The best movies about the civil rights movement
The top 3 according to 82 votes from people: Selma (2014) · Mississippi Burning (1988) · The Help (2011). (Updated Feb 29, 2024.)
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.
Top 14
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1
Selma (2014)
Ava DuVernay. Martin Luther King's 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights.
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2
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Alan Parker. FBI agents investigate the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers.
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3
The Help (2011)
Tate Taylor. Black maids in early-1960s Jackson, Mississippi, tell their stories.
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4
Hidden Figures (2016)
Theodore Melfi. The Black women mathematicians who worked for NASA.
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5
Detroit (2017)
Kathryn Bigelow. The Algiers Motel incident during the 1967 Detroit riot.
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6
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Spike Lee. A Black detective who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s.
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7
Malcolm X (1992)
Spike Lee. Denzel Washington as Malcolm X, from street hustler to Nation of Islam minister.
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8
Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
Rob Reiner. The trial of Medgar Evers's murderer, three decades later.
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9
Loving (2016)
Jeff Nichols. The couple behind the 1967 Supreme Court ruling that struck down bans on interracial marriage.
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10
Ruby Bridges (1998)
Euzhan Palcy. The first Black child to attend an all-white school in New Orleans.
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11
Boycott (2001)
Clark Johnson. Jeffrey Wright as Martin Luther King during the Montgomery bus boycott.
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12
The Butler (2013)
Lee Daniels. A White House butler who served under seven presidents.
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13
The Long Walk Home (1990)
Richard Pearce. Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek during the Montgomery bus boycott.
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14
Remember the Titans (2000)
Boaz Yakin. A Black coach and a newly integrated high school football team in Virginia.
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