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10 Best Movies Like James Baldwin: From Another Place

If you loved James Baldwin: From Another Place, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Kedi

Kedi

2017★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to James Baldwin: From Another Place for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A profile of Istanbul and its unique people, seen through the eyes of the most mysterious and beloved animal humans have ever known, the Cat....

#2
Welcome to Chechnya

Welcome to Chechnya

2020★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to James Baldwin: From Another Place for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian repub...

#3
I Am Not Your Negro

I Am Not Your Negro

2017★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to James Baldwin: From Another Place 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
Overnight

Overnight

2003★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to James Baldwin: From Another Place for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches story as Troy Duffy, a Boston-bred...

#5
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster

Drew: The Man Behind the Poster

2013★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to James Baldwin: From Another Place for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A documentary on legendary movie-poster artist Drew Struzan....

#6
Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap

Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap

2012★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to James Baldwin: From Another Place for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP is a feature length performance documentary about the runaway juggernaut that is Rap music. At the wheel of this unstoppable beast is the fil...

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