15. Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
After being arrested at a routine traffic stop, activist Sandra Bland was taken into custody and found hanging in her jail cell three days later. Immediately after her death, filmmakers Kate Davis and David Heilbroner reached out to Bland ‘s relatives, asking them to document their effort to discover the truth about what had happened. This documentary is a powerful compilation of a two-year search for the truth.
16. Malcolm X
Another film by Spike Lee, Malcolm X, is a biographical film about a prominent civil rights figure.
