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1. The Butler (I) (2013)
PG-13 | 132 min | Biography, Drama
As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.
Director: Lee Daniels | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda
Votes: 119,774 | Gross: $116.63M
2. Ali (2001)
R | 157 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles
Votes: 105,609 | Gross: $58.20M
3. Respect (2021)
PG-13 | 145 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, RESPECT is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.
Director: Liesl Tommy | Stars: Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Tituss Burgess
Votes: 17,857
4. The Sapphires (2012)
PG-13 | 103 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In 1968, four talented young Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship, and war when their all-girl group The Sapphires entertains the US troops in Vietnam.
Director: Wayne Blair | Stars: Chris O'Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens
Votes: 15,182 | Gross: $2.45M
5. What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)
Not Rated | 101 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist labeled the "High Priestess of Soul."
Director: Liz Garbus | Stars: Nina Simone, Lisa Simone Kelly, Roger Nupie, Al Schackman
Votes: 14,839
6. Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (2022)
90 min | Documentary
It tells the story of the courageous campaign of citizens and activists who faced violence and oppression in the struggle for the right to vote
Directors: Geeta Gandbhir, Sam Pollard | Stars: Ella Baker, Stokely Carmichael, Courtland Cox, Mukasa Dada
Votes: 158
7. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, History
Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States is edited together by a contemporary Swedish filmmaker.
Director: Göran Hugo Olsson | Stars: Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Abiodun Oyewole
Votes: 2,498 | Gross: $0.26M
8. Sir! No Sir! (2005)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, History, War
NO! SIR! tells an almost entirely forgotten story of the military men and women who forced the U.S. government to end the Vietnam War
Director: David Zeiger | Stars: Michael Alaimo, Edward Asner, Joe Bangert, Tom Bernard
Votes: 838 | Gross: $0.11M
9. Evidence of Revision: The Assassination of America (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 630 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Stars: Madeleine Brown, Thane Eugene Cesar, John Connally, Roger D. Craig
Votes: 35
10. Sing Your Song (2011)
Not Rated | 103 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer. This film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice globally.
Director: Susanne Rostock | Stars: Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Marge Champion, Fran Scott Attaway
Votes: 502 | Gross: $0.05M
11. Black Power: A British Story of Resistance (2021)
89 min | Documentary, History
How the movement came into being in the late 1960s, when it fought back against police brutality and racism.
Director: George Amponsah | Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, James Baldwin
Votes: 149
12. The Trial of James Earl Ray (1993 TV Movie)
180 min | Documentary, Biography
James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, is given a mock trial in this courtroom drama.
Stars: Earl Caldwell, W. Hickman Ewing, Marvin E. Frankel, Charlayne Hunter-Gault
13. 68 (2008 TV Movie)
110 min | Documentary, History, War
From Washington to Saigon, Rome to Mexico, Paris to London, a wave of demonstrations shakes the world. 68 travels back in time to war torn Vietnam, freed and occupied Prague, Paris demonstrating, revolution in the Americas.
Director: Patrick Rotman | Stars: Edouard Balladur, The Beatles, Claude Berri, Leonid Brezhnev
Votes: 66
14. We Have A Dream (2016)
18 min | Short
"There is something that I must say to my people...This is Our Hope!" (Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 28 August 1963). During the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, leaders within the American ... See full summary »
Director: Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham | Stars: Menachem Begin, David Ben-Gurion, Eugene Carson Blake, Eva Jessye Choir
15.
Dragnet 1967 (1967–1970)
Episode:
Management Services: DR-11
(1968)
TV-G | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
On an April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennesee. With riots erupting all over the United States, the Los Angeles Police Department braces for worse case ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Webb | Stars: Jack Webb, Harry Morgan, Art Balinger, Ed Deemer
Votes: 127
16.
The Jeffersons (1975–1985)
Episode:
The First Store
(1980)
TV-14 | 25 min | Comedy
Flashback of the Jeffersons before moving to Hauser Street. George is determined to open his own dry cleaners, but is at odds with both his banker's racist attitudes and Lionel's militancy. He and Louise encourage Dr. King's nonviolence.
Director: Bob Lally | Stars: Isabel Sanford, Sherman Hemsley, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover
Votes: 106
17.
The Twilight Zone (2002–2003)
Episode:
Memphis
(2003)
TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A terminally ill man is thrust back in time and given the opportunity to stop the assassination of Martin Luther King.
Director: Eriq La Salle | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Eriq La Salle, Jascha Washington, Vivica A. Fox
Votes: 367
18.
The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness (2021)
Episode:
Hello from the Gutters
(2021)
TV-MA | 58 min | Documentary, Crime, History
In August 1977, the arrest of David Berkowitz ended New York City's wave of terror. But journalist Maury Terry believed there was more to the story.
Director: Joshua Zeman | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Maury Terry, David Berkowitz, Robert MacNeil
Votes: 693
19.
