10 Best Movies Like Harriet
If you loved Harriet, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
The Birth of a Nation
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Harriet for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites....
Oranges and Sunshine
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Harriet for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from t...
Band of Angels
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Harriet for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools...
12 Years a Slave
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Harriet for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solo...
Son of the South
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Harriet for fans of Drama & 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...
Respect
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Harriet for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom....