Movies like I Am Not Your Negro

20 movies like I Am Not Your Negro, ordered by similarity : The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show(2020), Two Trains Runnin'(2016), Malcolm X(1972), King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis(1970), Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art(2015), Abacus: Small Enough to Jail(2016), The Gleaners and I(2000), Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love(2019), Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart(2014), Joe Cocker: Mad Dog with Soul(2017), Obey Giant(2017), Tales of the Grim Sleeper(2014) ...

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I Am Not Your Negro

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

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The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show

For one week in February 1968, Johnny Carson gave up his chair to Harry Belafonte, the first time an African-American had hosted a late night TV show for a whole week.

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Two Trains Runnin'

In June of 1964, two groups of young men travel to Mississippi. Though neither group was aware of the other, each had come on the same errand: to find an old blues singer and coax him out of retirement.

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Malcolm X

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.

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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

The tribute features newsreel clips of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., from 1955 to 1968, including his "I Have a Dream" speech.

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Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art

Set in the desolate desert spaces of the American southwest, the film unearths the history of land art during the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s. Troublemakers is ultimately a story ... See full summary »

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Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

A small financial institution called Abacus becomes the only company criminally indicted in the wake of the United States' 2008 mortgage crisis.

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The Gleaners and I

Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris.

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Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen.

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Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart

A small-town murder in New England became one of the highest-profile cases of the twentieth century. As the first fully televised court case, the Pamela Smart trial rattled the ... See full summary »

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Joe Cocker: Mad Dog with Soul

The story of singer Joe Cocker is told through archive footage and interviews for close associates.

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Obey Giant

The life and career of street artist, illustrator, graphic designer, activist, and founder of OBEY Clothing, Shepard Fairey.

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Tales of the Grim Sleeper

Nick Broomfield digs into the case of the notorious serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper, who terrorized South Central Los Angeles over a span of twenty-five years.

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Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

Storyboard artist Harold Michelson and his wife, film researcher Lillian Michelson, were once considered the heart of Hollywood.

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Spirit Game: Pride of a Nation

The documentary follows The Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Team on the road as they compete in the 2015 World Box Lacrosse Championships. For the first time ever, the Championship Games were ... See full summary »

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Soundtrack for a Revolution

Tells the story of the American civil rights movement through its powerful music - the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, and in jail cells as they fought for ... See full summary »

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I Believe in Miracles

The story of the history-making Nottingham Forest team that won back-to-back European Cups in 1979 and 1980, led by the mercurial Brian Clough and his assistant Peter Taylor.

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#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories

It is based on five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared her same fate of "deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence," according to promotional materials.

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Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang

Trace the rise of contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang from childhood in Mao's China to global art world superstar, and join his quest to realize his lifelong obsession: Sky Ladder.

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The Devil We Know

Citizens in West Virginia take on a powerful corporation after they discover it has knowingly been dumping a toxic chemical -- now found in the blood of 99.7 percent of Americans -- into the local drinking water supply.

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Atomic Homefront

A terrifying look at the corruption that's destroying our nation and our planet. This should shake every American citizen. Citizens of an American city fight back against corruption and greed and try to save their own lives.

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