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1. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Approved | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton
Votes: 48,889 | Gross: $56.70M
2. Guess Who (2005)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
A young woman, Theresa, brings her boyfriend, Simon, home to meet her parents and surprise them with the news of their engagement. Another surprise: Simon is white.
Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan | Stars: Ashton Kutcher, Bernie Mac, Zoe Saldana, Judith Scott
Votes: 45,743 | Gross: $68.92M
3. Mississippi Masala (1991)
R | 118 min | Drama, Romance
An ethnic Indian family is expelled from Idi Amin's Uganda in 1972 and lives in Mississippi 17 years later. The dad sues Uganda to get his property back. The grown daughter falls in love with a Black man.
Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth, Sharmila Tagore
Votes: 6,195 | Gross: $7.31M
4. Gone with the Wind (1939)
Passed | 238 min | Drama, Romance, War
A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil
Votes: 334,106 | Gross: $198.68M
5. The Cheat (1915)
Not Rated | 59 min | Drama, Romance
A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Dean, James Neill
Votes: 2,762 | Gross: $0.21M
6. Do the Right Thing (1989)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson
Votes: 112,338 | Gross: $27.55M
7. Jungle Fever (1991)
R | 132 min | Drama, Romance
Friends and family of a married Black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee, Ossie Davis
Votes: 19,649 | Gross: $32.48M
8. Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
An affluent New York City couple finds their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Will Smith, Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland, Ian McKellen
Votes: 22,547 | Gross: $6.41M
9. Imitation of Life (1934)
Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a Black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson, Ned Sparks
Votes: 5,642
10. Japanese War Bride (1952)
Approved | 91 min | Drama
Korean War veteran returns home to rural Salinas, California with his new Japanese wife, whom he met at a war hospital. The couple are forced to deal with the sometimes subtle, sometimes ... See full summary »
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Shirley Yamaguchi, Don Taylor, Cameron Mitchell, Marie Windsor
Votes: 166
11. The Help (2011)
PG-13 | 146 min | Drama
An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.
Director: Tate Taylor | Stars: Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard
Votes: 492,542 | Gross: $169.71M
12. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
TV-PG | 195 min | Drama, History, War
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper
Votes: 26,329 | Gross: $10.00M
13. Sixteen Candles (1984)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
A girl's "sweet" sixteenth birthday is anything but special: her family forgets about it, and she suffers from every embarrassment possible.
Director: John Hughes | Stars: Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Justin Henry, Michael Schoeffling
Votes: 126,224 | Gross: $23.69M
14. Sayonara (1957)
Not Rated | 147 min | Drama, Romance
A US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer.
Director: Joshua Logan | Stars: Marlon Brando, Ricardo Montalban, Patricia Owens, James Garner
Votes: 7,687 | Gross: $26.30M
15. Touch of Evil (1958)
PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 109,755 | Gross: $2.24M
16. Zoot Suit (1981)
R | 103 min | Drama, Musical
When barrio leader Henry Reyna and his friends are unjustly convicted on circumstantial evidence, activist lawyers Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant racially motivated miscarriage of justice to win them their freedom.
Director: Luis Valdez | Stars: Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, Charles Aidman, Tyne Daly
Votes: 1,343 | Gross: $3.26M
17. Trading Places (1983)
R | 116 min | Comedy
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche
Votes: 165,693 | Gross: $90.40M
18. Malcolm X (1992)
PG-13 | 202 min | Biography, Drama, History
Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee
Votes: 101,983 | Gross: $48.17M
19. Bamboozled (2000)
R | 135 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Michael Rapaport
Votes: 12,344 | Gross: $2.27M
20. Lone Star (1996)
R | 135 min | Drama, Mystery, Western
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
Director: John Sayles | Stars: Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Stephen Mendillo, Stephen J. Lang
Votes: 32,310 | Gross: $13.27M
21. Amreeka (2009)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama
A drama centered on the trials and tribulations of a proud Palestinian Christian immigrant single mother and her teenage son in small town Indiana.
Director: Cherien Dabis | Stars: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat
Votes: 3,684 | Gross: $0.62M
22. Inside Man (2006)
R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 397,627 | Gross: $88.51M
23. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
R | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy
After being mistaken for terrorists and thrown into Guantánamo Bay, stoners Harold and Kumar escape and return to the U.S., where they proceed to flee across the country with federal agents in hot pursuit.
Directors: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg | Stars: John Cho, Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris, Rob Corddry
Votes: 141,981 | Gross: $38.09M
24. The Princess and the Frog (2009)
G | 97 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.
Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker | Stars: Anika Noni Rose, Keith David, Oprah Winfrey, Bruno Campos
Votes: 166,628 | Gross: $104.40M
25. Mulan (1998)
G | 87 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
Directors: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook | Stars: Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, BD Wong, Miguel Ferrer
Votes: 316,244 | Gross: $120.62M
26. Making Do the Right Thing (1989 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
Director: St. Clair Bourne | Stars: Danny Aiello, Jennie Bourne, Nandi Bowe, Ossie Davis
Votes: 216
27. We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama (2010)
68 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The Election of President Barack Obama began on March 5, 1770 at the Boston Massacre with the death of Crispus Attucks.
Director: Terrell Taylor | Stars: Erika Alexander, Marvin Arrington Jr., Angela Bassett, Danny Glover
28. Who Do You Think You Are? (2010– )
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Celebrities are given the opportunity to research their family trees with surprising and often unexpected results.
Stars: Mocean Melvin, Ken Rogers, Courteney Cox, Julie Bowen
Votes: 1,479
29. On the Shoulders of Giants: The Story of the Greatest Team You Never Heard Of (2010)
80 min | Documentary, History, Sport
The NBA's All-Time Leading Scorer and Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar presents On the Shoulders of Giants - the story of the greatest team you never heard of. The tale of the all-black ... See full summary »
Director: Deborah Morales | Stars: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Maya Angelou, Carmelo Anthony, Charles Barkley
Votes: 37
30. Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies (2008)
Documentary
Documentary portrays the saga of how Italian Americans went from being outsiders who were stereotyped as gangsters in American movies to insiders in Hollywood who took control of their own ... See full summary »
Director: Steven Fischler | Stars: Giorgio Bertellini, Paul Borghese, John Caglione Jr., Frank Capra Jr.
Votes: 98
31. AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition (2007 TV Movie)
130 min | Documentary
This special is a recounting of the top 100 movies of all time, updated from the list of 10 years ago aired in the first AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies.
Director: Gary Smith | Stars: Tim Allen, Halle Berry, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Bridges
Votes: 247
32. Building a Dream: The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy (2007 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Oprah Winfrey hosts a one-hour special chronicling her five-year effort in creating a leadership academy for disadvantaged girls in South Africa.
Stars: India Arie, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Quincy Jones
Votes: 81
33. The 100 Best Black Movies (Ever) (2007)
Documentary
Director: Matthew Hensley | Stars: Nick Cannon, Cedric The Entertainer, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jamie Foxx
Votes: 33
34. Inside Men: Denzel & Spike - Man to Man (2006 TV Short)
20 min | Short, Talk-Show
Director: Butch Robinson | Stars: Emiko Koizumi, Spike Lee, Denzel Washington
Votes: 68
35. The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame... (1999–2007)
Not Rated | 30 min | Sport
A show which takes sports most memorable blunders, bad calls, and questionable moments and sheds a new light on them to show why the party who made the mistake should be let off the hook.
Stars: Brian Kenny, Steve Hirdt, Bob Costas, Michael Wilbon
Votes: 78
36. Movies That Shook the World (2005)
22 min | Documentary
Stars: Jeff Goldblum, George Lucas, Roger Ebert, Graham Nash
Votes: 46
37. How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It) (2005)
Unrated | 85 min | Documentary
Feature-length documentary on renegade filmmaker, novelist, musician and theater impresario, Melvin Van Peebles.
Director: Joe Angio | Stars: Marva Allen, Emanuel Azenberg, Shelley R. Bonus, St. Clair Bourne
Votes: 320
38. Birth of a Nation: The Making of 'School Daze' (2005 Video)
24 min | Documentary, Short
Introduces behind-the-scenes of the movie, School Daze, along with interviews of the cast.
