# The best movies about the civil rights movement

From the Montgomery bus boycott and the march from Selma to Mississippi Burning, Loving and Hidden Figures: the films about the American civil rights struggle that TME.NET recommends.

- 82 votes · 14 items
- Feb 29, 2024 · boxoffice_atlanta
- https://even.best/en/l/4560/the-best-movies-about-the-civil-rights-movement

## Top 14

1. **Selma (2014)** (10 · ▲10 ▼0) — Ava DuVernay. Martin Luther King's 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights.
2. **Mississippi Burning (1988)** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — Alan Parker. FBI agents investigate the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers.
3. **The Help (2011)** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Tate Taylor. Black maids in early-1960s Jackson, Mississippi, tell their stories.
4. **Hidden Figures (2016)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Theodore Melfi. The Black women mathematicians who worked for NASA.
5. **Detroit (2017)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Kathryn Bigelow. The Algiers Motel incident during the 1967 Detroit riot.
6. **BlacKkKlansman (2018)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Spike Lee. A Black detective who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s.
7. **Malcolm X (1992)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Spike Lee. Denzel Washington as Malcolm X, from street hustler to Nation of Islam minister.
8. **Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Rob Reiner. The trial of Medgar Evers's murderer, three decades later.
9. **Loving (2016)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Jeff Nichols. The couple behind the 1967 Supreme Court ruling that struck down bans on interracial marriage.
10. **Ruby Bridges (1998)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Euzhan Palcy. The first Black child to attend an all-white school in New Orleans.
11. **Boycott (2001)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Clark Johnson. Jeffrey Wright as Martin Luther King during the Montgomery bus boycott.
12. **The Butler (2013)** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — Lee Daniels. A White House butler who served under seven presidents.
13. **The Long Walk Home (1990)** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — Richard Pearce. Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek during the Montgomery bus boycott.
14. **Remember the Titans (2000)** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Boaz Yakin. A Black coach and a newly integrated high school football team in Virginia.

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