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94 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
241581 votes

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Summary: Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa.

Release Date: February 04, 2005

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Terry George

Writers: Keir Pearson

, Terry George

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: United Artists, Lions Gate Films, Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa, Miracle Pictures, Inside Track Films, Mikado Film, Endgame Entertainment

Distributor: United Artists, Lions Gate Films, MGM Home Entertainment, My Network TV, Sony Pictures Television

Countries: United Kingdom, South Africa, Italy, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 17,500,000

Domestic: $ 23,530,892

International: $ 10,351,351

91 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1631 votes

Napoleon (1927)

Summary: A film about the French general's youth and early military career.

Release Date: February 17, 1929

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Abel Gance

Writer: Abel Gance

Runtime: 5 h 30 min

Production: Ciné France, Films Abel Gance, Isepa-Wengeroff Film GmbH, Société générale des films

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Cinema Services Ltd., Images Film Archive, Zoetrope Studios, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: France

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

90 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
140783 votes

12 Years a Slave (2013)

Summary: In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Release Date: November 08, 2013

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Steve McQueen

Writers: John Ridley

, Solomon Northup

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Regency Productions, River Road Entertainment, Plan B Entertainment, Film4, Searchlight Pictures, Summit Entertainment

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 56,671,993

International: $ 131,061,209

90 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
3364 votes

13th (2016)

Summary: An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

Release Date: October 07, 2016

Genres: Crime, Documentary, History

Director: Ava DuVernay

Writers: Spencer Averick

, Ava DuVernay

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Forward Movement, Kandoo Films, Netflix

Country: United States

Language: English

87 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
5868 votes

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

Summary: A one-armed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary.

Release Date: February 13, 1955

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: John Sturges

Writers: Millard Kaufman

, Don McGuire

, Howard Breslin

Runtime: 1 h 21 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Warner Home Video, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,271,000

87 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1265 votes

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)

Summary: Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Release Date: January 31, 1974

Genres: Drama, History

Director: John Korty

Writers: Tracy Keenan Wynn

, Ernest J. Gaines

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: Tomorrow Entertainment

Distributor: Starmaker Entertainment, Sony Wonder, Classic Media, Anderson Digital, HBO Max, Broadway Video, The Criterion Channel, UAV Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

86 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
116843 votes

The Great Debaters (2007)

Summary: A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.

Release Date: December 25, 2007

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: Denzel Washington

Writers: Robert Eisele

, Jeffrey Porro

, Tony Scherman

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Harpo Films, Marshall Production, Roth Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 30,236,407

International: $ 35,149

86 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
8014 votes

Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

Summary: The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.

Release Date: October 12, 1972

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Sidney J. Furie

Writers: Chris Clark

, Suzanne De Passe

, William Dufty

Runtime: 2 h 24 min

MPAA: R

Production: Jobete Productions, Motown Productions, Paramount Pictures

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 6,028,486

86 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
5124 votes

The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)

Summary: A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

Release Date: November 12, 1982

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Director: Peter Greenaway

Writer: Peter Greenaway

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: British Film Institute (BFI), Channel Four Television

Distributor: Zeitgeist Films, Fox Lorber, Warner Home Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 320,000

Domestic: $ 2,256,246

International: $ 26,987

86 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
165 votes

The Central Park Five (2012)

Summary: A documentary that examines the 1989 case of five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park. After having spent between 6 and 13 years each in prison, a serial rapist confessed to the cr...

Release Date: April 25, 2014

Genres: Crime, Documentary, History

Directors: Ken Burns

, Sarah Burns

, David McMahon

Writers: Ken Burns

, Sarah Burns

, David McMahon

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Florentine Films, WETA

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 325,653

85 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
69011 votes

The Proposition (2005)

Summary: A lawman apprehends a notorious outlaw and gives him nine days to kill his older brother, or else they'll execute his younger brother.

Release Date: June 09, 2006

Genres: Drama, Crime, Western

Director: John Hillcoat

Writer: Nick Cave

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: UK Film Council, Surefire Film Productions, Autonomous, Jackie O Productions, Pictures in Paradise, Pacific Film and Television Commission, Film Consortium, National Lottery through UK Film Council

Distributor: First Look International, First Look Television, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Australia, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,903,434

International: $ 3,145,259

85 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
12755 votes

Big Jake (1971)

Summary: In 1909, when John Fain's gang kidnaps Jacob McCandles' grandson and holds him for ransom, Big Jake sets out to rescue the boy.

Release Date: May 26, 1971

Genre: Western

Directors: George Sherman

, John Wayne

Writers: Harry Julian Fink

, Rita M. Fink

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Batjac Productions, Cinema Center Films, Polyphony Digital

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Key Video, Paramount Home Entertainment, Digital Video Management, Fox Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,800,000

85 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
5968 votes

Mudbound (2017)

Summary: Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.

Release Date: November 17, 2017

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Dee Rees

Writers: Virgil Williams

, Dee Rees

, Hillary Jordan

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: R

Production: Armory Films, ArtImage Entertainment, Black Bear Pictures, Elevated Films (II), MACRO, MMC Joule Films, Zeal Media

Distributor: Netflix, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

84 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
7022 votes

1900 (1976)

Summary: The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

Release Date: November 04, 1977

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Writers: Franco Arcalli

, Giuseppe Bertolucci

, Bernardo Bertolucci

Runtime: 5 h 17 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Produzioni Europee Associate (PEA), Les Productions Artistes Associés, Artemis Film

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, Olive Films

Countries: Italy, France, West Germany

Language: Italian

Movie budget: $ 9,000,000

83 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
14372 votes

I Am Not Your Negro (2016)

Summary: Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

Release Date: February 17, 2017

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Raoul Peck

Writers: James Baldwin

, Raoul Peck

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Velvet Film, Velvet Films, Artémis Productions, ITVS International, Independent Lens, Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS), Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Shelter Prod

Distributor: Amazon Studios, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, United States, Belgium, Switzerland

Language: English

Domestic: $ 7,123,919

International: $ 1,221,379

83 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
6767 votes

Places in the Heart (1984)

Summary: In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.

Release Date: October 05, 1984

Genre: Drama

Director: Robert Benton

Writer: Robert Benton

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Delphi II Productions, TriStar Pictures

Distributor: CBS/Fox, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Twilight Time, Disney Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 34,901,614

82 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
213 votes

Intruder in the Dust (1949)

Summary: In 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.

Release Date: March 20, 1950

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Clarence Brown

Writers: William Faulkner

, Ben Maddow

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 988,000

81 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
294651 votes

Gangs of New York (2002)

Summary: In 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer.

Release Date: December 20, 2002

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Martin Scorsese

Writers: Jay Cocks

, Steven Zaillian

, Kenneth Lonergan

Runtime: 2 h 47 min

MPAA: R

Production: Miramax, Initial Entertainment Group (IEG), Alberto Grimaldi Productions

Distributor: Miramax Home Entertainment, HBO Max, ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group

Countries: Italy, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 100,000,000

Domestic: $ 77,812,000

International: $ 115,960,504

79 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
270 votes

The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)

Summary: Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she has a tumultuous affair.

Release Date: February 26, 2021

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Lee Daniels