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Black Directors: The Official Top 100 Narrative Feature Films

Ranked by average 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 . (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

  • Sinners

    4

  • Malcolm X

    5

  • Moonlight

    6

  • Who Killed Captain Alex?

    7

  • 12 Years a Slave

    8

  • Get Out

    9

  • Mangrove

    10

  • Camp de Thiaroye

    11

  • Black Girl

    12

  • West Indies

    13

  • The Watermelon Woman

    14

  • Boyz n the Hood

    15

  • Lovers Rock

    16

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

    17

  • Judas and the Black Messiah

    18

  • Hyenas

    19

  • Looking for Langston

    20

  • Personal Problems

    21

  • Oh, Sun

    22

  • Hunger

    23

  • Pariah

    24

  • Black Dynamite

    25

  • Training Day

    26

  • Nickel Boys

    27

  • Moolaadé

    28

  • The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun

    29

  • BlacKkKlansman

    30

  • Killer of Sheep

    31

  • Chocolate Babies

    32

  • Fruitvale Station

    33

  • Soul

    34

  • The Spook Who Sat by the Door

    35

  • If Beale Street Could Talk

    36

  • Bush Mama

    37

  • Goodbye Julia

    38

  • Bless Their Little Hearts

    39

  • Deep Cover

    40

  • To Sleep with Anger

    41

  • Bad Black

    42

  • Crazy World

    43

  • Rye Lane

    44

  • Menace II Society

    45

  • Emitaï

    46

  • Crooklyn

    47

  • Mars One

    48

  • 25th Hour

    49

  • The Annihilation of Fish

    50

  • Drylongso

    51

  • Submarine

    52

  • The Story of a Three-Day

    53

  • Losing Ground

    54

  • Sambizanga

    55

  • Bamboozled

    56

  • Les Misérables

    57

  • Touki Bouki

    58

  • I Am Not a Witch

    59

  • Sometimes in April

    60

  • On the Count of Three

    61

  • Sidewalk Stories

    62

  • Education

    63

  • Sugar Cane Alley

    64

  • Red, White and Blue

    65

  • Supa Modo

    66

  • Pressure

    67

  • Chameleon Street

    68

  • Creed

    69

  • The Child of Another

    70

  • Coffee With Cinnamon

    71

  • Straight Outta Compton

    72

  • Paid in Full

    73

  • Mandabi

    74

  • Selma

    75

  • Eve's Bayou

    76

  • A Thousand and One

    77

  • Shame

    78

  • The Forty-Year-Old Version

    79

  • Love Jones

    80

  • Coach Carter

    81

  • The Killing Floor

    82

  • Timbuktu

    83

  • Saint Omer

    84

  • Mudbound

    85

  • Exhibiting Forgiveness

    86

  • A Bruddah's Mind

    87

  • American Fiction

    88

  • Sorry to Bother You

    89

  • Daughters of the Dust

    90

  • One False Move

    91

  • My Brother's Wedding

    92

  • Bamako

    93

  • Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)

    94

  • Watermelon Man

    95

  • Earth Mama

    96

  • Set It Off

    97

  • D.E.B.S.

    98

  • Le Franc

    99

  • Yaaba

    100