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Vote up your favorite movies to watch on Juneteenth
The best Juneteenth movies are fun films to watch on or around the holiday. The movies on this list do not necessarily take place on Juneteenth but they do celebrate Black culture and heritage, making them great movies to watch on Juneteenth. This list has the most festive Juneteenth movies, many of which are popular titles that won multiple awards. What are the absolute best Juneteenth movies ever released? What films should you watch on Juneteenth?
These are great movies if you are looking to stay in on June 19th, rather than head out to a cookout or barbecue. This list features the greatest Juneteenth movies including titles such as Miss Juneteenth, Get Out, Big Momma's House, Black Panther, Judas and the Black Messiah, Dolemite is my Name, and Bad Boys. A lot of these Juneteenth movies are available right now thanks to streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and HBO Max. Many of these are even among the best black movies of all time.
Vote up the best movies to watch on Juneteenth below, or you can also vote down the movies you think other fans should skip.
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- 1Andra Day, Trevante Rhodes, Natasha Lyonne
- Released: 2021
- Directed by: Lee Daniels
The United States vs. Billie Holiday is a 2020 American biographical drama film directed by Lee Daniels, based on the book Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann ...more - 2Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith
- Released: 2017
- Directed by: Malcolm D. Lee
Best friends Ryan, Sasha, Lisa and Dina are in for the adventure of a lifetime when they travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival. Along the way, they rekindle their sisterhood and ...more - 3Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons
- Released: 2021
- Directed by: Shaka King
Judas and the Black Messiah is a 2021 American biographical drama film directed by Shaka King. William O'Neal is a petty criminal in the 1960s who agrees to work as an informant for the FBI in order ...more - 4Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Questlove
- Released: 2020
- Directed by: Pete Docter
Joe is a middle-school band teacher whose life hasn't quite gone the way he expected. His true passion is jazz -- and he's good. But when he travels to another realm to help someone find their ...more - 5Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss
- Released: 2019
- Directed by: Jordan Peele
Accompanied by her husband, son and daughter, Adelaide Wilson returns to the beachfront home where she grew up as a child. Haunted by a traumatic experience from the past, Adelaide grows increasingly ...more - 6Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Ri'chard, Rob Brown
- Released: 2005
- Directed by: Thomas Carter
In 1999, Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) returns to his old high school in Richmond, California, to get the basketball team into shape. With tough rules and academic discipline, he succeeds in setting ...more - 7Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, Ryan Michelle Bathe
- Released: 2020
- Directed by: Eugene Ashe
Sylvie's Love is a 2020 American romantic drama film directed by Eugene Ashe. A woman working at her father's record store in Harlem in the late 1950s meets an aspiring saxophone player. - 8KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King
- Released: 2018
- Directed by: Barry Jenkins
In early 1970s Harlem, daughter and wife-to-be Tish vividly recalls the passion, respect and trust that have connected her and her artist fiancé Alonzo Hunt, who goes by the nickname Fonny. Friends ...more - 9Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell
- Released: 1986
- Directed by: Spike Lee
Beautiful Nola Darling (Tracy Camilla Johns) can't decide what kind of man she wants to date, so she decides to date three at the same time. The first is Greer Childs (John Canada Terrell), a rich, ...more - 10Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Alfre Woodard
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Monica (Sanaa Lathan) and Quincy (Omar Epps) are two childhood friends who both aspire to be professional basketball players. Quincy, whose father, Zeke (Dennis Haysbert), plays for the Los Angeles ...more - 11Zendaya, John David Washington
- Released: 2021
- Directed by: Sam Levinson
Malcolm & Marie is a 2021 American drama film directed by Sam Levinson. After the successful premiere of a his latest movie, a filmmaker (John David Washington) and his girlfriend (Zendaya) test ...more - 12Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Regina King
- Released: 1998
- Directed by: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Unlucky-in-love stockbroker Stella (Angela Bassett) jets to Jamaica with her gal pal Delilah (Whoopi Goldberg) for some fun in the sun. There, the 40-year-old working woman has an island fling with ...more - 13Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Judd Nelson
- Released: 1991
- Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
Drug tycoon Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) and his minions, known collectively as the Cash Money Brothers, have rapidly risen to the top of the New York City narcotics trade. Under Nino's heartless ...more - 14Idris Elba, Method Man, Lorraine Toussaint
- Released: 2020
- Directed by: Ricky Staub
Sent to live with his estranged father for the summer, a rebellious teen finds kinship in a tight-knit Philadelphia community of Black cowboys. - 15Demetrius Shipp, Danai Gurira, Katerina Graham
- Released: 2017
- Directed by: Benny Boom
The true and untold story of prolific rapper, actor, poet and activist Tupac Shakur (Demetrius Shipp Jr.), from his early days in New York to his status as one of the world's most recognized and ...more - 16Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen Henderson
- Released: 2016
- Directed by: Denzel Washington
Troy Maxson (Denzel Washington) makes his living as a sanitation worker in 1950s Pittsburgh. Maxson once dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player, but was deemed too old when the major ...more - 17Nick Cannon, Wesley Snipes, Teyonah Parris
- Released: 2015
- Directed by: Spike Lee
The girlfriend (Teyonah Parris) of a Chicago gang leader (Nick Cannon) persuades other frustrated women to abstain from sex until their men agree to end the senseless cycle of violence. - 18O'Shea Jackson, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell
- Released: 2015
- Directed by: F. Gary Gray
In 1988, a groundbreaking new group revolutionizes music and pop culture, changing and influencing hip-hop forever. N.W.A's first studio album, "Straight Outta Compton," stirs controversy with its ...more - 19Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Tracey Cherelle Jones
- Released: 1996
- Directed by: Paris Barclay
Innocent young black man Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) is forced to move into a tough Los Angeles slum with his family, including his oddly streetwise, pot-smoking grandma (Helen Martin). Before long, ...more - 20Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long
- Released: 1997
- Directed by: George Tillman
When Ahmad Simmons' (Brandon Hammond) diabetic grandmother, Josephine "Big Mama" Joseph (Irma P. Hall), falls into a coma during an operation to amputate her leg, it throws the Joseph family into ...more - 21Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith, Bokeem Woodbine
- Released: 2019
- Directed by: Melina Matsoukas
Slim and Queen's first date takes an unexpected turn when a policeman pulls them over for a minor traffic violation. When the situation escalates, Slim takes the officer's gun and shoots him in ...more - 22Laurence Fishburne, Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding
- Released: 1991
- Directed by: John Singleton
Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is sent to live with his father, Furious Styles (Larry Fishburne), in tough South Central Los Angeles. Although his hard-nosed father instills proper values and respect in him, ...more - 23Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe
- Released: 2016
- Directed by: Theodore Melfi
Three brilliant African American women at NASA -- Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson -- serve as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut ...more - 24Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Malcolm X
- Released: 2016
- Directed by: Raoul Peck
I Am Not Your Negro is a 2016 French, American, Belgian and Swiss documentary film directed by Raoul Peck, based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember This House. Narrated by actor Samuel ...more - 25Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Taylor Hackford
Legendary soul musician Ray Charles is portrayed by Jamie Foxx in this Oscar-winning biopic. Young Ray watches his 7-year-old brother drown at age seven. When he loses his sight at the age of 9, his ...more
