Storytelling is a proven method in allowing someone to experience a reality that’s different than their own. Film and tv has a unique opportunity to educate us about topics that may be hard to digest. In this episode, Why Watch That shares movies and tv shows that help you connect with the black experience if you are interesting in understanding what racial inequality is all about from a historical and modern perspective.

Black Ed: A Crash Course in Living While Black through Movies & TV Shows

FILMS

• Selma
• 12 Years a Slave
• Lean on Me
• Do the Right Thing
• Crash
• The Great Debaters
• Fruitvale Station
• Mudbound
• Dear White People
• Malcolm X
• A Time to Kill
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Get Out
• The Hate U Give
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• Django Unchained
• Boyz n the Hood
• House Party
• Mississippi Burning
• In the Heat of the Night
• Network
• Snowpiercer
• Bamboozled
• Just Mercy
• When They See Us

TV SHOWS

• A Different World
• Watchmen
• The Night Of
• American Crime Story: The People vs O.J. Simpson
• Wu-Tang: An American Saga
• Atlanta
• The Good Fight
• Rectify
• Roots
• Finding Your Roots

DOCUMENTARIES

• 13th
• I Am Not Your Negro
• 4 Little Girls
• When the Levees Broke