hidden Colors* (4 sequels: 2012*, 2014*, 2016*, 2019*)
- The Loving Story*
2012
- Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story*
- Cloud Atlas (Germany/US)
- Deepsouth*
- Django Unchained
- Lincoln
- The Paperboy
2013
- 12 Years a Slave (US/UK/Canada)
- 42
- Betty and Coretta TV
- The Butler
- Fruitvale Station
- Hate Crime
- Inappropriate Comedy
- Latinos Beyond Reel*
- The Retrieval
- Savannah
- Tula: The Revolt
2014
- 9-Man*
- Black Sea (UK/US)
- Cesar Chavez (Mexico/US)
- Dear White People
- Diamond in the Dunes* TV
- Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football* TV
- Freedom
- The Gabby Douglas Story TV
- Get On Up
- Hate Crimes in the Heartland* TV
- Planes: Fire and Rescue
- Selma (UK/US)
- Supremacy
- Take Me to the River*
- White Chicks
- You Belong to Me: Sex, Race and Murder in the South*
2015
- Bars4Justice*
- Bessie TV
- Chi-Raq
- Driving While Black
- Get Hard
- Hogtown
- Last Day of Freedom* TV
- Rosenwald*
- Straight Outta Compton
- Welcome to Leith*
- What Happened, Miss Simone?* TV
- White People* TV
- Woodlawn
2016
- 13th*
- All The Way TV
- An American Girl Story – Melody 1963: Love Has to Win
- American Pastoral
- Barry TV
- The Birth of a Nation
- Fences
- Free State of Jones
- Hidden Figures
- Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party*
- I Am Not Your Negro* (Germany/US)
- In the Hour of Chaos*
- LBJ
- Loving (UK/US)
- Moonlight
- The North Star
- Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement* TV
- A United Kingdom (Czech Republic/France/UK/US)
- Zootopia
2017
- Birth of a Movement*
- Bright TV
- A Change of Heart
- The Chinese Exclusion Act* TV
- Detroit
- Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?*
- Get Out
- Hidden Figures
- The King*
- Kings (France/Belgium/US)
- LA 92* TV
- Marshall
- Mudbound
- My Nephew Emmett
- Rodney King
- The Shape of Water
- Suburbicon
2018
- Black, White & Blue*
- BLACKkKLANSMAN
- Burden
- Death of a Nation*
- Fahrenheit 11/9*
- Green Book
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening*
- The Hate U Give
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- King in the Wilderness*
- Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.* (UK/US)
- Skin[2]
- Skin
2019
- American Son TV
- The Best of Enemies
- Canal Street
- Cuck
- Harriet
- Hello, Privilege. It's Me, Chelsea* TV
- Jojo Rabbit (US/New Zealand/Czech Republic)
- Just Mercy
- A Love Song for Latasha* TV
- Luce
- Ma
- Miss Virginia
- The Obituary of Tunde Johnson
- Queen & Slim
- See You Yesterday TV
- Traveling While Black* (Canada/US)
Other Countries
[edit]2010
- Crook (India)
- Frankie and Alice (Canada)
- He's on Duty (South Korea)
- Skinning (Serbia)
2011
- The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975* (Sweden)
- From C to C: Chinese Canadian Stories of Migration* TV (Canada)
- Winnie Mandela (South Africa/Canada)
2012
- Hold Back (France)
- The Sapphires (Australia)
- Toussaint Louverture (France)
2013
- Belle (UK)
- Heart of a Lion (Finland)
- ID–WithoutColors* (Germany)
- Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (UK/South Africa)
- The Marchers (France/Belgium)
- Utopia* TV (Australia)
2014
- Serial (Bad) Weddings (France) (1 sequel: /Belgium, 2019)
- We Are Young. We Are Strong (Germany)
2015
- French Blood (France)
- The Hard Stop* (UK)
- The Man Who Knew Infinity (UK)
- Ninth Floor* (Canada)
- The Pass System* (Canada)
2016
- Amerika Square (Greece)
- Chocolat (France)
- Kalushi (South Africa)
- Race (Canada/France/Germany)
2017
- An Act of Defiance (Netherlands/South Africa)
- Black Cop (Canada)
- The Forgiven (UK)
- Jasper Jones (Australia)
- Silent Nights (Denmark)
- Sweet Country (Australia)
- White Right: Meeting the Enemy* TV (UK)
2018
- Black Is Beltza (Spain)
- Black Sheep* (UK)
- Farming (UK)
- The Nightingale (Australia)
- Pariyerum Perumal (India)
- Slam (Australia/France)
2019
- Asuran (India) (1 remake: India, 2021)
- Axone (India)
- Blinded by the Light (UK)
- Ip Man 4: The Finale (Hong Kong/China)
- The Last Victims (South Africa)
- There's Something in the Water* (Canada)
- White Eye (Israel)
- Bala (2019 film)
2020s
[edit]United States
[edit]2020
- The 24th
- Aggie*
- The Banker
- Coded Bias*
- A Crime on the Bayou*
- Da 5 Bloods
- Son of the South
- Two Distant Strangers
2021
- Attica* TV
- Karen
- Summer of Soul*
2022
Other Countries
[edit]- Black Bodies (Canada, 2020)
- Colour Photo (India, 2020)
- Corona (Canada, 2020)
- Coronavirus (India, 2020)
- The Odd-Job Men (Spain/France, 2021)
- The Survival of Kindness (Australia, 2023)
See also
[edit]- Films about race
- Lists of films
- List of films about revolution
- List of films featuring colonialism
- List of films featuring slavery
- List of films that depict class struggle
- List of hood films
- List of skinhead films
- Political cinema
- Racism in horror films
- Whitewashing in film
- Propaganda film
- Racism in early American film
- Race movie
- Blaxploitation
- L.A. Rebellion
- Antisemitism
- White supremacy
- Genocide
- Hate crime
- Civil rights
- Inequality in Hollywood
- Magical Negro
- White savior narrative in film
- Tom Rice (film historian)
References
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ One of the first films to show protagonists overcome racial divisions to achieve success.
- ^ A documentary film based on the book of the same name by Jack Shaheen.
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