Among the most popular movies and television programs with Black focus:

Black Movies
Black Sitcoms
Black Drama
Variety
Mini-Series
Documentaries

Best Black Movies
1. Emperor Jones, The (1933)
2. Show Boat (1936)
3. Song of Freedom (1936)
4. Jericho (1937)
5. Story of Doctor Carver, The (1938)
6. Cabin in the Sky (1943)
7. Stormy Weather (1943)
8. Pinky (1949)
Dorthy Dandridge 9. No Way Out (1950)
10. Jackie Robinson Story, The (1950)
11. Asphalt Jungle, The (1950)
12. Show Boat (1951)
13. Storm Warning (1951)
14. Harlem Globetrotters (1951)
15. Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)
16. Bright Road (1953)
17. Go, Man, Go! (1954)
18. Carmen Jones (1954)
19. Something of Value (1957)
20. Band of Angels (1957)
21. Island in the Sun (1957)
22. St. Louis Blues (1958)
Lena Horn 23. Defiant Ones, The (1958)
24. Porgy and Bess (1959)
25. Paris Blues (1961)
26. Raisin in the Sun, A (1961)
27. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
28. Lilies of the Field (1963)
29. Zulu (1964)
30. Patch of Blue, A (1965)
31. Naked Prey, The (1966)
32. Hurry Sundown (1967)
33. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
34. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
35. To Sir, with Love (1967)
36. Great White Hope, The (1970)
37. They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (1970)
Sidney Portier 38. ...tick...tick...tick... (1970)
39. Shaft (1971)
40. Sounder (1972)
41. Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
42. To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (1972) (TV)
43. Buck and the Preacher (1972)
44. Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
45. Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,The (74-TV)
46. Let's Do It Again (1975)
47. Cooley High (1975)
48. Mahogany (1975)
49. Car Wash (1976)
50. Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, The (1976)
51. River Niger, The (1976)
52. Just an Old Sweet Song (1976) (TV)
53. Lawman Without a Gun (1977) (TV)
54. Greatest, The (1977)
Cicely Tyson 55. Scott Joplin (1977)
56. Which Way Is Up? (1977)
57. Wiz, The (1978/I)
58. Woman Called Moses, A (1978) (TV)
59. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979) (TV)
60. Freedom Road (1979) (TV)
61. Undercover with the KKK (1979) (TV)
62. Stir Crazy (1980)
63. Bustin' Loose (1981)
64. Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige (1981) (TV)
65. Sister, Sister (1982) (TV)
66. Trading Places (1983)
67. For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (83-TV)
68. Cotton Club, The (1984)
69. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
70. Soldier's Story, A (1984)
71. Go Tell It On the Mountain (1984) (TV)
72. Jesse Owens Story, The (1984) (TV)
73. Brewster's Millions (1985)
74. Color Purple, The (1985)
Eddie Murphy 75. Native Son (1986)
76. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987) (TV)
77. Mandela (1987) (TV)
78. Cry Freedom (1987)
79. Mississippi Burning (1988)
80. Coming to America (1988)
81. Harlem Nights (1989)
82. Polly (1989) (TV)
83. Raisin in the Sun, A (1989) (TV)
84. Unconquered (1989) (TV)
85. Glory (1989)
86. Women of Brewster Place, The (1989) (TV)
87. Lean on Me (1989)
88. Mo' Better Blues (1990)
89. Common Ground (1990) (TV)
Ice Cube 90. Mississippi Masala (1991)
91. Perfect Harmony (1991) (TV)
92. Separate But Equal (1991) (TV)
93. Rage in Harlem, A (1991)
94. Boyz N the Hood (1991)
95. Sarafina! (1992)
96. Distinguished Gentleman, The (1992)
97. Malcolm X (1992)
98. Jacksons: An American Dream, The (1992) (TV)
99. Stompin' at the Savoy (1992) (TV)
100. What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
101. Porgy and Bess (1993) (TV)
102. Ernest Green Story, The (1993) (TV)
103. Vernon Johns Story, The (1994) (TV)
104. Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad (94-TV)
105. Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
106. Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
107. Tuskegee Airmen, The (1995) (TV)
108. White Man's Burden (1995)
Morgan Freeman 109. Waiting to Exhale (1995)
110. Solomon & Sheba (1995) (TV)
111. Father for Charlie, A (1995) (TV)
112. Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
113. Once Upon a Time..When We Were Colored (96)
114. Captive Heart: The James Mink Story (1996) (TV)
115. Family Thing, A (1996)
116. Preacher's Wife, The (1996)
117. Nutty Professor, The (1996)
118. Road to Galveston (1996) (TV)
119. Nightjohn (1996) (TV)
120. Mandela (1996)
121. Amistad (1997)
122. Mandela and de Klerk (1997) (TV)
123. Buffalo Soldiers (1997) (TV)
124. Cinderella (1997) (TV)
125. Soul Food (1997)
126. In His Father's Shoes (1997) (TV)
127. He Got Game (1998) Teresa Randal 128. How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
129. Beloved (1998)
130. Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1998)
131. Mama Flora's Family (1998) (TV)
132. American Hero: The Michael Jordan Story (98-TV)
133. Tiger Woods Story, The (1998) (TV)
134. Selma, Lord, Selma (1999) (TV)
135. Hurricane, The (1999)
136. Double Platinum (1999) (TV)
137. Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) (TV)
138. Our Friend, Martin (1999) (tV)
139. Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999) (TV)
140. Dear America: A Picture of Freedom (1999) (TV)
141. Freedom Song (2000) (TV)
142. Remember the Titans (2000)
143. Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story (2000)(TV)
144. Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000) (TV)
145. Color of Love: Jacey's Story, The (2000) (TV)
146. Shaft (2000)
147. Color of Friendship, The (2000) (TV)
148. Seventeen Again (2000)
149. Boycott (2001) (TV) Angela Basset 150. Brothers, The (2001/I)
151. Bojangles (2001) (TV)
152. Rosa Parks (2002) (TV)
153. Like Mike (2002)
154. Brown Sugar (2002)

