List of racism-related films

This is a list of films that deal with the topic of race or racism. (*) mark are documentary films.

United States
1915 1916 1919  Oscar Micheaux 1920
 * The Birth of a Nation
 * Intolerance
 * Broken Blossoms (1 remake: UK, 1936)
 * Within Our Gates

United States
1920
 * In the Depths of Our Hearts

United States
1930 1936 1939
 * Son of the Gods
 * Show Boat
 * Gone With the Wind
 * Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert*

Other Countries

 * Triumph of the Will (Germany, 1935)
 * Circus (USSR, 1936)

United States
1942 1943 1947 1949
 * In This Our Life
 * Hitler's Children
 * Crossfire
 * Gentleman's Agreement
 * Home of the Brave 
 * Lost Boundaries
 * Pinky

Other Countries

 * The Eternal Jew (Germany, 1940)
 * Jud Süß (Germany, 1940)
 * Angelitos negros (Mexico, 1948) (1 remake: Mexico, 1970)

United States
1950 1951 1952 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
 * The Jackie Robinson Story
 * No Way Out
 * Go for Broke!
 * The Well
 * Japanese War Bride
 * Toxi
 * Salt of the Earth
 * Bad Day at Black Rock
 * Giant
 * 12 Angry Men
 * Edge of the City
 * Island in the Sun
 * Sayonara
 * The Defiant Ones
 * The Mark of the Hawk (US/UK)
 * Come Back, Africa (South Africa/US)
 * The Crimson Kimono
 * The Cry of Jazz*
 * The Hate That Hate Produced* TV
 * Imitation of Life
 * Odds Against Tomorrow
 * Shadows
 * Shock Corridor

Other Countries

 * Cry, the Beloved Country (UK, 1951)
 * Native Son (Argentina, 1951)
 * Mulata (Mexico, 1954)
 * Yambaó (México/Cuba, 1957)
 * Black Orpheus (Brazil/France/Italy, 1959)
 * Kiku to Isamu (Japan, 1959)
 * Sapphire (UK, 1959)

United States
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
 * All the Young Men
 * Sergeant Rutledge
 * The Unforgiven
 * Bridge to the Sun (France/US)
 * Paris Blues
 * A Raisin in the Sun (1 remake: 2008 TV)
 * West Side Story (1 remake: 2021)
 * The Intruder
 * Pressure Point
 * To Kill a Mockingbird
 * Free, White and 21
 * Gone Are the Days!
 * Shock Corridor
 * Black Like Me
 * Nothing But a Man
 * One Potato, Two Potato
 * A Patch of Blue
 * Lost Command
 * A Man Called Adam
 * A Time for Burning*
 * Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1 remake: 2006)
 * Hurry Sundown
 * In the Heat of the Night (2 sequels: 1970, 1971)
 * The Story of a Three-Day Pass
 * Black Panthers* (France/US)
 * Finian's Rainbow (Ireland/US)
 * The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
 * Planet of the Apes (filmseries)
 * Change of Mind
 * The Learning Tree

Other Countries

 * Flame in the Streets (UK, 1961)
 * The Human Pyramid (Ivory Coast, 1961)
 * The Battle of Algiers (Italy/Algeria, 1966)
 * Black Girl (Senegal/France, 1966)
 * Fair Wind, "Blue Bird"! (Soviet Union/Yugoslavia, 1967)
 * To Sir, with Love (UK, 1967)
 * Death By Hanging (Japan, 1968)
 * Story of a Three Day Pass (France, 1968)
 * Blood of the Condor (Bolivia, 1969)
 * Katrina (South Africa, 1969)
 * Medea (Italy/France/West Germany, 1969)

