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33 Black Films That Woke a White Man

February 15, 2025 1921 Race Massacre / About 1256 / Africa / African-American / Ancestors / Black Lives Matter / Black Theology / Black Wall Street / Racism / social justice

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.

  1. If Beale Street Could Talk, based on a book by James Baldwin
  2. Love and Basketball
  3. The Help
  4. A Time for Burning
  5. 13th, Ava DuVernay
  6. Just Mercy, based on the life of Bryan Stevenson
  7. When We Were Kings, a documentary about the life of Muhammad Ali
  8. Straight Outta Compton
  9. The Hate You Give, based on a novel by Angie Thomas
  10. Spike Lee’s Malcolm X
  11. Till
  12. Black Panther
  13. Selma
  14. Nationtime
  15. Coach Carter
  16. I Am Not Your Negro, based on a book by James Baldwin
  17. Hidden Figures
  18. Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman
  19. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
  20. Do the Right Thing
  21. Moonlight
  22. Get Out
  23. Boys n the Hood
  24. Judas and the Black Messiah
  25. Skin: 2018 best live action short Oscar
  26. Love Jones
  27. The Six Triple Eight
  28. Mississippi Masala
  29. One Night in Miami
  30. Crash
  31. Hotel Rwanda
  32. American Society of Magical Negroes
  33. Purple Rain

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Greg R Taylor

I am a home builder in Northeastern Oklahoma and president of 1256Movement.org. Proceeds from my latest book published in 2023, Prodigals, benefit this nonprofit dedicated to reparations of racial trauma in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Taylor is author of several books, including a coauthored work with Randy Harris titled Living Jesus. He and his wife, Jill, have three adult children, Ashley, Anna, and Jacob, for whom Prodigals is dedicated. I’ve been a writer for 30 years, a professional writer and editor for most of those years. No matter what other jobs I’ve done, I’ve continued to write. I’m the author, co-author, editor, or ghostwriter of many books you can see here. You’ll find a lot of topics I’ve written about listed and I've tried to categorize them so there should be bread crumbs for you to follow your interests. I’m 2024, I’ll celebrate 20 years of blogging. You can also find lots of free articles I’ve published in various magazines if you search my name at Christianity Today, Sojourners, and Wineskins. I wrote many book reviews for Publishers Weekly some years back but most of the reviews are not named reviews for sake of objectivity.

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