Films about racism in the United States

1994 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

2013 film directed by Steve McQueen

1999 film directed by Frank Darabont

2012 film by Quentin Tarantino

2018 film by Peter Farrelly

2017 film by Guillermo del Toro

1998 film directed by Tony Kaye

2004 film by Paul Haggis

2011 film directed by Tate Taylor

1915 film directed by D. W. Griffith

2012 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2009 film by Clint Eastwood

2017 film directed by Jordan Peele

1961 film by Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins

1962 film by Robert Mulligan

1967 film by Norman Jewison

1989 film directed by Bruce Beresford

1988 film by Alan Parker

1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg

One Battle After Another is a 2025 American action-comedy-thriller film written, directed, and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. The film's ensemble cast is led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti. It follows a washed-up former revolutionary who is brought back into conflict when his enemy resurfaces after sixteen years.

2016 film directed by Theodore Melfi

Sinners is a 2025 American horror film produced, written, and directed by Ryan Coogler. Set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta, it stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as criminal twin brothers who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South, where they are confronted by a supernatural evil. The film co-stars Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller, and Delroy Lindo.

1967 film by Stanley Kramer

2022 film directed by Baz Luhrmann

2021 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1993 film directed by Robert De Niro

1974 film directed by Mel Brooks

1996 film by Joel Schumacher

1997 film directed by Kevin Costner

2014 film directed by Ava DuVernay

1992 film by Spike Lee

2015 film directed by F. Gary Gray

2013 film directed by Lee Daniels

2001 film by Marc Forster

2000 film directed by George Tillman Jr.

2020 film directed by Aaron Sorkin

1955 Film

1999 film directed by Norman Jewison

2000 American sports film directed by Boaz Yakin

1989 film directed by Spike Lee

2013 film directed by Brian Helgeland

1992 film directed by Bernard Rose

2002 film by Todd Haynes

2017 film directed by Dee Rees

1991 film by John Singleton

2016 film directed by Nate Parker

2018 film directed by Barry Jenkins

2000 film directed by John Singleton

2008 film directed by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg

Suburbicon is a 2017 American black comedy crime film directed by George Clooney and co-written by the Coen brothers, Clooney, and Grant Heslov. It stars Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Noah Jupe, and Oscar Isaac, and follows a mild-mannered father in 1959 who must face his demons after a home invasion, all while a black family moves into the all-white neighborhood. The black family storyline is loosely based on a 1957 incident in Levittown, Pennsylvania, in which a black family moved into the previously all-white neighborhood, leading to racism and violence against the family.

2001 film by Henry Bean

2016 film directed by Jeff Nichols

1984 film by Norman Jewison

1960 film directed by John Huston

2017 film directed by David Ayer

1991 film directed by Spike Lee

2019 film directed by Tate Taylor

2007 film by Denzel Washington

2017 film directed by Kathryn Bigelow

2003 film by Andrew Davis