Check out the full list of Black History Movies available on HBO Max.
There is no shortage of Black history movies to stream. You can find:
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So, it’s no surprise that HBO Max would have a great selection available, too.
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If you go to the HBO Max homepage during the month of February, you will see a section called “Black History Is Our History.”
When you click “Browse More,” you are taken to these sections:
- Our Past
- Our Joy
- Our Future, Our Legacy
- Our Present Struggles
- Our Trailblazers
- Our Art
- Our Outstanding Performances
- Our Imagination
Each section includes a list of titles available with thumbnail images.
When you hover over a title, you have the option to “Add” it to your watchlist or Play the title.
You’ll need to find these sections because using the search function and typing in “Black History” won’t yield any results.
20 Black History Movies on HBO Max
Judas and the Black Messiah
Bill O’Neal infiltrates the Black Panther Party per FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Party Chairman Fred Hamptonascends, falling for a fellow revolutionary en route, a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul. Streaming through March 14, 2021. | Stream on HBO Max
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Rob Morgan (Actors)
- Destin Daniel Cretton (Director) - Destin Daniel Cretton (Writer) - Gil Netter (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
Just Mercy
Michael B. Jordan stars as Harvard-educated attorney Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama in the 1980s to defend the poor, and fights to prove the innocence of a death row inmate (Jamie Foxx). Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall and Brie Larson co-star in this inspirational true story. | Stream on HBO Max
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Jeffrey Wright, Terrence Howard, CCH Pounder (Actors)
- Clark Johnson (Director) - Herman Daniel Farrell III (Writer) - Preston L. Holmes (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
Boycott
Fusing scripted scenes with real and recreated footage, this powerful film vividly evokes the tension, energy and excitement of a unique episode in American history: the moment the Civil Rights movement found its leader in Martin Luther King Jr. | Stream on HBO Max
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Spike Lee (Director) - Spike Lee (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
4 Little Girls
Four girls, Addie Mae Collins (age 14, born April 18, 1949); Carol Denise McNair (age 11, born November 17, 1951); Carole Rosanond Robertson (age 14, born April 24, 1949); and Cynthia Dionne Wesley (age 14, born April 30, 1949), were killed in the attack. | Stream on HBO Max
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner (Actors)
- Robert Markowitz (Director) - Paris Qualles (Writer) - William C. Carraro (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
The Tuskegee Airmen
The 99th Pursuit Squadron (later the 99th Fighter Squadron) was the first black flying squadron, and the first to deploy overseas (to North Africa in April 1943, and later to Sicily and Italy). | Stream on HBO Max
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne, Renee Elise Goldsberry (Actors)
- George C. Wolfe (Director) - George C. Wolfe (Writer) - Oprah Winfrey (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Oprah Winfrey stars in the true story of a woman’s search for enlightenment about her mother–whose cancer cells would save millions. | Stream on HBO Max
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Kerry Washington, Wendell Pierce, Greg Kinnear (Actors)
- Rick Famuyiwa (Director)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
Confirmation
Kerry Washington, Wendell Pierce and Greg Kinnear lead a stellar cast in this HBO Films production that pulls back the curtain on the explosive 1991 Supreme Court nomination hearings of Clarence Thomas–a man whose nomination came under fire when a former employee, Anita Hill, accused him of sexual harassment. | Stream on HBO Max
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Angela Bassett (Actors)
- Spike Lee (Director) - Spike Lee (Writer) - Spike Lee (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
MALCOLM X
(PG-13)
It follows the life and times of Malcolm Little through his transformation to Malcolm X and his departure from the Nation of Islam.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ruby Dee (Actors)
- Sidney Lumet (Director)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
KING: A FILMED RECORD… MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS
This is a 1970 American documentary film biography of Martin Luther King Jr. and his creation and leadership of the nonviolent campaign for civil rights and social and economic justice in the Civil Rights Movement. It uses only original newsreel and other primary material, unvarnished and unretouched, and covers the period from the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and 1956 through his assassination in 1968.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Clifford Alexander, Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte (Actors)
- Peter Kunhardt (Director) - Chris Chuang (Writer) - Peter Kunhardt (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
KING IN THE WILDERNESS
King in the Wilderness chronicles the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Denzel Washington, John Hannah, Deborah Kara Unger (Actors)
- Norman Jewison (Director) - Armyan Bernstein (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
The Hurricane
Denzel Washington delivers an Oscar(R)-nominated performance as wrongfully imprisoned boxer Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter in this … of boxer Rubin Carter who was wrongly convicted of a triple murder in New Jersey in 1966, not once but twice! | Stream on HBO Max
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, Craig Sheffer (Actors)
- Joseph Sargent (Director)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
Miss Evers’ Boys
Winner of the 1997 Emmy(R) for Best TV Movie! In the 1930s, U.S. government doctors began a controversial experiment. They withheld treatment from a group of African-American men infected with syphilis in order to study the fatal course of the disease…and they didn’t tell the men what they were doing. | Stream on HBO Max
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Nate Parker, David Oyelowo, Ne-Yo (Actors)
- Anthony Hemingway (Director)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
Red Tails
Trained as ace fighter pilots, but treated like second-class citizens: they became known as the Tuskegee Airmen. | Stream on HBO Max
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- John Lewis, Stacey Abrams, Rep. Colin Allred (Actors)
- Dawn Porter (Director) - Dawn Porter (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE
In her intimate account of legendary U.S. Representative John Lewis’s life and legacy, director Dawn Porter takes us through his more than 60 years of extraordinary activism—from the bold teenager on the front lines of the Civil Rights’ movement to the legislative powerhouse he is today.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Nancy Buirski (Director)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
The Loving Story
Meet the Lovings: an interracial couple who had to go all the way to the Supreme Court to be together. | Stream on HBO Max
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Cicely Tyson, Richard Dysart, Katherine Helmond (Actors)
- John Korty (Director)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Winner of nine Emmy(R) awards, including one for Cicely Tyson’s masterly performance, this superb drama depicts the life of a fictional 110-year-old slave who reflects on her remarkable life—from the Civil War to the civil rights movement. | Stream on HBO Max
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Cynthia Erivo, Jr.,Leslie Odom, Janelle Monae (Actors)
- Kasi Lemmons (Director) - Kasi Lemmons (Writer) - Debra Martin Chase (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
HARRIET
Just released on November 1, 2019, Harriet. Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, HARRIET tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman’s escape from slavery and transformation into one of America’s greatest heroes. | Stream on HBO Max
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
1968
Looking back 50 years to explore 1968, a year marked by seismic shifts in American politics, social movements, global relations and cultural icons that changed the modern landscape. | Stream on HBO Max
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- LeVar Burton, Cicely Tyson, Edward Asner (Actors)
- Not Specified (Producer)
ROOTS
In this remake of the 1970s miniseries based on Alex Haley’s novel, a new generation of actors retraces the roots of American slavery through the saga of Kunta Kinte — a young man taken from a Gambian village and brought to America to serve.
Image: HBO
Ebony: The Last Years Of The Atlantic Slave Trade
Follow the tragic lives of Africans who were sold into slavery in Guinea and transported across the ocean to work under brutal slave owners in the French West Indies in the early 1800s. | Stream on HBO Max
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