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10 Best Movies Like Black and White: Uptight

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

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#1
I Am Not Your Negro

I Am Not Your Negro

2017★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Black and White: Uptight 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....

#2
Best of Enemies

Best of Enemies

2015★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Black and White: Uptight for fans of Documentary & History. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buck...

#3
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

2019★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Black and White: Uptight for fans of Documentary & History. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In 1936, Victor H. Green (1892-1960) published The Negro Motorist Green Book, a book that was both a travel guide and a survival manual, to help African-Americans navigate safe tho...

#4
13th

13th

2016★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Black and White: Uptight for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality....

#5
4 Little Girls

4 Little Girls

1997★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Black and White: Uptight for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the nation--an...

#6
O.J.: Made in America

O.J.: Made in America

2016★ 8.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Black and White: Uptight for fans of Documentary & History. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation....

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