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10 Best Movies Like How I Became a Negro

If you loved How I Became a Negro, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Waiting for Anya

Waiting for Anya

2020★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Became a Negro for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain....

#2
Battleground

Battleground

1949★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Became a Negro for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatri...

#3
Hands of Stone

Hands of Stone

2016★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Became a Negro for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives....

#4
The Lords of Discipline

The Lords of Discipline

1983★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Became a Negro for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep a...

#5
The Fox

The Fox

2023★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Became a Negro for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

At the dawn of World War II, a young motorcycle courier in the Austrian army encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. The soldier and the fox develop ...

#6
Wolf Hound

Wolf Hound

2022★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Became a Negro for fans of War. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Inspired by the real-life German special operations unit KG 200 that shot down, repaired, and flew Allied aircraft as Trojan horses, "Wolf Hound" takes place in 1944 German-occupie...

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