# List of racism-related films

This is a list of films that deal with the topic of race or racism. (*) mark are documentary films.

## 1910s
### United States

1915
* The Birth of a Nation
1916
* Intolerance
1919
* Broken Blossoms (1 remake: UK, 1936)
* Within Our Gates
Oscar Micheaux 1920

## 1920s
### United States

1920
* In the Depths of Our Hearts

## 1930s
### United States

1930
* Son of the Gods
1936
* Show Boat
1939
* Gone With the Wind
* Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert*

### Other Countries

* Triumph of the Will (Germany, 1935)
* Circus (USSR, 1936)

## 1940s
### United States

1942
* In This Our Life
1943
* Hitler's Children
1947
* Crossfire
* Gentleman's Agreement
1949
* Home of the Brave
* Lost Boundaries
* Pinky

### Other Countries

* The Eternal Jew (Germany, 1940)
* Jud Süß (Germany, 1940)
* Angelitos negros (Mexico, 1948) (1 remake: Mexico, 1970)

## 1950s
### United States

1950
* The Jackie Robinson Story
* No Way Out
1951
* Go for Broke!
* The Well
1952
* Japanese War Bride
* Toxi
1954
* Salt of the Earth
1955
* Bad Day at Black Rock
1956
* Giant
1957
* 12 Angry Men
* Edge of the City
* Island in the Sun
* Sayonara
1958
* The Defiant Ones
* The Mark of the Hawk (US/UK)
* South Pacific
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

* 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
### United States

1960
* All the Young Men
* Sergeant Rutledge
* The Unforgiven
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
* The Intruder
* Pressure Point
* To Kill a Mockingbird
1963
* Free, White and 21
* Gone Are the Days!
* Shock Corridor
1964
* Black Like Me
* Nothing But a Man
* One Potato, Two Potato
1965
* A Patch of Blue
1966
* Lost Command
* A Man Called Adam
* A Time for Burning*
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
* Change of Mind
* The Learning Tree

### Other Countries

* 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
### United States

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
* Coffy
* The Spook Who Sat by the Door
1974
* The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman TV
* Blazing Saddles
* Conrack
1975
* The California Reich*
* Coonskin
* Mandingo (1 sequel: 1976)
1976
* Deadly Hero
* Nightmare in Badham County TV
1977
* Greased Lightning
1978
* The Boys from Brazil (UK/US)
* Lawman Without a Gun TV
1979
* I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings TV
* Undercover with the KKK
* Wilmington 10 -- U.S.A. 10,000*

### Other Countries

* 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
### United States

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
* Twilight Zone: The Movie
1984
* The Cotton Club
* The Killing Floor TV
* Places in the Heart
* A Soldier's Story
* The Times of Harvey Milk*
1985
* The Color Purple
1986
* Native Son
* Resting Place TV
* Soul Man
* Wildcats
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

* 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
### United States

1990
* Come See the Paradise
* The Long Walk Home
* Murder in Mississippi TV
* Q & A
* Sudie and Simpson TV
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
* Ambushed TV
* American History X
* Apt Pupil
* Beloved
* The Farm: Angola, USA*
* Pariah
* Pleasantville
* Ruby Bridges TV
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

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
### United States

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*
* 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

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
### United States

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
* 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

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
### United States

2020
* The 24th
* Aggie*
* The Banker
* Coded Bias*
* A Crime on the Bayou*
* Da 5 Bloods
* Son of the South
* Two Distant Strangers
* We Bare Bears: The Movie* TV
2021
* Attica* TV
* Karen
* Summer of Soul*
2022
* Master
* Emergency
* Till
* The Walk
* Bowl Game Armageddon (2023 film)
2023
* Wonka
2024
* Wicked

### Other Countries

* 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)