Director: Todd Williams | Stars: Darryl M. Bell, Barry Alexander Brown, Tisha Campbell, Ruth E. Carter
Votes: 57
39. By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X' (2005 Video)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Gary Leva | Stars: Terence Blanchard, Barry Alexander Brown, Ruth E. Carter, Ossie Davis
Votes: 83
40. The Difference (2004 Video)
Documentary, Short
Director: Kelly McPherson | Stars: Lance Acord, Bill Bennett, John Bowring, Skip Chaisson
41. Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and Dr. Strangelove (2004 Video)
18 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
A short biography on the life of British actor Peter Sellers, often hailed as the greatest comic actor of all time. Included are clips from his early days in British television and rare ... See full summary »
Director: John Scheinfeld | Stars: Michael Palin, Roger Ebert, Shirley MacLaine, Peter Sellers
Votes: 89
42. No Fighting in the War Room or Dr. Strangelove and the Nuclear Threat (2004 Video)
30 min | Short, Documentary
A documentary about the historical context of 'Dr. Strangelove'
Director: John Scheinfeld | Stars: James B. Harris, Robert McNamara, Bob Woodward, Spike Lee
Votes: 129
43. Five Directors on 'the Battle of Algiers' (2004 Video)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Five directors discuss the movie La battaglia di Algeri (1966) and the effect the movie has had on their career. Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Julian Schnabel, Steven Soderbergh and Oliver Stone ... See full summary »
Stars: Brahim Hadjadj, Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Julian Schnabel
Votes: 92
44. Spike Lee's '25th Hour': The Evolution of an American Filmmaker (2003 Video)
22 min | Documentary, Short
Spike Lee's filmmaking career is examined in this partial making-of for the film 25th Hour (2002). Interviews with cast members from this film and his past successes give us an idea what kind of dedicated person he truly is.
Director: Lorna Anozie | Stars: Spike Lee, Edward Norton, Martin Scorsese, Denzel Washington
Votes: 195
45. A Tribe Called Quest: The Video Anthology (2002 Video)
50 min | Music
Directors: Paul Hunter, Jim Swaffield, Josh Taft, Hype Williams | Stars: Todd 1, Charlie Brown, Dinco D., Phife Dawg
Votes: 64
46. New York at the Movies (2002 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Meryl Streep conducts us to a trip to New York City as presented in many films during the 20th Century, and how its cultural importance and impact are important to viewers. With a ... See full summary »
Director: Nick Davis | Stars: Meryl Streep, Lauren Bacall, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Brown
Votes: 216
47. It's Black Entertainment (2002 TV Special)
80 min | Documentary, Music
Survey of musical performers on film from the 20th century, organized into segments: Dancers, Divas, Rock and Soul, Jazz and Swing, Male Singers, and Hip Hop.
Director: Stan Lathan | Stars: Debbie Allen, Carl Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker
Votes: 122
48. The Making of 'Bamboozled' (2001 Video)
53 min | Documentary
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Spike Lee's satirical take on the American entertainment industry, in which a black writer for a TV network, frustrated at his failure to get his ... See full summary »
Directors: Spike Lee, Sam Pollard | Stars: Budd Schulberg, Clyde Taylor, Jack Newfield, Stanley Crouch
Votes: 158
49. The World's Best Sellers: The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money (1996 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 170 min | Documentary
In this unique film, Dennis Hopper sends Hermann Vaske on a mission around the world to find out about the crossover between creative disciplines, and how this is changing the creative and commercial arts.
Director: Hermann Vaske | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Jon Amiel, Rowan Atkinson, Sandra Bernhard
Votes: 125
50. American Cinema (1995–1996)
55 min | Documentary
The history of Hollywood and filmmaking comes alive in this spectacular nine hour celebration of movie magic.
Stars: John Lithgow, Matthew Modine, Kathleen Turner, Cliff Robertson
Votes: 274
51. A Century of Cinema (1994)
72 min | Documentary
The art of filmmaking, coinciding with cinema's 100th anniversary, containing numerous interviews with some of the most influential film personalities of the 20th century.
Director: Caroline Thomas | Stars: Don Ameche, Richard Attenborough, Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger
Votes: 341
52. Our Hollywood Education (1992)
85 min | Documentary
This unique and thought-provoking documentary delves into the conflict between the art and business of filmmaking as it is enacted on the "battlefield" of Hollywood. Through a series of ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Beltrami | Stars: Paul Bartel, James Blakeley, Tom Bliss, Rick 'Guido' Cadelly
Votes: 117
53. Lonely in America (1990)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
The dreams and aspirations about America and life of Arun, a young Indian in his 20s, change as he struggles to fit into a new and alien culture. His strained relationship with his rigidly ... See full summary »
Director: Barry Alexander Brown | Stars: Ranjit Chowdhry, Tirlok Malik, Adelaide Miller, Robert Kessler
Votes: 144
54. Story of a People: The Black Road to Hollywood (1990 TV Special)
Documentary
Stars: Debbie Allen, Charles Burnett, Al Chalk, Frank Dawson
Votes: 39
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