Ant Clemons

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Some original mocap footage used to animate the characters in the first Mortal Kombat game!

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70 Classic Black Films Everyone Should See At Least Once

♬ "Do you know where you're going to?"♬ Here are 70 of the most iconic black films, through the year 2000.

this list ignores the last 15 years of movies, but that makes sense. if we’re going to talk about “classics”, we have to give the movies time to become classics.

legend ( italicized - seen it, bold- have a copy of it too)

Carmen Jones (1954)

Imitation of Life (1959)

Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Shaft (1971)

Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)

Super Fly (1972)

Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

The Mack (1973)

Coffy (1973)

Black Caesar (1973)

Cleopatra Jones (1974)

Foxy Brown (1974)

Claudine (1974)

Uptown Saturday Night (1974)

Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)

Dolemite (1975)

Cooley High (1975)

Mahogany (1975)

Sparkle (1976)

Car Wash (1976)

The Wiz (1978)

Breakin’ (1984)

Beat Street (1984)

A Soldier’s Story (1984)

Purple Rain (1984)

Krush Groove (1985)

The Color Purple (1985)

Hollywood Shuffle (1987)

Raw (1987)

School Daze (1988)

Coming to America (1988)

Lean On Me (1989)

Glory (1989)

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Harlem Nights (1989)

Mo’ Better Blues (1989)

House Party (1990)

The Five Heartbeats (1991)

Jungle Fever (1991)

Strictly Business (1991)

Boyz n the Hood (1991)

New Jack City (1991)

White Men Can’t Jump (1992)

Bebe’s Kids (1992) (used to have this on VHS lol)

Boomerang (1992)

Malcolm X (1992)

Juice (1992)

Class Act (1992)

What’s Love Got to Do With It (1993)

CB4 (1993)

Posse (1993)

Poetic Justice (1993)

Menace II Society (1993)

Jason’s Lyric (1994)

A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)

Tales From the Hood (1995)

Bad Boys (1995)

Friday (1995)

Waiting to Exhale (1995)

Higher Learning (1995)

Set It Off (1996)

Hav Plenty (1998)

Eve’s Bayou (1997)

Love Jones (1997)

Soul Food (1997)

Belly (1998)

How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)

The Best Man (1999)

The Wood (1999)

Love & Basketball (2000)

of course she couldn’t get ALL of the movies on here… but some notable misses :

The Temptations (1998)

Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1998)

Dead Presidents (1995)

Polly (1989)

A Hero Ain’t Nothing But A Sandwich (1978)

The Marva Collins Story (1981)

Sister Act II (1993)

Hoodlum (1997)

Women of Brewster Place (1989) 

Little Richard (2000)

Bamboozled (2000)

I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)

The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992)

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)

Preacher’s Wife (1996)

The Bodyguard (1992)

Mo Money (1992) (ok maybe not so notable, but yeah)

Blankman (1994)

The 6th Man (1997)

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This list is perfect.

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Unappreciated party of one

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Lmao

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Don’t forget the homie Blankman

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All my favorite heroes!!

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But y'all forgot about

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Drama

Pariah

The Color Purple

Do the Right Thing

Eve’s Bayou

LUV

School Daze

Higher Learning

Waiting to Exhale

This Christmas

Boyz N the Hood

Comedy

Friday

Next Friday

Friday After the Next

Undercover Brother

House Party

The Nutty Professor

The Nutty Professor 2

Big Mama’s House 

Life

CB4

Down to Earth

Coming to America

HairShow

Phat Girlz

Scary Movie 1

Scary Movie 2

Haunted House

White Chicks

Don’t be a Meance…

Barbershop

Barbershop 2: Back in Business

Beauty shop

Death at a Funeral

Sci-fi and Fantasy

Blade

Blade II

Blade Trinity

Black Knight

Spawn

Meteor Man

Up Up Away

Seventeen Again

Beasts of a Southern Wild

After Earth

Twitches

Twitches Too

Vampire in Brooklyn

Animation

Princess and the Frog

One by One (Short Disney film)

Bebe’s Kids

African Tales: The Mark of Uru, Business and Pleasure, Enemy of the Rising Sun 

Zarafa (French film with english subtitles)

Aya de Yopougon

Nadia Secret of Blue water (anime film)

Kirikou and the Sorceress

Crime /Action

Bad Boys

Bad Boys 2

New Jack City

Set it Off

Romantic Comedy

Love Jones

Brown Sugar

The Best Man

Think Like a Man

Boomerang

Two Can play that game

The Wood

Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom

Deliver us from Eva

Jumping the Broom

Horror/Thriller

Gothika

Tales from the hood

Bones

The Inheritance

Biopics

What’s Love got to do with it?

The Temptations

The Jacksons An American Dream  (part 2) (part 3)

Lady Sings the Blues

Introducing Dorthy Dandrige

Notorious

Malcolm X

The Lena Baker Story

Why do fools fall in love?

Ray

The Josephine Baker Story

Musicals

The Wiz

Carmen Jones

Dreamgirls

Sparkle (1976)

Sparkle (2012)

Sister Act

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habbit

Carmen a Hip Hopera

Babymother

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I don’t even know which one to watch first

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