United States
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
 * The Eye of the Storm* TV (1 sequel: 1985 TV)
 * The Great White Hope
 * Is It Always Right to Be Right?
 * The Landlord
 * ...tick...tick...tick...
 * Watermelon Man
 * Honky
 * Brian's Song TV
 * Brother John
 * Shaft (filmseries)
 * Vanishing Point (1 remake: 1997 TV)
 * Buck and the Preacher
 * The Final Comedown
 * Lady Sings the Blues
 * Sounder (1 sequel: 1976)
 * Stigma TV
 * Coffy
 * The Spook Who Sat by the Door
 * The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman TV
 * Blazing Saddles
 * Conrack
 * The California Reich*
 * Coonskin
 * Mandingo (1 sequel: 1976)
 * Deadly Hero
 * Nightmare in Badham County TV
 * Greased Lightning
 * The Boys from Brazil (UK/US)
 * Lawman Without a Gun TV
 * I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings TV
 * Undercover with the KKK
 * Wilmington 10 -- U.S.A. 10,000*

Other Countries

 * Soleil O (Mauritania/France, 1970)
 * Fist of Fury (Hong Kong, 1972)
 * Fantastic Planet (FR/CZ, 1973)
 * Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (West Germany, 1974)
 * Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Algeria, 1975)
 * The Common Man (France, 1975)
 * The Wilby Conspiracy (UK, 1975)
 * Albino (West Germany/UK/South Africa/Rhodesia, 1976)
 * Pressure (UK, 1976)
 * Game for Vultures (UK, 1979)

United States
1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
 * Crisis At Central High TV
 * Lion of the Desert (Libya/US)
 * Ragtime
 * A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion TV
 * The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America*
 * Midnight
 * Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle*
 * White Dog
 * Twilight Zone: The Movie
 * The Cotton Club
 * The Killing Floor TV
 * Places in the Heart
 * A Soldier's Story
 * The Times of Harvey Milk*
 * The Color Purple
 * Native Son
 * Resting Place TV
 * Soul Man
 * Wildcats
 * Ethnic Notions* (1 sequel: 1992*)
 * A Gathering of Old Men TV
 * Who Killed Vincent Chin?*
 * Alien Nation (franchise)
 * Betrayed
 * Bird
 * Colors
 * For Queen and Country (UK/US)
 * Hairspray
 * Mississippi Burning
 * School Daze
 * Stand and Deliver
 * Talk Radio
 * Dead Bang
 * Do the Right Thing
 * Driving Miss Daisy
 * A Dry White Season (US/France)
 * Glory
 * Lean on Me
 * Lethal Weapon 2
 * The Lunch Date
 * My Past Is My Own TV

Other Countries

 * Manganinnie (Australia, 1980)
 * Speak White* (Canada, 1980)
 * Gandhi (UK/India, 1982)
 * Made in Britain TV (UK, 1982)
 * Pink Floyd – The Wall (UK, 1982)
 * Bread TV (Israel, 1986)
 * Cry Freedom (UK/Zimbabwe, 1987)
 * Blind Justice (UK, 1988)
 * A World Apart (UK/Zimbabwe, 1988)

United States
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
 * Come See the Paradise
 * The Long Walk Home
 * Murder in Mississippi TV
 * Q & A
 * Sudie and Simpson TV
 * Blood in the Face*
 * Boyz n the Hood
 * Brother Future TV
 * Fried Green Tomatoes
 * Jungle Fever
 * Mississippi Masala (UK/US)
 * Paris Trout TV
 * Candyman (film series)
 * Imagining Indians*
 * Incident at Oglala
 * Love Field
 * Malcolm X
 * The Power of One (France/Germany/Australia/US)
 * Sarafina (US/South Africa/UK/France)
 * School Ties
 * White Men Can't Jump
 * Zebrahead
 * Amos & Andrew
 * A Bronx Tale
 * Class of '61 TV
 * Combination Platter
 * The Ernest Green Story TV
 * Menace II Society
 * Sankofa (Burkina Faso/Germany/Ghana/US/UK)
 * Schindler's List
 * Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker TV
 * Corrina, Corrina
 * Forrest Gump
 * The Glass Shield
 * The Shawshank Redemption
 * Whitewash TV
 * Cry, the Beloved Country (South Africa/US)
 * Dangerous Minds
 * Devil in a Blue Dress
 * A Father for Charlie TV
 * Higher Learning
 * The Infiltrator TV
 * Jefferson in Paris (FR/US)
 * The Journey of August King
 * Losing Isaiah
 * Pocahontas
 * The Shadow of Hate*
 * Tales from the Hood (2 sequel: 2018, 2020)
 * Top Dog
 * The Tuskegee Airmen TV
 * The Walking Dead
 * White Man's Burden
 * The Chamber
 * Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
 * A Family Thing
 * Get on the Bus
 * Ghosts of Mississippi
 * The Hunchback of Notre Dame
 * Mr. and Mrs. Loving TV
 * Nightjohn TV
 * Soul of the Game TV
 * A Time To Kill
 * The Watermelon Woman
 * 4 Little Girls*
 * Amistad
 * Buffalo Soldiers TV
 * Hope TV
 * Mandela and de Klerk TV
 * Miss Evers' Boys TV
 * The Postman
 * Rosewood
 * Ambushed TV
 * American History X
 * Apt Pupil
 * Beloved
 * The Farm: Angola, USA*
 * Pariah
 * Ruby Bridges TV
 * Crazy in Alabama
 * A Day in Black and White
 * The Green Mile
 * Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years TV
 * The Hurricane
 * I'll Remember April
 * Introducing Dorothy Dandridge TV
 * A Lesson Before Dying TV
 * Life
 * Our Friend, Martin
 * Passing Glory
 * Selma, Lord, Selma TV
 * Snow Falling On Cedars
 * South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
 * Summer's End (Canada/US)

