Here’s a list of every Black film streaming online right now

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(Image source: Twitter / @BealeStreet Official Twitter Account)

As the world continues to stay indoors due to the spread of the Coronavirus, streaming platforms are booming. In addition to new content on Netflix, Hulu, and Prime Video, older projects are getting new streams. The growing list, originally compiled by Naima Cochrane, contains hours of digital content to survive the quarantine.

For those looking to revisit old films featuring Black actors and actresses, here is a comprehensive list of what’s out there.


Naima Cochrane; Twitter – @naima.

On Prime Video (film):



The Best Man
Crooklyn
Don’t Be a Menace
The Five Heartbeats
Girl 6
Hollywood Shuffle
I’m Gonna Get You Sucka
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Marshall
Mo Betta Blues
Soul Food
The Golden Child
The Wiz
.

Documentaries:
“When The Levees Broke”
I Am Not Your Negro
Hale Country, This Morning This Evening
The Central Park Five
No No: A Dockumentary
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
4 Little Girls
Unseen

On Hulu (Films:)
American Gangster
Barbershop
Bessie
The Brothers
For Colored Girls
Eve’s Bayou
Hitch
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Miss Evers’ Boys
Precious
Sorry to Bother You
Waiting to Exhale
What Men Want

Documentaries:
Amazing Grace: Aretha Franklin
Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean Michel Basquiat
Grace Jones: Bloodlight #Bami
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Whitney
Whose Streets?

On Netflix
Ali
Bad Boys II
Dolemite is My Name
Eddie Murphy: Delirious
Harlem Nights
Kings of Comedy
Martin: Run Tell That

Moonlight
Mo Money
Mudbound
Paid in Full
Purple Rain
She’s Gotta Have It
Mudbound

Documentaries:
The Black Godfather
The Two Killings Sam Cooke
Quincy
What Happened, Miss Simone?
20 Ft From Stardom
Miles Davis: The Birth of Cool
13th
Paris is Burning
Homecoming
Strong Island
I Called Him Morgan
The Negro Soldier (1944)

New Series:
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker

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