Live Poll: Black History Movies

Thanks for the suggestions. 'The Help' is not based on a true story, though.

not a real movie, but...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12816696/

I was thinking about suggesting this one too. It may be partly fictional, but the situation and the people are real.

The situation is real? The four of them actually met as a group?

Oh wow, I just looked it up and they did actually meet. That makes me like the film even less than I did when I thought it was completely fictionalized. I knew that Ali and Malcolm X had a relationship but I had no idea that the four of them were friends. I'll add it.

Thanks for the suggestion!

...Yikes, if I can decide on what to remove, which so far has been exceedingly difficult. I'm asking the questions what was less consequential and what is under-represented or over-represented.

Why didn't you like it?

I recently watched Ali, and it also has a small scene with the four characters meeting at the start of the film.

I wouldn't say that I didn't like it at all but I just didn't like it nearly as much as I was expecting that I would. I thought it descended into cliches and easy answers at times and also relied on binaries too much, especially with its portrayal of Sam Cooke and the relationship between Cooke and Malcolm X. I just thought that there was a lack of nuance and I didn't feel like it challenged me at all, which, among other things, made it feel rather dull to me.  I think I'll watch it again, though, and maybe see things in it that I didn't see the first time. I respect Regina King a lot and think that she's a great actor who makes great choices in the roles that she takes so perhaps I need to take a second look. I suspect that she saw something in the script that I'm missing. 

That, by the way, has little to nothing to do with why I haven't found a place for it on the list yet. 

What did you think about it?

It was good, but not among my favorites. It was mostly informative rather than challenging to Me, I didn't knew Sam Cooke or Jim Brown before watching the movie, so as someone from another country it was esentially interesting to learn new pieces of history from the US.

I don't think it stands to the greatest movies about black history, but it is worth watching and a good nominee for the awards. But I don't think it should be the winner.