25 powerful movies to stream in honor of Black History Month from 'Da 5

Since George Floyd’s death last May and the Black Lives Matter protests that resulted, there has been a new emphasis on celebrating Black art and voices in America. Many films by Black filmmakers and about Black stories have come out in the aftermath, primarily streaming or on demand in the wake of COVID but available to a larger audience. Some are playing big in the current awards season, some are smaller movies worth a watch. Some are documentaries that take a truthful look at systemic racism in this country. Some are very serious, others are pretty funny, a few are terrifying and most have something important to say. And while they’re not all about Black history, each finds a way to amplify Black voices in a significant way. Here are 25 recent movies well worth seeing during Black History Month:Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in the 2020 election, is the central subject of the doc chronicling the history of voter suppression in this country. Janelle Monae plays both an enslaved woman on a Confederate plantation and also a successful sociologist in a twisty thriller tackling the echoes of America’s original sin. Director Justin Simien’s 1989-set horror satire stars Elle Lorraine as an aspiring VJ who’s told her natural hair won’t help her career prospects but a new weave becomes an instrument of murderous magic. Thanks to archived interviews done by late biographer Linda Lipnack Kuehl, Billie Holiday’s life and work comes alive in a documentary that looks at the legendary jazz singer’s cultural impact as well as her many vices. Mamoudou Athie stars in Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour’s sci-fi horror film as a young man stricken with amnesia after a tragic accident who struggles with his identity when he signs up for an experimental memory treatment. The coming-of-age drama centers on a teenage boy (Jahi Di’Allo Winston) who wants to take after his late brother and join the same infamous crew of Baltimore dirt-bike riders, worrying his mom (Teyonah Parris). Spike Lee’s Screen Actors Guild-nominated war film features four aging Black veterans (including Delroy Lindo) who return to Vietnam to recover lost treasure and the remains of their late squad leader (Chadwick Boseman). Writer/director Radha Blank also stars in her semi-autobiographical comedy about a New York playwright who, after struggling to break into the theater scene, decides to reinvent herself as a rapper.Ṣọpẹ Dìrísù and Wunmi Mosaku star in writer/director Remi Weekes’ chiller as Sudanese refugees seeking asylum in England who discover old horrors reside in the walls of their new place. Meagan Good co-directs with Tamara Bass and stars as a mom forced to go to rehab and lean on her childhood friends (Bass, Mekia Cox and Meagan Holder) to take care of her teen daughter (Lexi Underwood).

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