Other Countries
1991 1992 1993 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
 * The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife* TV (South Africa/UK) (1 sequel: UK, 2006* TV)
 * Minoru: Memory of Exile* (Canada)
 * Once Upon a Time in China (China)
 * Romper Stomper (Australia)
 * Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia* (Canada)
 * For Angela (Canada)
 * Moving the Mountain* (Canada)
 * Schwarzfahrer (Germany)
 * Speak Up! It's So Dark (Sweden)
 * 30:e november (Sweden)
 * Hearts of Hate* TV (Canada)
 * Blue Eyed* (Germany)
 * The Road Taken* (Canada)
 * Taxi (Spain)
 * La vita è bella (Italy)
 * Nattbuss 807 (Sweden)
 * Head On (Australia)
 * East Is East (UK)
 * Flores de otro mundo (Spain)
 * Ichigensan (Japan)
 * Unwanted Soldiers* TV (Canada)

United States
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
 * Bamboozled
 * The Color of Friendship TV (US/Canada)
 * Finding Forrester
 * Freedom Song TV
 * From Swastika to Jim Crow*
 * Men of Honor
 * Remember the Titans
 * Roads and Bridges
 * A Storm in Summer TV
 * Two Family House
 * The Believer
 * Bojangles TV
 * Boycott TV
 * The Feast of All Saints TV
 * Focus
 * Monster's Ball
 * Niggas' Revenge
 * Scottsboro: An American Tragedy*
 * 10,000 Black Men Named George TV
 * The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in Hollywood*
 * Far from Heaven (US/France)
 * Hart's War
 * The Rosa Parks Story TV
 * Sins of the Father TV
 * Bringing Down the House
 * Deacons For Defence TV
 * Jasper, Texas TV
 * Mendez vs. Westminster: For All the Children*
 * The Murder of Emmett Till* TV
 * Crash (US/Germany)
 * A Day Without a Mexican (US/Mexico/Spain)
 * Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (franchise)
 * Hiding and Seeking* TV
 * Hotel Rwanda  (US/UK/South Africa/Italy)
 * The N-Word*
 * Ray
 * Something The Lord Made TV
 * 500 Years Later*
 * Animal
 * Man-Thing (US/Australia)
 * Neo Ned
 * Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson* TV
 * The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till*
 * Amazing Grace (UK/US)
 * Americanese
 * Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (US/UK)
 * Flags of Our Fathers
 * Glory Road
 * Heavens Fall
 * Reel Bad Arabs*
 * The Slanted Screen*
 * Something New
 * Banished*
 * Below the Fold*
 * Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story* TV
 * Descent
 * Freedom Writers
 * The Great Debaters
 * Hairspray (US/UK)
 * Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (Namibia/US)
 * Pride
 * Steel Toes (Canada/US)
 * Talk to Me
 * 4Chosen: The Documentary*
 * The Bank Job (US/UK/Australia)
 * Beautiful Me(s): Finding Our Revolutionary Selves*
 * The Express: The Ernie Davis Story
 * Gospel Hill
 * Lakeview Terrace
 * Neshoba*
 * The Order of Myths*
 * The Secret Life of Bees
 * The Blind Side
 * Christmas in Canaan (US/Canada)
 * Gran Torino
 * Inglorious Bastards (US/Germany)
 * Invictus (South Africa/US)
 * Maafa 21*
 * Prom Night in Mississippi*
 * Soundtrack for a Revolution* (US/FR/UK)
 * Vincent Who?*

