Compiled is a list of more than 50 GREAT movies about black excellence, social injustice, black struggle and systemic racism.

Most movies on this list are based on real events, some are fictional.

• Marshall – Chadwick Boseman, 2017 (based on a true story)

• Green book – Mahershala Ali, 2018 (based on a true story)

• Just mercy – Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, 2019 (based on a true story)

• Race (Jesse Owens) – Stephan James, 2015 (based on a true story)

• BlacKkKlansman – John David Washington, 2018 (based on a true story)

• Selma – David Oyelowo, 2014 (based on a true story)

• One night in Miami – Leslie Odom Jr., 2020

• Fresh – Sean Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, 1994

• Get on up – Chadwick Boseman, 2014 (based on a true story)

• Ray – Jamie Foxx, 2004 (based on a true story)

• The banker – Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson, 2019 (based on a true story)

• American gangster – Denzel Washington, 2007

• 42 (Jackie Robinson) – Chadwich Boseman, 2013 (based on a true story)

• Malcolm X – Denzel Washington, 1992 (based on a true story)

• Ali – Will Smith, 2001 (based on a true story)

• From the rough – Taraji P. Henson, 2013 (based on a true story)

• Harriet – Cynthia Erivo, 2019 (based on a true story)

• Coach carter – Samuel L. Jackson, 2005 (based on a true story)

• Juice – Tupac, 1992 (based on a true story)

• Menace II Society – Tyrin Turner, 1993 (a true-to-life portrayal of the streets in South Central Los Angeles)

• Mudbound – Jason Mitchell, 2017 (Inspired from real-life experiences)

• Remember the Titans – Denzel Washington, 2000 (based on a true story)

• The express (Ernie Davis) – Rob Brown, 2008 (based on a true story)

• Freedom writers – Hilary Swank, April Lee Hernández (based on a true story)

• The great debaters – Denzel Washington, 2007 (based on a true story)

• The butler – Oprah Winfrey, Forest Whitaker, 2013 (based on a true story)

• McFarland, USA – Kevin Costner, 2015 (based on a true story)

• Boyz N’ the hood – Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, 1991 (Inspired from real-life experiences of the director, John Singleton)

• Mississippi burning – Willem Dafoe, 1988 (based on a true story)

• Concussion – Will Smith, 2015 (based on a true story)

• Fruitvale station – Michael B. Jordan, 2013 (based on a true story)

• Hidden Figures – Taraji P. Henson, 2016 (inspired by a real-life incident)

• Do the right thing – Spike Lee, 1989 (inspired by a real-life incident)

• The blind side – Sandra Bullock, 2009 (inspired by a real-life incident)

• Poetic justice – Tupac, Janet Jackson, 1993

• Dope – Shameik Moore, Zoë Kravitz, 2015

• Sorry to bother you – Lakeith Stanfield, 2018

• Driving Miss Daisy – Morgan Freeman, 1989
• Lean on me – Morgan Freeman, 1989
• Loving – Joel Edgerton, 2016
• Fences – Viola Davis, Denzel Washington, 2016
• Roman J israel Esq. – Denzel Washington, 2017
• The harder they fall – Zazie Beetz, Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors, Regina King, 2021
• 12 years a slave
• Dear white people
• The help
• American history X
• Get out
• Black panther
• Django
• Queen and Slim
• Barbershop
• Friday
• If Beale street could talk
• The hate you give