Top 25 African-American Films of All Time

By Ralph Richardson

While I was organizing and agonizing over this very important list of Top 25 African- American films of all time, I used some parameters to guide me. First, what is an African- American movie? It has to be:

a movie about the black experience;

and/or a movie that is written, produced and/or directed by black people;

and/or it has to be a movie with a black person in the lead role.

Secondly, what criteria would I use to select and rate each film? The barometers I used were cultural influence, internet polling, and box office revenue, spiced up with a dash of my own personal bias.