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Black Directors: The Official Top 100 Narrative Feature Films

Ranked by average user rating. The list was extracted largely thanks to this megalist of films directed by Black directors. It will be updated on a monthly basis and is an official list progress project on all-time stats pages for Pro and Patron members. (See all films that have entered.)

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ELIGIBILITY RULES:

• This list includes Black co-directors or any Black directors on a diverse team.
• Films must be feature-length (more than 40 minutes), with a theatrical and/or festival release.
• Documentaries of any kind, short films, theater/stage, TV movies, TV series or miniseries, and episodes are excluded.
• There is a 1,000 minimum ratings threshold.

This list is by no means a definitive canon of Black directors in film history.…

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  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    1

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    2

  • Do the Right Thing

    3

  • Malcolm X

    4

  • Moonlight

    5

  • Who Killed Captain Alex?

    6

  • Get Out

    7

  • 12 Years a Slave

    8

  • Mangrove

    9

  • Camp de Thiaroye

    10

  • Nickel Boys

    11

  • Black Girl

    12

  • West Indies

    13

  • Boyz n the Hood

    14

  • The Watermelon Woman

    15

  • Lovers Rock

    16

  • Judas and the Black Messiah

    17

  • This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

    18

  • Hyenas

    19

  • Oh, Sun

    20

  • Hunger

    21

  • Personal Problems

    22

  • Looking for Langston

    23

  • Pariah

    24

  • Black Dynamite

    25

  • Training Day

    26

  • Moolaadé

    27

  • The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun

    28

  • BlacKkKlansman

    29

  • Killer of Sheep

    30

  • Soul

    31

  • Fruitvale Station

    32

  • If Beale Street Could Talk

    33

  • Goodbye Julia

    34

  • Chocolate Babies

    35

  • The Spook Who Sat by the Door

    36

  • Bless Their Little Hearts

    37

  • Bad Black

    38

  • Deep Cover

    39

  • To Sleep with Anger

    40

  • Crazy World

    41

  • Bush Mama

    42

  • Rye Lane

    43

  • Emitaï

    44

  • Menace II Society

    45

  • Mars One

    46

  • 25th Hour

    47

  • Crooklyn

    48

  • Drylongso

    49

  • Submarine

    50

  • The Story of a Three-Day Pass

    51

  • Losing Ground

    52

  • Les Misérables

    53

  • Sambizanga

    54

  • Touki Bouki

    55

  • On the Count of Three

    56

  • Bamboozled

    57

  • Pressure

    58

  • Sometimes in April

    59

  • Red, White and Blue

    60

  • Education

    61

  • Sugar Cane Alley

    62

  • I Am Not a Witch

    63

  • Creed

    64

  • Chameleon Street

    65

  • Sidewalk Stories

    66

  • Shame

    67

  • Selma

    68

  • A Thousand and One

    69

  • Straight Outta Compton

    70

  • Mandabi

    71

  • Supa Modo

    72

  • Coffee with Cinnamon

    73

  • Eve's Bayou

    74

  • The Forty-Year-Old Version

    75

  • Paid in Full

    76

  • The Child of Another

    77

  • The Killing Floor

    78

  • The Day I Met You

    79

  • Timbuktu

    80

  • Saint Omer

    81

  • Love Jones

    82

  • Mudbound

    83

  • Coach Carter

    84

  • A Bruddah's Mind

    85

  • Exhibiting Forgiveness

    86

  • Sorry to Bother You

    87

  • American Fiction

    88

  • Daughters of the Dust

    89

  • One False Move

    90

  • My Brother's Wedding

    91

  • Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)

    92

  • Bamako

    93

  • Watermelon Man

    94

  • Earth Mama

    95

  • The Hate U Give

    96

  • Nope

    97

  • In the Heart of the World

    98

  • King Richard

    99

  • D.E.B.S.

    100