Sissako’s masterful fourth feature, the first from Barnes and Glover’s production company, is a vibrant and idiosyncratic legal drama that examines the law as a means of effecting political change.

Olsson’s documentary utilizes never-before-seen interviews (with Stokely Carmichael and Angela Davis among others), conducted by a group of Swedish filmmakers, to chronicle the growth of the Black Power movement.

Entirely wordless, Gunda boasts immersive natural sound design and crisp, pastoral black-and-white cinematography to paint an unprecedented portrait of animal life.

With the artistic support of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Glover, and Laura Poitras, RaMell Ross spent five years intimately observing a community of African Americans in the Deep South, out of which comes this visionary and political meditation on race in America.

Grimonprez’s powerful documentary unflinchingly examines the role that the arms industry has played in determining international political and economic policy, and at what price.

A haunting and stylized investigation into the murder of a young Black man in 1992, Yance Ford’s gripping, achingly personal Strong Island tells one of the most remarkable stories in recent documentary cinema.

The second feature by Nepali filmmaker Deepak Rauniyar sensitively explores the damage done to the fabric of his nation’s society by the decade-long civil war between the Maoists and Nepal’s monarchical government.

Martel’s intoxicating adaptation of Antonio di Benedetto’s 1956 classic of Argentine literature follows an officer of the Spanish crown in late-18th-century Paraguay as he succumbs to lust and paranoia.

A powerful, suspenseful film about guilt, memory, and the horrors wrought by slavery, Demme’s adaptation of Toni Morrison’s novel endures as a mesmerizingly ahead-of-its-time take on the ghost story.

Adapted from Athol Fugard’s 1969 play, John Berry’s final feature stars Glover and Angela Bassett as the titular couple struggling to get by after being booted from their shantytown in apartheid-era South Africa.

Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated eighth feature, adapted from Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 1982 novel, is an epic and commanding cinematic exploration of myriad forms of social and physical violence against Black women.

Benton’s deeply personal fifth feature, set in small-town Texas during the Great Depression, chronicles a recent widow’s (Sally Field) efforts to keep her farm going with the help of a drifting handyman (Glover).

Burnett’s To Sleep with Anger remains one of the finest films to capture the Black experience in modern America. Executive producer Glover stars as Harry Mention, a drifter from the South who visits an old acquaintance now living with his family in Los Angeles—but Harry’s knack for mischief creates powerful rifts throughout the household.