30 Movies And Documentaries About Race You Need to See If You Haven’t Yet

19. The Big Sick

The Big Sick is another film that’s not about race, but about family and South Asian immigrant experience in the post-9/11 world. The film does a better job of highlighting the kind of micro-aggressions and racial stereotyping that are easily dismissed as benign.

20. In The Heat Of The Night

1967 classic In the Heat of the Night stars Sidney Poitier, the first black man to win Best Actor Oscar, as a police detective to go to a racist town to solve the murder.