List of racism-related films explained

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

1910s

United States

See also: Racism in early American film and Race film. 1915

• The Birth of a Nation

1916

• Intolerance

1919

• Broken Blossoms (1 remake: UK, 1936)
• Within Our Gates

Oscar Micheaux 1920

1920s

United States

See also: Racism in early American film and Race film. 1920

• In the Depths of Our Hearts

1930s

United States

See also: Racism in early American film and Race film. 1930

• Son of the Gods

1936

• Show Boat

1939

• Gone With the Wind

Other Countries

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

1940s

United States

See also: Racism in early American film and Race film. 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

See also: Racism in early American film and Race film. 1950

• The Jackie Robinson Story
• No Way Out

1951

• Go for Broke!
• The Well

1952

• Japanese War Bride
• Toxi

1954

• Salt of the Earth^[1]

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)

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

See also: L.A. Rebellion and Racism in early American film. 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

See also: Blaxploitation and L.A. Rebellion. 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^[2]

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)
• (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

See also: L.A. Rebellion. 1981

• Crisis At Central High TV
• Lion of the Desert (Libya/US)
• Ragtime

1982

• TV
• 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

• 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

• 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
• Pariah
• 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
• 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

• (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

• (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

2002

• 10,000 Black Men Named George TV
• 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
• 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
• TV
• The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till

2006

• Amazing Grace (UK/US)
• Americanese
• (US/UK)
• Flags of Our Fathers
• Glory Road
• Heavens Fall
• Reel Bad Arabs
• ^[3]
• The Slanted Screen
• Something New

2007

• Banished
• Below the Fold
• TV
• Descent
• Freedom Writers
• The Great Debaters
• Hairspray (US/UK)
• (Namibia/US)
• Pride
• Steel Toes (Canada/US)
• Talk to Me

2008

• The Bank Job (US/UK/Australia)
• 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)
• (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
• Yellow Face

2011

• Dark Girls
• TV
• The Help (US/India/United Arab Emirates)
• Hidden Colors
• (4 sequels: 2012*, 2014*, 2016*, 2019*)
• The Loving Story

2012

• 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

2014

• 9-Man
• Black Sea (UK/US)
• Cesar Chavez (Mexico/US)
• Dear White People
• Diamond in the Dunes
• TV
• TV
• Freedom
• The Gabby Douglas Story TV
• Get On Up
• Hate Crimes in the Heartland
• TV
• Selma (UK/US)
• Supremacy
• Take Me to the River
• White Chicks

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
• American Pastoral
• Barry TV
• The Birth of a Nation
• Fences
• Free State of Jones
• Hidden Figures
• I Am Not Your Negro
• (Germany/US)
• In the Hour of Chaos
• LBJ
• Loving (UK/US)
• Moonlight
• The North Star
• 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^[4]
• 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)
• 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)
• (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)
• 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)
• (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

2021

• Attica
• TV
• Karen
• Summer of Soul

2022

• Master
• Emergency
• Till
• The Walk
• Bowl Game Armageddon (2023 film)

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)

See also

• 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)

Notes

1. One of the first films to show protagonists overcome racial divisions to achieve success.
2. Web site: Conrack. IMDb.
3. A documentary film based on the book of the same name by Jack Shaheen.
4. Nattiv's full-length feature Skin, also released in 2018, is not related to this film in terms of their narratives.

External links

• Teachers Against Prejudice recommended films