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When They See Us (2019)
by Ava DuVernay
on Netflix
Just Mercy (2019)
by Destin Daniel Cretton
on Hoopla
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
by Barry Jenkins
on Hulu
Crime + Punishment (2018)
by Stephen Maing
on Hulu
Monsters and Men (2018)
by Reinaldo Marcus Green
on Hulu and for free on YouTube
The Hate U Give (2018)
by George Tillman Jr.
on HBO
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
by RaMell Ross
on Amazon Prime
Amazing Grace (2018)
by Sydney Pollack and Alan Elliott
on Hulu
Get Out (2017)
by Jordan Peele
LA 92 (2017)
by T. J. Martin and Daniel Lindsay
on Netflix, Hulu, and for free on YouTube
Whose Streets? (2017)
by Sabaah Folayan
on Hulu, Kanopy, and Hoopla
13th (2016)
by Ava DuVernay
on Netflix and for free on YouTube
Hidden Figures (2016)
by Theodore Melfi
I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
by Raoul Peck
on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime
Moonlight (2016)
by Barry Jenkins
on Netflix and Kanopy
Tangerine (2015)
by Sean Baker
on Hulu
Selma (2014)
by Ava DuVernay
on FX Now
12 Years A Slave (2013)
by Steve McQueen
for rental
Fruitvale Station (2013)
by Ryan Coogler
The House I Live In (2012)
by Eugene Jarecki
on tubi
Pariah (2011)
by Dee Rees
When The Levees Broke (2006)
by Spike Lee
on HBO
Bamboozled (2000)
by Spike Lee
for rental
George Washington (2000)
by David Gordon Green
on Criterion and Kanopy
Malcolm X (1992)
by Spike Lee
Boyz N The Hood (1991)
by John Singleton
on Showtime
Daughers of the Dust (1991)
by Julie Dash
on Criterion and Kanopy
Paris Is Burning (1990)
by Jennie Livingston
for rental
Asian Americans
on PBS
Do The Right Thing (1989)
by Spike Lee
Eyes on the Prize (1987)
on Kanopy