13. Hidden Figures

• • MPAA
  • PG

• Taraji P. Henson
• Octavia Spencer

The true story of three remarkable African-American mathematicians who took part in NASA's Space Race and played a pivotal role in sending astronaut John Glenn into space, all while battle race and...Read more gender discrimination within NASA's space program.

12. The Help

• Ahna O'Reilly
• Octavia Spencer

An aspiring writer's life turns upside down when she decides to interview some Mississippi black women who have spent their lives caring for white families.

11. Harriet

• Cynthia Erivo
• Joe Alwyn

The true story of the legendary abolitionist Harriet Tubman and the extraordinary feats she accomplished in her fight against slavery, from the time that she struck down her own slave shackles to how...Read more she helped liberate hundreds of slaves, setting the course for a historic change in the US.

10. Do the Right Thing

• • MPAA
  • R

• Danny Aiello
• Ossie Davis

In a predominantly black neighborhood, a disagreement between a customer and the owner of a pizzeria over the photos hung on the pizzeria's Wall of Fame devolves into violence as questions of racism...Read more raise the tension in the neighborhood.

9. Loving

• • MPAA
  • PG-13

• Joel Edgerton
• Ruth Negga

A true story that took place in the US during the racial segregation period ,when the couple Richard and Mildred Loving were sent to Virginia State Prison in 1958 for violating marriage laws that...Read more racially separate whites and blacks at the time.

8. Get Out

• • MPAA
  • R

• Daniel Kaluuya
• Allison Williams

A young African-American man visits his girlfriend's family, only to discover that they are cursed.

7. Django Unchained

• Leonardo DiCaprio
• Kerry Washington

With the help of a German bounty hunter, an ex-slave sets out to rescue his wife from an infamous and brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

6. Cry Freedom

• Kevin Kline
• Josette Simon

As friendship forms between the journalist Donald Woods and the activist Steve Biko, the turbulent atmosphere of the apartheid era in South Africa leads to a tragedy as Biko gets arrested and killed....Read more With Woods trying to shed light on the injustice that befell Biko, he and his family land in trouble.

5. The Best of Enemies

• • MPAA
  • PG-13

• Sam Rockwell
• Anne Heche

The story of how an unlikely friendship formed between black activist Ann Atwater and local Ku Klux Klan leader CP Ellis, after they are forced to co-chair a meeting to discuss desegregation of...Read more schools after a black school burns down.

3. BlacKkKlansman

• • MPAA
  • R

• John David Washington
• Adam Driver

A Colorado African-American police officer, Ron Stallworth, manages to join one of the KKK’s groups, and works his way up to leading it, in his attempt to arrest its members.