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10 Best Movies Like Black and White: Uptight

If you loved Black and White: Uptight, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

2019★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Black and White: Uptight for fans of Documentary & History. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In 1936, Victor H. Green (1892-1960) published The Negro Motorist Green Book, a book that was both a travel guide and a survival manual, to help African-Americans navigate safe tho...

#2
Rustin

Rustin

2023★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Black and White: Uptight for fans of History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington....

#3
I Am Not Your Negro

I Am Not Your Negro

2017★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Black and White: Uptight for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States....

#4
The Long Walk Home

The Long Walk Home

1990★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Black and White: Uptight for fans of History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King....

#5
Son of the South

Son of the South

2021★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Black and White: Uptight for fans of History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In civil rights era Montgomery, Alabama, Klansman's grandson Bob Zellner must choose which side of history to be on during the Movement. Defying his family and white Southern norms...

#6
All the Way

All the Way

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Black and White: Uptight for fans of History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, cu...

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