AJC video journalists Armani Martin and Ryon Horne know great film. In honor of Black History Month (and leap year - we have 29 days in February this year!) here are their top 29 movie recommendations.
Credit: Jennifer Brett
Credit: Jennifer Brett
Armani's list:
1 Claudine
2 Love Jones
3 Waiting To Exhale
4 Poetic Justice
5 Why Do Fools Fall In Love?
6 Brown Sugar
7 Devil In A Blue Dress
8 Mahogany
9 Boomerang
10 Lady Sings The Blues
11 Purple Rain
12 I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
13 Sweet Sweetback Badassssss Song
14 Soul Food
15 The Best Man
16 Dear White People
17 Eve’s Bayou
18 Friday
19 New Jack City
20 Cooley High
21 The Color Purple
22 Menace II Society
23 Rosewood
24 Juice
25 Malcolm X
26 What Happened, Miss Simone?
27 Do The Right Thing
28 Boyz N The Hood
29 Coming To America
Ryon’s list
1 Friday
2 Purple Rain
3 Boyz N The Hood
4 Color Purple
5 What’s Love Got To Do With It?
6 Ray
7 The Best Man
8 Malcolm X
9 Menace II Society
10 Rosewood
11 Do The Right Thing
12 New Jack City
13 Sweet Sweetback Badassssss Song
14 Mahogany
15 Superfly
16 The Five Heartbeats
17 Dream Girls
18 Beat Street
19 Waiting To Exhale
20 Devil In A Blue Dress
21 Love Jones
22 Heat Of The Night
23 Coming to America
24 Hustle And Flow
25 Harlem Nights
26 Juice
27 The Wiz
28 Let’s Do It Again
29 I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
