The Blackityest Black Movies to Watch During Black History Month: 2020 Edition
Every year during Black History Month I try to watch at least one black movie a day.
I happen to own a lot of these movies (“The Color Purple,” “The Five Heartbeats,” “The Wiz,” “Coming to America,” “Love Jones,” “Mahogany”…you get the picture). For those of you who don’t own all of this black excellence, but still wanted to join in on the black binge-athon, your girl Lo has your back.
Below I’ve listed all the black ass movies that you can stream for free (with subscription) during Black History month. I’ve also gone ahead and categorized them in case you wanted to go with a theme.
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Alex Cross (Fubo)
Bad Boys (Netflix) (USA)
Bad Boys II (Netflix) (USA)
Bad Boys For Life (In Theaters)
Beverly Hills Cop II (CBS/Amazon)
Black and Blue (In Theaters)
Creed II (Hulu) (Prime)
Four Brothers (Fubo) (Sling)
I Am Legend (Fubo)
Low Down Dirty Shame (HBO/Amazon)
Money Train (Showtime/Amazon)
Passenger 57 (BET+/Amazon)
Proud Mary (Starz/Amazon)
Traffik (Direct TV) (MAXGO)
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Based on a True Story
Ali (Showtime/Amazon)
American Gangster (Hulu)
Amistad (Starz/Amazon)
Antwone Fisher (Starz/Amazon)
Barry (Netflix)
Bessie (Direct TV) (HBONow) (HBO/Amazon) (HBOGo)
BlacKkKlansman (MaxGo) (Cinemax/Amazon)
Boycott (Direct TV) (HBONow) (HBO/Amazon) (HBOGo)
Carolina Skeletons (Prime)
Coach Carter (CBS/Amazon)
Cool Runnings (Disney +)
Detroit (Hulu)
Harriet (In Theaters)
Hoodlum (Prime)
The Hurricane (Hoopla) (Netflix)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Direct TV) (HBONow) (HBO/Amazon) (HBOGo)
Jezebel (Netflix)
Just Mercy (In Theaters)
Lean on Me (BET+/Amazon)
Loving (Direct TV) (MaxGo) (Cinemax/Amazon)
Marshall (Prime)
Miles Ahead (Crackle)
Miracle at St. Ana (Direct TV) (MaxGo) (Cinemax/Amazon) (HBOGo)
Miss Evers Boys (Direct TV) (HBONow) (HBO/Amazon) (HBOGo)
Pride (Direct TV) (HBONow) (HBO/Amazon) (HBOGo) (MAXGo) (Cinemax/Amazon)
Pursuit of Happyness (Showtime/Amazon)
Queen (Prime)
Ray (Starz/Amazon)
Red Tails (Disney +)
Remember the Titans (Disney +)
Roots (1977) (Tubi)
Roots (2016) (Hulu)
Roots The Next Generations (Fubo)
Rosewood (Fubo)
Roxanne, Roxanne (Netflix)
Something the Lord Made (Direct TV) (HBONow) (HBO/Amazon) (HBOGo)
Southside With You (Roku) (Hoopla)
Tyson (Prime)
What’s Love Got to Do with It? (Fubo)
Black College Life
Drumline (Hulu)
Higher Learning (CBS/Amazon)
Black Family Life
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Are We There Yet? (Starz/Amazon)
Daddy’s Little Girls (BET+/Amazon)
Get On The Bus (Crackle)
John Q (Hulu)
Mudbound (Netflix)
Soul Food (Starz/Amazon)
A Raisin in the Sun (2008) (Crackle)
Waves (In Theaters)
Yelling to the Sky (Prime)
Blaxploitation
Black Dynamite (Crackle)
Coffy (Prime)
Civil Rights
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Criterion)
The Hate You Give (Direct TV) (HBO/Amazon) (HBOGO) (HBONOW)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Hulu)
Classic
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The Defiant Ones (Criterion)
Dirty Girtie From Harlem U.S.A. (Prime)
Imitation of Life (1934) (Direct TV) (Watch TCM)
Imitation of Life (1959) (Direct TV)
Intruder in the Dust (Fubo)
The Jackie Robinson Story (Prime) (Starz/Amazon)
Lilies in the Field (Criterion)
A Raisin in the Sun (1961) (Crackle) (Criterion)
Within our Gates (Prime)
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Comedy
Barbershop (Starz/Amazon)
Barbershop II (Starz/Amazon)
Beauty Shop (Starz/Amazon)
Def Comedy Jam 25 (Netflix)
Eddie Murphy: Delirious (Netflix)
Eddie Murphy: Raw (Showtime/Amazon)
First Sunday (Direct TV) (Fubo)
House Party (Showtime/Amazon)
Life (Direct TV) (MaxGo) (Cinemax/Amazon)
Major Payne (Starz/Amazon)
Next Day Air (Hoopla)
Night School (Direct TV) (HBONow) (MAXGo) (Cinemax/Amazon)
Nobody’s Fool (Hulu)
The Nutty Professor (Direct TV) (MaxGo) (Cinemax/Amazon)
Original Kings of Comedy (Prime)
Soul Plane (Starz/Amazon)
Snow Dogs (Disney +)
Support the Girls (Hulu)
Uncle Drew (Direct TV) (HBONow) (MAXGo) (Cinemax/Amazon)
What Men Want (Hulu)
Dirty South
Down in the Delta (Hulu)
A Soldier’s Story (Crackle)