Other Countries
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
 * Give Us Our Skeletons* (Norway)
 * Lumumba (France/Belgium/Germany/Haiti)
 * Saroja (Sri Lanka)
 * Khaled (Canada)
 * Too Colourful for the League* TV (Canada)
 * Je me souviens* (Canada)
 * The Pianist (France/Germany/Poland/UK)
 * Little Angel (Sri Lanka)
 * Rabbit-Proof Fence (Australia)
 * Décryptage* (France)
 * Le silence de la forêt (Central African Republic/Cameroon/Gabon/France)
 * Louis and the Nazis* TV (UK)
 * The Zone* (Sweden)
 * Being Osama* (Canada)
 * Continuous Journey* (Canada)
 * The Football Factory (UK)
 * I – Proud to Be an Indian (India)
 * Red Dust (UK/South Africa)
 * Gypo (UK)
 * Man to Man (UK/South Africa/France)
 * Manderlay (Various Countries)
 * Africa Paradis (France/Benin)
 * Brocket 99: Rockin' the Country* (Canada)
 * Days of Glory (France/Morocco/Belgium/Algeria)
 * This Is England (UK)
 * United Gates of America* TV (UK)
 * Goal (India)
 * Mississippi Cold Case* TV (Canada)
 * Nazi Pop Twins* TV (UK)
 * Skin (UK/South Africa)
 * Cedar Boys (Australia)
 * The Combination (Australia)
 * Endgame (UK)
 * London River (UK/France)
 * Mighty Jerome* (Canada)
 * Mugabe and the White African* (UK)
 * Reel Injun* (Canada)

United States
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
 * Blood Done Sign My Name
 * For Colored Girls
 * My Name Is Khan (India/US/Hong Kong)
 * Night Catches Us
 * No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson*
 * Yellow Face*
 * Dark Girls* TV
 * The Double Conscious: Race & Rhetoric*
 * The Help (US/India/United Arab Emirates)
 * Hidden Colors* (4 sequels: 2012*, 2014*, 2016*, 2019*)
 * The Loving Story*
 * Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story*
 * Cloud Atlas (Germany/US)
 * Deepsouth*
 * Django Unchained
 * Lincoln
 * The Paperboy
 * 12 Years a Slave (US/UK/Canada)
 * 42
 * Betty and Coretta TV
 * The Butler
 * Fruitvale Station
 * Hate Crime
 * Inappropriate Comedy
 * Latinos Beyond Reel*
 * The Retrieval
 * Savannah
 * Tula: The Revolt
 * 9-Man*
 * Black Sea (UK/US)
 * Cesar Chavez (Mexico/US)
 * Dear White People
 * Diamond in the Dunes* TV
 * Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football* TV
 * Freedom
 * The Gabby Douglas Story TV
 * Get On Up
 * Hate Crimes in the Heartland* TV
 * Planes: Fire and Rescue
 * Selma (UK/US)
 * Supremacy
 * Take Me to the River*
 * White Chicks
 * You Belong to Me: Sex, Race and Murder in the South*
 * Bars4Justice*
 * Bessie TV
 * Chi-Raq
 * Driving While Black
 * Get Hard
 * Hogtown
 * Last Day of Freedom* TV
 * Rosenwald*
 * Straight Outta Compton
 * Welcome to Leith*
 * What Happened, Miss Simone?* TV
 * White People* TV
 * Woodlawn
 * 13th*
 * All The Way TV
 * An American Girl Story – Melody 1963: Love Has to Win
 * American Pastoral
 * Barry TV
 * The Birth of a Nation
 * Fences
 * Free State of Jones
 * Hidden Figures
 * Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party*
 * I Am Not Your Negro* (Germany/US)
 * In the Hour of Chaos*
 * LBJ
 * Loving (UK/US)
 * Moonlight
 * The North Star
 * Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement* TV
 * A United Kingdom (Czech Republic/France/UK/US)
 * Zootopia
 * Birth of a Movement*
 * Bright TV
 * A Change of Heart
 * The Chinese Exclusion Act* TV
 * Detroit
 * Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?*
 * Get Out
 * Hidden Figures
 * The King*
 * Kings (France/Belgium/US)
 * LA 92* TV
 * Marshall
 * Mudbound
 * My Nephew Emmett
 * Rodney King
 * The Shape of Water
 * Suburbicon
 * Black, White & Blue*
 * BLACKkKLANSMAN
 * Burden
 * Death of a Nation*
 * Fahrenheit 11/9*
 * Green Book
 * Hale County This Morning, This Evening*
 * The Hate U Give
 * If Beale Street Could Talk
 * King in the Wilderness*
 * Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.* (UK/US)
 * Skin
 * Skin
 * American Son TV
 * The Best of Enemies
 * Canal Street
 * Cuck
 * Harriet
 * Hello, Privilege. It's Me, Chelsea* TV
 * Jojo Rabbit (US/New Zealand/Czech Republic)
 * Just Mercy
 * A Love Song for Latasha* TV
 * Luce
 * Ma
 * Miss Virginia
 * The Obituary of Tunde Johnson
 * Queen & Slim
 * See You Yesterday TV
 * Traveling While Black* (Canada/US)

