List of racism-related films

This is a list of films that deal with the topic of race or racism. The film title is followed by country and year of release:

List

• 10,000 Black Men Named George (US, 2002)
• 12 Years a Slave (US/UK, 2013)
• 30:e november (Sweden, 1995)
• 42 (US, 2013)
• 500 Years Later (US, 2005)
• A Dry White Season (US, 1989)
• A Family Thing (US, 1996)
• A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion (US, 1982)
• A Lesson Before Dying (US, 1999)
• A Patch of Blue (US, 1965)
• A Soldier's Story (US, 1984)
• A Storm in Summer (US, 2000)
• A United Kingdom (UK, 2016)
• All The Way (US, 2016)
• Amazing Grace (UK, 2006)
• American History X (US, 1998)
• American Son (US, 2019)
• Americanese (US, 2006)
• Amistad (US, 1997)
• An American Girl Story – Melody 1963: Love Has to Win (US, 2016)
• And The Children Shall Lead (US 1985)
• Animal (US, 2005)
• Apt Pupil (film) (US, 1998)
• Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker (US, 1994)
• Bamboozled (US, 2000)
• The Bank Job (US, 2008)
• Beautiful Me(s): Finding Our Revolutionary Selves (US, 2008)
• The Believer (US, 2001)
• Belle (UK, 2013)
• Beloved (US, 1998)
• Bessie (US, 2015)
• The Best of Enemies (US, 2019)
• Betrayed (US, 1988)
• Betty and Coretta (US, 2013)
• Bird (US, 1988)
• The Birth of a Nation (US, 1915)
• The Birth of a Nation (US, 2016)
• Black Like Me (film) (US, 1964)
• Black Orpheus (Brazil, 1959)
• BLACKkKLANSMAN (US, 2018)
• Blazing Saddles (US, 1974)
• The Blind Side (US, 2009)
• Blood Done Sign My Name (US, 2010)
• Bojangles (US, 2001)
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (US, 2006)
• Boycott (US, 2001)
• The Boys from Brazil (US, 1978)
• Brian's Song (US, 1971)
• Bridge to the Sun (US, 1961)
• Brocket 99 - Rockin' the Country (Canada, 2006)
• Broken Blossoms (US, 1919)
• A Bronx Tale (US, 1993)
• The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema (US, 2002)
• Brother Future (US, 1991)
• Buck and the Preacher (US, 1972)
• Brother John (US, 1971)
• Buffalo Soldiers (TV) (US, 1997)
• Burden (US, 2018)
• The Butler (US, 2013)
• Canal Street (US, 2019)
• Cedar Boys (Australia, 2009)
• The Chamber (US, 1996)
• Circus (USSR, 1936)
• Class of '61 (US, 1993)
• Cloud Atlas (US, 2012)
• The Color of Friendship(US, 2000)
• The Color Purple (US, 1985)
• The Combination (Australia, 2009)
• Come See the Paradise (US, 1990)
• Conrack (US, 1974)
• Continuous Journey (Canada, 2004)
• Corrina, Corrina (US, 1994)
• The Cotton Club (US, 1984)
• Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity (US, 2012)
• Crash (US, 2004)
• Crazy in Alabama (US, 1999)
• The Crimson Kimono (US 1959)
• Crisis At Central High (US, 1981)
• Crossfire (US, 1947)
• Cry, the Beloved Country (UK, 1951)
• Cry, the Beloved Country (South Africa/US, 1995)
• Cry Freedom (UK, 1987)
• A Day Without a Mexican (US, 2004)
• Deacons For Defence (US, 2003)
• Deadly Hero (US, 1976)
• Death By Hanging (Japan, 1968)
• The Defiant Ones (US, 1958)
• Django Unchained (US, 2012)
• Do the Right Thing (US, 1989)
• Driving Miss Daisy (US, 1989)
• Elysium (US, 2013)
• East Is East (UK, 1999)
• The Ernest Green Story (US, 1993)
• The Eternal Jew (UK, 1934)
• The Eternal Jew (Germany, 1940)
• The Express: The Ernie Davis Story (US, 2008)