Documentary
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4 Little Girls (Prime)
13th (Netflix)
The Black Panthers (Criterion)
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (Netflix)
Good Hair (Hoopla) (Vudu)
I Am Not Your Negro (Prime) (Tubi)
The Central Park Five (Prime)
The Gospel According to Andre (Hulu)
Kiki (Hulu)
The Loving Story (Direct TV) (HBONow) (HBO/Amazon) (HBOGo) (Hoopla) (Tubi) (Vudu)
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (Netflix) (Hoopla) (Kanopy)
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (Prime)
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (Prime)
Paris is Burning (Netflix)
Rize (IMDB TV) (Pluto TV) (Tubi) (Vudu)
What Happened Miss Simone? (Netflix)
When the Levees Broke (Direct TV) (HBONow) (HBO/Amazon) (HBOGo)
Girl Power
The Color Purple (Fubo)
For Colored Girls (Hulu)
The Help (Showtime/Amazon)
Juanita (Netflix)
Secret Life of Bees (Starz/Amazon)
Waiting to Exhale (Starz/Amazon)
Women of Brewster Place (Vudu)
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Hood Tales
Above the Rim (BET+/Amazon)
All About the Benjamins (BET+/Amazon)
American Violet (Hoopla)
Baby Boy (BET+/Amazon) (Fubo)
Boyz in the Hood (Showtime/Amazon)
Canal Street (Hoopla) (Sling)
Clockers (Starz/Amazon)
Crooklyn (Starz/Amazon)
Dead Presidents (Showtime/Amazon)
Do the Right Thing (Starz/Amazon)
First Match (Netflix)
Fresh (Hoopla)
He Got Game (Showtime/Amazon)
Hot Boyz (Hoopla) (Tubi) (Vudu)
Hustle & Flow (CBS/Amazon) (Prime)
Kings (Netflix)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Prime)
Menace to Society (Hulu)
Monsters and Men (Hulu)
Native Son (Direct TV) (HBONow) (HBO/Amazon) (HBOGo)
New Jersey Drive (Starz/Amazon)
Night Comes On (Prime)
Paid in Full (Hoopla) (Netflix)
Precious (Prime)
Snow on tha Bluff (Hoopla) (Popcorn Flix) (Roku)
State Property (Hoopla) (Tubi) (Vudu)
Waist Deep(Starz/Amazon)
Horror/Thriller
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Acrimony (Hulu)
Candyman (Netflix)
Get Out (FXNow)
The Intruder (Starz/Amazon)
The Perfect Guy (FXNow)
Tales from the Hood (Starz/Amazon)
Us (Direct TV) (HBONow) (HBO/Amazon) (HBOGo)
Vampire in Brooklyn (Direct TV) (HBONow) (HBO/Amazon) (HBOGo)
Illness
Life Support (Direct TV) (HBONow) (HBO/Amazon) (HBOGo)
Nightingale (Direct TV) (HBONow) (HBO/Amazon) (HBOGo)
LGBTQI
Holiday Heart (Prime)
Moonlight (Kanopy) (Netflix)
Pariah (Starz/Amazon)
Tangerine (Hulu)
Musicals
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Been So Long (Netflix)
Dreamgirls (Fubo) (Sling)
The Fighting Temptations (Showtime) (Showtime/Amazon)
The Five Heartbeats (Direct TV) (Starz) (Starz/Amazon)
Princess and the Frog (Disney +)
Purple Rain (Netflix)
School Daze (Crackle)
The Wiz (Direct TV) (Starz) (Starz/Amazon)
Old Gangstas
Cotton Club (Mubi/Amazon)
Devil in Blue Dress (CBS/Amazon) (Starz/Amazon)
Rage in Harlem (Kanopy) (Pluto TV) (Tubi) (Vudu)
Sugar Hill (Popcorn Flix)
Rom-Com
About Last Night (Fubo) (FXNow)
Booty Call (BET+/Amazon) (Crackle)
Deliver Us From Eva (Direct TV) (HBONow) (HBO/Amazon) (HBOGo)
Nappily Ever After (Netflix)
What Men Want (Hulu) (Prime)
Romance Drama
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The Best Man (Starz/Amazon
Best Man Holiday (Direct TV)
The Brothers (CBS/Amazon) (Showtime/Amazon)
Brown Sugar (Direct TV)
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Direct TV) (MaxGo) (Cinemax/Amazon)
Jason’s Lyric (Prime)
The Photograph (In Theaters 2/14)
Poetic Justice (Showtime/Amazon)
Think Like a Man Too (Direct TV) (FXNow)
Why Did I Get Married? (Showtime/Amazon)
Why Did I Get Married Too? (Hulu) (Prime)
Satire
CB4 (Direct TV) (MaxGo) (Cinemax/Amazon)
Chiraq (Prime)
Don’t Be Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (Starz/Amazon)
Hollywood Shuffle (Prime)
I’m Gonna Get You Sucka (Starz/Amazon)
Sorry to Bother You (Hulu)
Supernatural/Syfy/Fantasy
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Beloved (Showtime/Amazon)
Blade (BET+)
Blade II (Showtime)
Black Panther (Netflix)
Eve’s Bayou (Direct TV) (MaxGo) (Cinemax/Amazon)
Fast Color (Hulu) (Prime)
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (Prime)
A Wrinkle in Time (Netflix)
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