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Archive - Black Directors: The Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films

06/04/23: I cloned Jack Moulton's list Black Directors: The Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films and added everything that has been a part of the list before (according to the comments).

Trying to keep this collection of films that are/were at some point part of the list up to date.

• JANUARY ‘26 UPDATE: This list has now been expanded to a top 250 and the ratings threshold to 2,000 ratings.
• FEBRUARY ‘26 UPDATE: This list has now been transferred to the Official Lists HQ and is curated by Mihir Nanda.

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    1

  • Do the Right Thing

    2

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    3

  • Malcolm X

    4

  • Moonlight

    5

  • Who Killed Captain Alex?

    6

  • 12 Years a Slave

    7

  • My Father's Shadow

    8

  • Get Out

    9

  • Camp de Thiaroye

    10

  • Mangrove

    11

  • Sinners

    12

  • Black Girl

    13

  • West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty

    14

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

    15

  • Hyenas

    16

  • The Watermelon Woman

    17

  • Boyz n the Hood

    18

  • Lovers Rock

    19

  • Soleil O

    20

  • Pariah

    21

  • Training Day

    22

  • Looking for Langston

    23

  • Judas and the Black Messiah

    24

  • Black Dynamite

    25

  • Hunger

    26

  • Personal Problems

    27

  • Compensation

    28

  • Nickel Boys

    29

  • Fruitvale Station

    30

  • The Spook Who Sat by the Door

    31

  • Killer of Sheep

    32

  • Moolaadé

    33

  • The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun

    34

  • BlacKkKlansman

    35

  • Soul

    36

  • Goodbye Julia

    37

  • To Sleep with Anger

    38

  • Crooklyn

    39

  • If Beale Street Could Talk

    40

  • Deep Cover

    41

  • Menace II Society

    42

  • Rye Lane

    43

  • Bad Black

    44

  • Bless Their Little Hearts

    45

  • Emitaï

    46

  • Mars One

    47

  • Drylongso

    48

  • Crazy World

    49

  • Paid in Full

    50

  • Submarine

    51

  • Bamboozled

    52

  • Sometimes in April

    53

  • One Way or Another

    54

  • Losing Ground

    55

  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

    56

  • The Annihilation of Fish

    57

  • 25th Hour

    58

  • I Am Not a Witch

    59

  • Sambizanga

    60

  • Sugar Cane Alley

    61

  • 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

    62

  • Coach Carter

    63

  • The Story of a Three-Day Pass

    64

  • Eve's Bayou

    65

  • Love Jones

    66

  • Red, White and Blue

    67

  • Pressure

    68

  • On the Count of Three

    69

  • Les Misérables

    70

  • Coffee With Cinnamon

    71

  • Chameleon Street

    72

  • Mandabi

    73

  • I Love Boosters

    74

  • Touki Bouki

    75

  • Creed

    76

  • Straight Outta Compton

    77

  • A Thousand and One

    78

  • Selma

    79

  • The Forty-Year-Old Version

    80

  • Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

    81

  • Timbuktu

    82

  • Mudbound

    83

  • Saint Omer

    84

  • Exhibiting Forgiveness

    85

  • Bamako

    86

  • Shame

    87

  • Set It Off

    88

  • Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)

    89

  • A Bruddah's Mind

    90

  • Daughters of the Dust

    91

  • Mo' Better Blues

    92

  • American Fiction

    93

  • D.E.B.S.

    94

  • Sorry to Bother You

    95

  • My Brother's Wedding

    96

  • One False Move

    97

  • Watermelon Man

    98

  • Earth Mama

    99

  • Queen & Slim

    100