The 25 Most Important Films on Race
In honor of Black History Month, TIME critic Richard Corliss surveys nearly a century of cinema, and reflects on 25 defining works that broke down the walls of intolerance on the big screen
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- Body and Soul (1925)
- Hallelujah! (1929)
- Judge Priest (1934)
- Imitation of Life (1934)
- God's Step Children (1938)
- The Duke Is Tops (1938)
- Gone With the Wind (1939)
- The Blood of Jesus (1941)
- The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
- Native Son (1951)
- Carmen Jones (1954)
- The Defiant Ones (1958)
- In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song (1971)
- Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
- Cooley High (1975)
- Killer of Sheep (1977)
- Richard Pryor Live in Concert (1979)
- A Soldier's Story (1984)
- Do the Right Thing (1989)
- Boyz N the Hood (1991)
- Eve's Bayou (1997)
- Bamboozled (2000)
- Madea's Family Reunion (2002)
- I Am Legend (2007)
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