I am reviewing (see my Letterboxd) or considering any film with a Black director, purposefully with a Black narrative of joy, oppression, liberation, or some of all the above, and can wisen white people to the history, contributions, and culture of Black people in the world and more specifically in the United States. Here in no particular ranking order is Greg Ross Taylor’s 33 Black Films That Woke a White Man for 2025.
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No particular order or genres, these are simply dramas, comedies, documentaries by, for, or how Black lives matter that changed my life: 33 films that woke a white man. I reserve the right to edit/add/subtract from the list and add comments, and I am requesting that you add to the comments and movies that did something like this for you here at gregtaylor.org blog or https://letterboxd.com/GMBC1994/ or facebook.com/gregrtaylor, or 1256movement.org. I added a brief explanation of a few but not all.
- If Beale Street Could Talk, based on a book by James Baldwin
- Love and Basketball
- The Help
- A Time for Burning
- 13th, Ava DuVernay
- Just Mercy, based on the life of Bryan Stevenson
- When We Were Kings, a documentary about the life of Muhammad Ali
- Straight Outta Compton
- The Hate You Give, based on a novel by Angie Thomas
- Spike Lee’s Malcolm X
- Till
- Black Panther
- Selma
- Nationtime
- Coach Carter
- I Am Not Your Negro, based on a book by James Baldwin
- Hidden Figures
- Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco
- Do the Right Thing
- Moonlight
- Get Out
- Boys n the Hood
- Judas and the Black Messiah
- Skin: 2018 best live action short Oscar
- Love Jones
- The Six Triple Eight
- Mississippi Masala
- One Night in Miami
- Crash
- Hotel Rwanda
- American Society of Magical Negroes
- Purple Rain
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