First Ladies (2020)
Episode:
Lady Bird Johnson
(2020)
Not Rated | 41 min | Documentary, Biography
The Johnson administration enacted the Civil Rights Act, one of the most prolific legislative programs in U.S. history--but it likely wouldn't have succeeded without Lady Bird Johnson's ... See full summary »
Director: Kim Duke | Stars: Robin Wright, Kati Marton, Mark K. Updegrove, Luci Baines Johnson
Votes: 39
20.
America's Book of Secrets (2012–2021)
Episode:
FBI vs. MLK
(2021)
TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary
In 1962, J. Edgar Hoover ordered "his bureau" to investigate Martin Luther King Jr. and soon discovered that King was associated with something he considered far more dangerous than peaceful protests: Communism.
Stars: Lance Reddick, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Keith Rice, Ben Kamin
Votes: 15
21.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Roads to Memphis
(2010)
TV-PG | 80 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This film tells the story of an assassin, James Earl Ray, his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the seething, turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Ives | Stars: Daniel Amigone, Robert Byrd, John Campbell, Ramsey Clark
Votes: 126
22.
Dark Docs (2020– )
Episode:
When Only 600 Marines Fought, the Enemy Never Expected This
(2023)
11 min | Documentary, History
Following the Tet Offensive in 1968 a Division or the North Vietnamese Army invaded the Dong Ha Sector which would be a major blow to the US supply network. A force of just 600 Marines ... See full summary »
23.
Mad Men (2007–2015)
Episode:
The Flood
(2013)
TV-14 | 48 min | Drama
Set among the events surrounding Martin Luther King's assassination, Peggy tries to get a new apartment, Ginsberg is set up on a date, and Don has a revelation during his weekend with the kids.
Director: Chris Manley | Stars: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones
Votes: 2,316
24.
America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes (2010– )
Episode:
9-6
(2010)
Documentary, Crime, History
We reach the top 10 in our countdown of America's greatest unsolved mysteries including the assassination of Martin Luther King, a witch hunt in Salem, and the missing minutes of Nixon's tapes.
Director: Ron Meyer | Stars: Troy Taylor, Michael Newton, Rick Beyer, Paul Aron
25.
Myth of the Zodiac Killer (2023)
Episode:
The Hoax Theory
(2023)
TV-14 | 60 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery
An English professor lays out a stirring hoax theory on America's most famous cold case, launching filmmaker Andrew Nock on a journey into the world of "The Zodiac"; victims' family members talk on camera for the first time.
Director: Andrew Nock | Stars: Drew Beeson, Pierre Bidou, Michael Butterfield, Florian Cafiero
Votes: 25
26.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Busing Battleground
(2023)
TV-PG | 113 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Court-mandated social integration unleashes racial unrest throughout Boston in the 1970s as Black and White students are bussed together.
Directors: Sharon Grimberg, Cyndee Readdean | Stars: Henry Allen, Thomas Atkins, Ruth M. Batson, Tomika Brown
Votes: 48
27.
The 100 Days: That Defined Modern History (2022–2023)
Episode:
The Assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy - 1968
(2023)
Documentary, History
In 1968, both Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated.
Directors: Edmund Duff, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Peter B. Levy, Clay Risen, Clayborne Carson, Meena Bose
Votes: 5
28.
Days of Revolt (2015–2016)
Episode:
The Black Prophetic Tradition
(2015)
News, Talk-Show
Stars: Chris Hedges, Cornel West
29.
The Vietnam War (2017)
Episode:
Things Fall Apart (January-June 1968)
(2017)
TV-MA | 84 min | Documentary, History, War
Shaken by the violence of the Tet Offensive, assassinations of leaders and domestic unrest, Americans begin to doubt President Lyndon B. Johnson's promise that victory in Vietnam is near and he ultimately decides not to seek reelection.
Directors: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Ron Ferrizzi, Warren Rogers, William C. Westmoreland
Votes: 764
30.
American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)
Episode:
The Legend of Camelot
(2018)
42 min | Documentary, History
Numbed by grief after the assassination of her husband, Jackie crafts JFK's legacy, while Bobby becomes a champion of the dispossessed and the family's next great political hope.
Director: Jonathan Jones | Stars: Martin Sheen, Sally Bedell Smith, Richard Mahoney, Kate Andersen Brower
Votes: 53
31.
1968: The Year That Changed America (2018)
Episode:
Part Two: Spring
(2018)
TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, History
The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy's pursuit of the Democratic nomination.
Stars: Peniel E. Joseph, Yohuru Williams, Jesse Jackson, Taylor Branch
Votes: 33
32.
Tricky Dick (2019)
Episode:
Nixon's the One
(2019)
Not Rated | Documentary, Biography, History
Following political defeats in 1960 and 1962, Richard Nixon emerges at the height of the turbulent 1960s as the Republican Party's nominee for President in 1968.
Director: Mary Robertson | Stars: Richard Nixon, Roger Ailes, Walter Cronkite, Hubert H. Humphrey
Votes: 29