• Far from Heaven (US, 2002)
• Feast Of All Saints (US, 2001)
• Finding Forrester (US, 2000)
• Flags of Our Fathers (US, 2006)
• Flame in the Streets (UK, 1961)
• Focus (US, 2001)
• For Colored Girls (US, 2010)
• For Queen and Country (UK, 1988)
• Frankie and Alice (US, 2010)
• Free State of Jones (US, 2016)
• Freedom (US, 2014)
• Freedom Song (US, 2000)
• Freedom Writers (US, 2007)
• Fried Green Tomatoes (US, 1991)
• Fruitvale Station (US, 2013)
• The Gabby Douglas Story (US, 2014)
• Gangsta's Paradise (US, 1995)
• Gentleman's Agreement (US, 1947)
• Get On The Bus (US, 1996)
• Get On Up (US, 2014)
• Get Out (US, 2017)
• Ghosts of Mississippi (US, 1996)
• Giant (US, 1956)
• Glory (US,1989)
• Glory Road (US, 2006)
• Gone With the Wind (US, 1939)
• Gospel Hill (US, 2008)
• Gran Torino (US, 2009)
• Greased Lightning (US, 1977)
• The Great Debaters (US, 2007)
• The Great White Hope (US, 1970)
• Green Book (US, 2018)
• The Green Mile (US, 1999)
• Guess Who (US, 2005)
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (US, 1967)
• Hairspray (US, 1988)
• Hairspray (US, 2007)
• Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (US, 2004)
• Harriet (US, 2019)
• Hart's War (US, 2002)
• Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (US, 1999)
• The Help (US, 2011)
• Hidden Figures (US, 2017)
• Hidden Colors (US, 2011)
• High Lonesome (US, 1995)
• Higher Learning (US, 1995)
• Hitler's Children (US, 1943)
• Home of the Brave (US, 1949)
• Hotel Rwanda (US, 2004)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (US, 1996)
• The Hurricane (US, 1999)
• I Am Not Your Negro (US, 2016)
• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (US, 1979)
• If Beale Street Could Talk (US, 2018)
• Imitation of Life (US, 1959 film)
• In the Heat of the Night (US, 1967)
• Inappropriate Comedy (US, 2013)
• Inglorious Bastards (US, 2009)
• Intolerance (US, 1916)
• Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (US, 1999)
• Invictus (2009)
• The Intruder (US, 1962)
• The Jackie Robinson Story (US, 1950)
• Jefferson In Paris (US, 1995)
• The Journey of August King (US, 1995)
• Jud Süß (Germany, 1940)
• Jungle Fever (US, 1991)
• Just Mercy (US, 2019)
• Keep The Faith Baby - Adam Clayton Powell (US, 2002)
• Khaled (Canada, 2001)
• Kiku to Isamu (Japan, 1959)
• King In The Wilderness (US, 2018)
• Kings (US, 2017)
• Little Angel (Sri Lanka, 2002)
• La vita è bella (Italy, 1997)
• Lady Sings the Blues (US, 1972)
• Lakeview Terrace (US, 2008)
• LBJ (US, 2016)
• The Landlord (US, 1970)
• The Last Victims (South Africa, 2019)
• Lean on Me (US, 1989)
• Light in the Shadows (US, 2003)
• Lincoln (US, 2012)
• The Long Walk Home (US, 1990)
• Long Walk to Freedom (US, 2013)
• Losing Isaiah (US, 1995)
• Lost Boundaries (US, 1949)
• Love Field (US, 1992)
• Loving (US, 2016)
• Malcolm X (US,1992)
• The Man Who Knew Infinity (US, 2015)
• Manderlay (US, 2005)
• Marshall (US, 2017)
• Men of Honor (US, 2000)
• Menace !! Society (US, 1993)
• Milk (US, 2006)
• Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible (US, 2006)
• Miss Evers' Boys (US, 1997)
• Mississippi Burning (US, 1988)
• Mississippi Masala (US, 1991)
• Murder In Mississippi (US, 1990)
• Monster's Ball (US, 2001)
• Mr. and Mrs. Loving (US, 1996)
