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Cult Classics
Bio-Pics
100

Jordan Peele's Oscar-winning film was an instant horror classic.

What is Get Out?

100

Say his name 3 times and you'll wind up dead.  

Who is Candyman?

100
This film film starred Will Smith as a romance coach.

What is Hitch?

100

This film is the origin of the ubiquitous phrase "Bye Felicia"

What is Friday?

100

Chadwick Boseman played James Brown in this movie.

What is Get On Up?

200

For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar.

Who is Hattie McDaniel?

200

The 1968 horror classic, directed by George A. Romero, follows a group of seven who are trapped in a remote farm house that's under the attack of undead corpses. With Duane Jones as the lead actor, the film is groundbreaking for its positive and heroic portrayal of a Black man in a role that wasn't centered around his race.

What is Night of the Living Dead?

200

This cult classic follows two rising basketball stars who find their way back to each other.

What is Love and Basketball?

200

This film featured Disney's first Black Princess.

What is Princess and the Frog?

200

Denzel Washington won acclaim playing this Civil Rights Activist.

Who is Malcolm X?

300

This Marvel film starring Chadwick Boseman won the award for best costume design.  The first time an African American won in this category.

What is Black Panther?

300

This film brought Marvel's famous vampire hunter to the big screen.

What is Blade?

300

Taye Diggs plays a writer who pens a revealing novel based off of the lives of his best friends. But when he serves as the best man at his friend's wedding, he fights to keep the book under wraps in this film.

What is The Best Man?

300

An African prince travels to Transylvania where he's bitten by Dracula himself. He's sealed in a coffin for hundreds of years, only to awaken in 1970s L.A.

What is Blackula?

300

O'Shea Jackson Jr. played his father Ice Cube in this film based on the rise of rap group N.W.A.

What is Straight Out of Compton?

400

John Singleton was the first African American to be nominated for Best Director and youngest person ever nominated in this category (age 24) for this movie.

What is Boyz n the Hood?

400

Executive-produced by Spike Lee, this cult-hit tells four stories based on issues that impacted Black communities during the 90s, including police violence and system racism.

What is Tales from the Hood?

400

Mahershala Ali won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for this film with less than 20 minutes of screen time.

What is Moonlight?

400

This movie stars Eddie Murphy as Prince Akeem who travels to Queens, New York to find a bae unaware of his royal title..

What is Coming to America?

400

The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

What is Hidden Figures?

500

The star of Training Day is the first and only African-American actor to win Academy Awards in both acting categories (lead and supporting).

Who is Denzel Washington?

500

Directed by Wes Craven, this film is a horror-comedy about three burglars who break into a home, only to discover the owners have kidnapped children and kept them locked in their basement.

What is The People Under the Stairs?

500

Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur co-star in this film about poet and hairdresser, who begins to fall for an aspiring musician while on a cross-country road trip.

What is Poetic Justice?

500

This remake starred Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy and Eddie Murphy.

What is The Nutty Professor?

500

This movie based on the true story of African American coach Herman Boone  as he tries to introduce a racially diverse team at the T. C. Williams High School in the Northern Virginia city of Alexandria in 1971.

What is Remember the Titans?

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