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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.…

There are 72 dramatic films in this list available on Amazon US.

  • Malcolm X

    4

  • Personal Problems

    22

  • Camp de Thiaroye

    11

  • Straight Outta Compton

    74

  • Nickel Boys

    27

  • Sometimes in April

    62

  • BlacKkKlansman

    32

  • Bamboozled

    57

  • Coach Carter

    81

  • 25th Hour

    52

  • Mudbound

    87

  • 12 Years a Slave

    8

  • Creed

    70

  • Selma

    77

  • Judas and the Black Messiah

    19

  • Pressure

    68

  • Moolaadé

    28

  • Saint Omer

    86

  • Set It Off

    100

  • Training Day

    26

  • Do the Right Thing

    3

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

    17

  • If Beale Street Could Talk

    36

  • The Killing Floor

    83

  • Exhibiting Forgiveness

    88

  • American Fiction

    90

  • A Thousand and One

    78

  • Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)

    96

  • Bamako

    92

  • Crooklyn

    47

  • Boyz n the Hood

    15

  • Daughters of the Dust

    93

  • Moonlight

    6

  • Hyenas

    18

  • Eve's Bayou

    76

  • Love Jones

    82

  • One False Move

    94

  • Oh, Sun

    21

  • Les Misérables

    58

  • Sugar Cane Alley

    64

  • The Spook Who Sat by the Door

    34

  • The Annihilation of Fish

    50

  • Shame

    80

  • To Sleep with Anger

    41

  • Emitaï

    46

  • Earth Mama

    98

  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

    85

  • Paid in Full

    72

  • Bush Mama

    37

  • Menace II Society

    45

  • Submarine

    53

  • Hunger

    23

  • Timbuktu

    84

  • Chameleon Street

    69

  • I Am Not a Witch

    61

  • Touki Bouki

    59

  • Mandabi

    75

  • The Story of a Three-Day

    54

  • Pariah

    24

  • Losing Ground

    55

  • On the Count of Three

    63

  • The Watermelon Woman

    14

  • Bless Their Little Hearts

    39

  • Fruitvale Station

    33

  • Drylongso

    51

  • My Brother's Wedding

    95

  • Killer of Sheep

    31

  • Supa Modo

    65

  • Who Killed Captain Alex?

    7

  • Black Girl

    12

  • Looking for Langston

    20

  • The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun

    29