Black TV Shows
Sitcoms
1. Sanford and Son (1972)
2. Good Times (1974)
3. The Jeffersons (1975)
4. What's Happening!! (1976)
5. Benson (1979)
Sanford 6. Cosby Show, The (1984)
7. Different World, A (1987)
8. Frank's Place (1987)
9. Family Matters (1989)
10. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The (1990)
11. Roc (1991)
12. Martin (1992)
13. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper (1992)
14. Living Single (1993)
15. Sister, Sister (1994)
16. Parent 'Hood, The (1995)
Cosby Show 17. Wayans Bros., The (1995)
18. In the House (1995)
19. Moesha (1996)
20. Cosby (1996)
21. Smart Guy (1997)
22. Famous Jett Jackson, The (1998)
23. Hughleys, The (1998)
24. My Wife and Kids (2001)
25. Bernie Mac Show, The (2001)

Black Drama
1. Julia (1968)
2. Shaft (1973)
Richard Roundtree 3. Brewster Place (1990)
4. Cosby Mysteries, The (1994)
5. City of Angels (2000)

Black Variety
1. Basin Street Revue (1956)
2. Richard Pryor Show, The (1977)
3. Ain't Misbehavin (1982) (TV)
4. In Living Color (1990)
5. Gregory Hines Show, The (1997)

Black Mini-Series
1. Roots (1977)
2. Roots: The Next Generations (1979)
3. Roots: The Gift (1988) (TV)
4. Blue and the Gray, The (1982)
5. Shaka Zulu (1984)
Henry Cele 6. North and South (1985)
7. Queen (1993)
8. Black Fox (1995) (TV)
9. Wedding, The (1998)

Black Documentaries
1. Nine from Little Rock (1964)
2. King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
3. Eyes on the Prize (1987)
4. We Shall Overcome (1989)
5. That's Black Entertainment (1990)
6. Hoop Dreams (1994)
7. Flight to Freedom (1995)
8. Journey of the African-American Athlete, The (1996) (TV)
9. 4 Little Girls (1997)
10. Jazz (2001)
11. Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery (1998)
12. Middle Passage, The (2000)
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