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Slate's The New Black Film Canon: The 75 Greatest Movies by Black Directors

"From Touki Bouki to Friday, the 75 greatest movies by Black directors, as chosen by [Slate's] special panel of filmmakers and critics." Curated by Aisha Harris (NPR, Slate) and Dan Kois, released on February 27, 2023. This was an update to the Black Film Canon list that was released in 2016.

Full article: slate.com/culture/2023/02/best-black-movies-directors-streaming.html
Thank you to Andy Nelson (cloned their Slate's 50 Black Movies list)

  • Within Our Gates
  • Eleven P.M.
  • The Blood of Jesus
  • Black Girl
  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
  • The Learning Tree
  • Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
  • Shaft
  • Super Fly
  • Touki Bouki
  • The Spook Who Sat by the Door
  • Cooley High
  • Car Wash
  • Killer of Sheep
  • Losing Ground
  • Cane River
  • Ashes and Embers
  • Sugar Cane Alley
  • Hollywood Shuffle
  • Do the Right Thing
  • Tongues Untied
  • Chameleon Street
  • Looking for Langston
  • House Party
  • Mo' Better Blues
  • To Sleep with Anger
  • Daughters of the Dust
  • Boyz n the Hood
  • Juice
  • Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
  • Malcolm X
  • Sankofa
  • Crooklyn
  • Alma's Rainbow
  • I Like It Like That
  • Friday
  • Devil in a Blue Dress
  • Waiting to Exhale
  • The Watermelon Woman
  • Eve's Bayou
  • Love & Basketball
  • 25th Hour
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
  • Medicine for Melancholy
  • Night Catches Us
  • Pariah
  • Middle of Nowhere
  • Fruitvale Station
  • Belle
  • 12 Years a Slave
  • Timbuktu
  • Selma
  • Bessie
  • Creed
  • O.J.: Made in America
  • Moonlight
  • I Am Not Your Negro
  • Get Out
  • Girls Trip
  • Hale County This Morning, This Evening
  • Sorry to Bother You
  • Black Panther
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
  • Atlantics
  • Time
  • Zola
  • The Forty-Year-Old Version
  • Lovers Rock
  • Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
  • Nanny
  • Nope
  • Saint Omer
  • The Woman King