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100 Best African American Films

This is a list of the best African American Films

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1. The Color Purple
by Steven Spielberg
  
2. Eve's Bayou
by Kasi Lemmons
  
3. School Daze  
4. Jungle Fever  
5. Carmen Jones
by Otto Preminger
  
6. Love Jones
by Theodore Witcher
  
7. The Inkwell
by Matty Rich
  
8. Bamboozled
by Spike Lee
  
9.
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 She's Gotta Have It  
10. Rosewood
by John Singleton
  
11. The Five Heartbeats  
12. Hoodlum
by Bill Duke
  
13.
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 Roots
by Gilbert Moses
  
14. What's Love Got To Do With It?
by Brian Gibson
  
15. Hotel Rwanda
by Terry George
  
16. Amistad
by Steven Spielberg
  
17. City of God
by Fernando Meirelles
  
18. Akeelah and the Bee (Widescreen Edition)
by Doug Atchison
  
19. The Hurricane
by Norman Jewison
  
20. Crooklyn  
21. A Raisin in the Sun
by Daniel Petrie
  
22. Coming to America
by John Landis
  
23. Harlem Nights  
24. Soul Food
by George Tillman Jr.
  
25. Cooley High
by Michael Schultz
  
26. Love and Basketball (New Line Platinum Series)  
27. Cornbread, Earl & Me
by Joseph Manduke
  
28. The Tuskegee Airmen
by Robert Markowitz
  
29. Lean on Me
by John G. Avildsen
  
30. Do the Right Thing  
31. Waiting to Exhale
by Forest Whitaker
  
32. Friday (New Line Platinum Series)  
33. Boyz 'N the Hood  
34. Stormy Weather  
35. Lady Sings the Blues
by Sidney J. Furie
  
36. Shaft  
37.
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 Mahogany
by Barry Gordy
  
38. The Wiz
by Sidney Lumet
  
39. Glory
by Edward Zwick
  
40. Get on the Bus
by Spike Lee
  
41. Daughters of the Dust
by Julie Dash
  
42. Dead Presidents
by Allen Hughes
  
43. Jason's Lyric
by Doug McHenry
  
44. Poetic Justice
by John Singleton
  
45. Higher Learning
by John Singleton
  
46. Mo' Better Blues  
47. Ali  
48. Hav Plenty  
49. Buck and the Preacher
by Sidney Poitier
  
50. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
by Melvin Van Peebles
  
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Created by isis8319 on Jan 08, 2007.