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10 Best Movies Like Rustin

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

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#1
All the Way

All the Way

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rustin for fans of Drama & 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...

#2
The Trial of the Chicago 7

The Trial of the Chicago 7

2020★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rustin for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history....

#3
Get on the Bus

Get on the Bus

1996★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rustin for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fifteen Black men gather in South Central LA to take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in October 1995. Among the attendees are an eclectic...

#4
Selma

Selma

2014★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rustin for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. John...

#5
Son of the South

Son of the South

2021★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rustin 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...

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Stonewall

Stonewall

2015★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rustin for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York's Greenwich Village, where growing discrimination against the gay community leads to riots on June ...

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