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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 11 films in this list released in the 2000s.

  • Hunger

    23

  • Black Dynamite

    25

  • Training Day

    26

  • Moolaadé

    28

  • 25th Hour

    52

  • Bamboozled

    57

  • Sometimes in April

    62

  • Paid in Full

    72

  • Coach Carter

    81

  • Bamako

    92

  • D.E.B.S.

    99