Other Countries
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
 * Crook (India)
 * Frankie and Alice (Canada)
 * He's on Duty (South Korea)
 * Skinning (Serbia)
 * The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975* (Sweden)
 * From C to C: Chinese Canadian Stories of Migration* TV (Canada)
 * Winnie Mandela (South Africa/Canada)
 * Hold Back (France)
 * The Sapphires (Australia)
 * Toussaint Louverture (France)
 * Belle (UK)
 * Heart of a Lion (Finland)
 * ID–WithoutColors* (Germany)
 * Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (UK/South Africa)
 * The Marchers (France/Belgium)
 * Utopia* TV (Australia)
 * Serial (Bad) Weddings (France) (1 sequel: /Belgium, 2019)
 * We Are Young. We Are Strong (Germany)
 * French Blood (France)
 * The Hard Stop* (UK)
 * The Man Who Knew Infinity (UK)
 * Ninth Floor* (Canada)
 * The Pass System* (Canada)
 * Amerika Square (Greece)
 * Chocolat (France)
 * Kalushi (South Africa)
 * Race (Canada/France/Germany)
 * An Act of Defiance (Netherlands/South Africa)
 * Black Cop (Canada)
 * The Forgiven (UK)
 * Jasper Jones (Australia)
 * Silent Nights (Denmark)
 * Sweet Country (Australia)
 * White Right: Meeting the Enemy* TV (UK)
 * Black Is Beltza (Spain)
 * Black Sheep* (UK)
 * Farming (UK)
 * The Nightingale (Australia)
 * Pariyerum Perumal (India)
 * Slam (Australia/France)
 * Asuran (India) (1 remake: India, 2021)
 * Axone (India)
 * Blinded by the Light (UK)
 * Ip Man 4: The Finale (Hong Kong/China)
 * The Last Victims (South Africa)
 * There's Something in the Water* (Canada)
 * White Eye (Israel)
 * Bala (2019 film)

United States
2020 2021 2022
 * The 24th
 * Aggie*
 * The Banker
 * Coded Bias*
 * A Crime on the Bayou*
 * Da 5 Bloods
 * Son of the South
 * Two Distant Strangers
 * Attica* TV
 * Karen
 * Summer of Soul*
 * Master
 * Emergency
 * Till
 * The Walk
 * Bowl Game Armageddon (2023 film)

Other Countries

 * Black Bodies (Canada, 2020)
 * Colour Photo (India, 2020)
 * Corona (Canada, 2020)
 * Coronavirus (India, 2020)
 * The Odd-Job Men (Spain/France, 2021)
 * The Survival of Kindness (Australia, 2023)