# Black American Philosophy Films *A growing list of films to be used as resources in the exploration of various topics in Black American thought. Films with a 🎞 have been reviewed and in most cases specific selections have been chosen.* ## Chronological *Sorted chronologically by depicted time period.* ### 19th Century (1800s) - [[The Woman King (2022). ]] - [[🎞 12 Years a Slave (2013)]] - [[🎞 Amistad (1997)]] - [[🎞 Harriet (2019)]] - [[The Harder They Fall (2021)]] - [[🎞 Roots (2016)]] - [The Book of Negroes](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1495950/?ref_=kw_li_tt) - [Enslaved](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9179882/?ref_=kw_li_tt) ### 20th Century (1900s) **00's-30s** - [[🎞 The Color Purple (1985)]] **40s** - [[🎞 Mudbound (2017)]] **50s** - [[Malcolm X (1992)]] **60s** - [[Selma (2014)]] - [[Eve's Bayou (1997)]] - [[One Night in Miami (2020)]] - [[The Secret Life of Bees (2008)]] - [[Da 5 Bloods (2020)]] - [[Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)]] - [[Dead Presidents (1995)]] - [[Marley (2012)]] **70s** - [[Black Power Mix Tapes (2011)]] - [[The Black Panthers꞉ Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)]] - [[Crooklyn (1994)]] - [[Black Dynamite (2009)]] - [[🎞 BlacKkKlansman (2018)]] - [[If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)]] **80s** - [[Cry Freedom (1987)]] - [[🎞 Precious (2009)]] - [[Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989)]] - [[The Wood (1999)]] - [[Love & Basketball (2000)]] - [[Straight Outta Compton (2015)]] - [[Moonlight (2016)]] **90s** - [[Boomerang (1992)]] - [[Juice (1992)]] - [[CB4 (1993)]] - [[Poetic Justice (1993)]] - [[Menace ll Society (1993)]] - [[Fresh (1994)]] - [[Friday (1995)]] - [[Set It Off (1996)]] - [[Soul Food (1997)]] - [[Bamboozled (2000)]] ### 21st Century (2000s) **2000's** - [[Brown Sugar (2002)]] - [[Fruitvale Station (2013)]] - [[Next Day Air (2009)]] **2010's** - [[Pariah (2011)]] - [[Middle of Nowhere (2012)]] - [[Best Man Holiday (2013)]] - [[Beyond the Lights (2014)]] - [[🎞 Dear White People (2014)]] - [[Girlhood (2014)]] - [[Dope (2015)]] - [[Get Out (2017)]] - [[Girls Trip (2017)]] - [[Black Panther (2018)]] **2020+** - [[Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)]] - [[🎞 Black is King (2020)]] - [[Miss Juneteenth (2020)]] - [[The Old Guard (2020)]] - [[Zola (2020)]] - [[Candyman (2021)]]