• Mudbound (US, 2017)
• My Past Is My Own (US, 1989)
• Native Son (US, 1986)
• Nattbuss 807 (Sweden, 1997)
• Night Catches Us (US, 2010)
• Nightjohn (US, 1996)
• No Way Out (US, 1950)
• The North Star (US, 2016)
• Nothing But a Man (US, 1964)
• Once Upon a Time in China (HK, 1992)
• One Potato, Two Potato (US, 1964)
• The Paperboy (US, 2012)
• Paris Blues (US, 1961)
• A Patch of Blue (US, 1965)
• The Pianist (US, 2002)
• Pink Floyd – The Wall (US, 1982)
• Pinky (US, 1949)
• Places in the Heart (US, 1984)
• Planes: Fire and Rescue (US, 2014)
• Planet of the Apes (US, 1968)
• Pocahontas (US, 1995)
• The Power of One (US 1992)
• Pressure Point (US, 1962)
• Pride (US, 2007)
• Q & A (US, 1990)
• Rabbit-Proof Fence (Australia, 2002)
• Race (US, 2016)
• Ragtime (US, 1981)
• A Raisin in the Sun (US, 1961)
• A Raisin in the Sun (US, 2008)
• Ray (US, 2004)
• Remember the Titans (US, 2000)
• Reel Injun (US, 2009)
• Romper Stomper (Australia, 1992)
• Rosewood (US, 1997)
• Ruby Bridges (TV) (US, 1998)
• Ruby's Bucket of Blood (US, 2001)
• Salt of the Earth (US, 1954) one of the first films to show protagonists overcome racial divisions to achieve success.
• Sankofa (US, 1993)
• Sarafina (US, 1992)
• Saroja (Sri Lanka, 2000)
• Savannah (US, 2013)
• Schindler's List (US, 1993)
• School Daze (US, 1988)
• School Ties (US, 1992)
• The Great Debaters (US, 2007)
• The Secret Life of Bees (US, 2008)
• The Secret Path (US, 1999)
• Selma (US, 2014)
• Selma, Lord, Selma (US, 1999)
• Sergeant Rutledge (US, 1960)
• Shadows (US, 1959)
• Shaft (US, 1971, with sequels in 1972 and 1973)
• The Shawshank Redemption (US, 1994)
• Shock Corridor (US, 1959)
• Show Boat
• Sins of the Father (US, 2002)
• Skin (Africa, 2008)
• Snow Falling On Cedars (US, 1999)
• A Soldier's Story (US, 1984)
• Something New (US, 2006)
• Something The Lord Made (US, 2004)
• Soul Man (US, 1986)
• Soul Of The Game (Us, 1996)
• Sounder (US, 1972)
• Speak Up! It's So Dark (Sweden, 1993)
• The Spook Who Sat by the Door (US, 1973)
• Stand and Deliver (US, 1988)
• Steel Toes (Canada, 2006)
• Straight Outta Compton (US, 2015)
• Story of a Three Day Pass (US, 1968)
• Talk To Me (US, 2007)
• Taxi (Spain, 1996) (not to be confused with the French film of the same name)
• The Banker (US, 2020)
• The Forgiven (US, 2017)
• The Hate U Give (US, 2018)
• The Retrieval (US, 2013)
• The Rosa Parks Story (US, 2002)
• This Is England (UK, 2007)
• ...tick...tick...tick... (US, 1970)
• A Time To Kill (US, 1996)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (US, 1962)
• To Sir, with Love (US, 1967)
• Triumph of the Will (Germany, 1935)
• Tula: The Revolt (US, 2013)
• The Tuskegee Airmen (TV) (US, 1995)
• Two Family House (US, 2000)
• Watermelon Man (US, 1970)
• The Walking Dead (US, 1995)
• The Way Home: Women Talk about Race in America (US, 1998)
• West Side Story (US, 1961)
• What Happened Miss Simone (US, 2015)
• White Dog (US, 1982)
• White Man's Burden (US, 1995)
• Whitewash (TV) (US, 1994)
• Winnie Mandela (US, 2011)
• Zebrahead (US, 1992)
• Zootopia (US, 2016)

See also

• Blaxploitation
• Films about race
• List of skinhead films
• Lists of films
• Political cinema
• Race movie

External links

• Teachers Against Prejudice recommended films