#6. I Am Not Your Negro (2016)

- Director: Raoul Peck

- Metascore: 95

- IMDb user rating: 7.9

- Runtime: 93 minutes

Raoul Peck’s documentary explores the history of systemic anti-Blackness in America by using passages from James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript, “Remember This House.” Samuel L. Jackson narrated the film, which also spotlights Baldwin’s friendships with civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

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