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Best Malcolm X Movies Ranked

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Malcolm X Acting Filmography (47)

Orwell: 2+2=5
2025·Self (archive footage)
America's Woman
2024·Self
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024·Self (archive footage)
Stand
2023·Self (archive footage)
Four Died Trying: Prologue
2023·Self (archive footage)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021·Self - Activist (archive footage)
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
2021·Self (archive footage)
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
2020·Self
Da 5 Bloods
2020·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020·Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X and the Sudanese
2020·Self
Barney's Wall
2019·Self (archive footage)
The Apollo
2019·Self (archive footage)
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019·Self (archive footage)
When Tariq Ali Met Malcolm X
2019·Self (archive footage)
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
2018·Self (archive footage)
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
2018
Burn Motherfucker, Burn!
2017·Self (archive footage)
13th
2016·Self (archive footage)
Lemonade
2016·Self (voice) (uncredited)
The Trials of Muhammad Ali
2013·Self (archive footage)
COINTELPRO 101
2010·Self (archive footage)
Motherland
2010·Self (archive footage)
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
2009·Self (archive footage)
Black Power Salute
2008·Self (archive footage)
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007·Self (archive footage)
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Huey P. Newton Story
2001·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
2001·Self (archive footage)
Muhammad Ali The Whole Story
1996·Self (archive footage)
All Power to the People!
1996·Self (archive footage)
Black Women, Sexual Politics and the Revolution
1992·Himself (archive)
Death Scenes 2
1992·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Real Malcolm X
1992
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
1992
The FBI's War on Black America
1990·Self (archive footage)
A Decade of Struggle
1980·Self
Born of the People: Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X
1975
Muhammad Ali, the Greatest
1974·Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X
1972·Self (archive footage)
Dynamite Chicken
1971·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
a.k.a. Cassius Clay
1970·Self
A Tribute to Malcolm X
1967·Self (archive footage)
Black Liberation
1967·Self
The Negro and the American Promise
1963
Walk in My Shoes
1961·Self
The Hate That Hate Produced
1959·Himself