A list originally mirrored from Letterboxd.
Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film, emerging in the United States during the early 1970s. The Los Angeles National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) head and ex-film publicist Junius Griffin coined the term from the words "black" and "exploitation."
Collection of additional "must-see" Danny Perry's movies, presented in the back of his "Guide for the Film Fanatic"
546 movies missing. Imported from external source.
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Tired of slave movies?
Know black history and cinema is WAYYYY more than being chained to a damn ship and picking cotton?
Than this is the list for you.
Coming of Age
Drama
Scifi
Comedy
Horror
Autobiographical
The National Film Registry is the United States National Film Preservation Board's selection of films for preservation in the Library of Congress. The Board was established in 1988. Each year, 25 "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films" are preserved, to increase awareness for its preservation. To be eligible for inclusion, a film must be at least ten years old but it is not required to be feature-length, nor is it required to have been theatrically released.
Source: https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/
blax·ploi·ta·tion
noun
The exploitation of black people, especially with regard to stereotyped roles in movies
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Collection of additional "must-see" Danny Perry's movies, presented in the back of his "Guide for the Film Fanatic"
546 movies missing. Imported from external source.
By Shawn Edwards, Co-Founder, African American Film Critics Association
Source: https://bit.ly/AAFCA-110IFatBE-Playlist
Source: https://bit.ly/AAFCA-110IFatBE-Article
Date: 2020-06-05
Tags: #theme #list-order #complete
Movies with spy plot in any form (dramas, action, adventure, comedies, war, crime, mystery, conspiracy theories, political thrillers, science fiction, e.t.c.).
Definition: A Spy movie shows the espionage activities of government agents seeking to uncover or maintain secrets from each other and for one country or for the benefit of another. Offering a combination of exciting escapism, technological thrills, and exotic locales, and combine the action and science fiction genres. They may also involve elements of political thrillers.
Essential / Must-see / Genre-defying: espionage movies:
North By Northwest (1959)
Notorious (1946)
The Conversation (1974)
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Casino Royale (2006)
Slate's Black Film Canon is two things: first, a reaction to #OscarsSoWhite and the exclusion of black filmmakers from most canonical film lists. Second, by challenging how film lovers think about which films matter in cinema history, the hope is Hollywood will encourage and honor black stories told by black filmmakers.
Slate asked "prominent filmmakers, critics, and scholars" (including Ava DuVernay, Robert Townsend, Charles Burnett, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Wesley Morris, and Henry Louis Gates Jr) and used their lists of favorite movies to develop a curated canon of fifty great films by black directors made in the Americas and Africa. The project excluded movies about black people but directed by non-blacks (A Raisin in the Sun, Coming to America). It is also not a poll: it’s an unranked list presented chronologically.
Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/cover_story/2016/05/the_50_greatest_films_by_black_directors.html
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Movies released during the 1970s to watch
black movies
Scripted Live Action Movies
This is the Black Film Canon created by Slate.com. Located here - http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/cover_story/2016/05/the_50_greatest_films_by_black_directors.html
*These movies appear in Alphabetical order.
Making plans for Nigels
Pulled from article
All U.S. Released Movies- 1972-2016
by Necrul