Related Titles

Movies Like Birth of a Nation

Find movies like Birth of a Nation using TMDB similarity plus Movie Rankings community context. Our top current pick is The Hate U Give. Browse 18 related titles with direct links to rankings, cast pages, and matchup data.

These picks blend TMDB similar-title seeds with Movie Rankings community ranking context.

Next Best Actions

Explore Language Rankings

Recommended If You Liked Birth of a Nation
TMDB Recommended

The Hate U Give

2018

Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

TMDB Similar

Watercolors

1978

Anka competes for a role in "Swan Lake". The girl's determination is not shared by her boyfriend Marek

TMDB Similar

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

2006

When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to 'leap' backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.

TMDB Similar

Angels with Dirty Faces

1938

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.

TMDB Recommended

The Unforgivable

2021

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.

TMDB Similar

Habibie & Ainun 3

2019

When she was in high school, Ainun was known as a smart girl and became the target of many male students, including Habibie. In college, Ainun became a popular figure. Ahmad is a man who dared to express his love for Ainun.

TMDB Similar

Only Yesterday

1991

In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

TMDB Similar

Yesterday

2004

After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.

TMDB Recommended

Lean On Me

1989

When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers, padlocks doors and demands effort and results from students, staff and parents. Autocratic to a fault, this real-life educator put it all on the line.

TMDB Similar

Yellow

2023

In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, a woman walks into a chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full-body veil and face an uncertain future.

TMDB Recommended

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after him.

TMDB Similar

History of Walking Upright

2017

Mi Na is a normal high school student who skatesboards to school every day and has an unacknowledged crush on family friend slash local tennis star Jong Min, who is her fellow student. Also Mi Na has the superpower to turn invisible twice a day.

TMDB Similar

The Ernest Green Story

1993

Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.

TMDB Recommended

Riot in Cell Block 11

1954

A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.

TMDB Similar

The Class

2008

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

TMDB Similar

Holes

2003

After being wrongfully convicted for stealing a pair of shoes, Stanley Yelnats is sent away to Camp Green Lake, a boys detention facility where inmates are forced to dig holes all day in the hot desert sun as a form of character building. As he endures the brutal routine, Stanley begins to uncover a hidden truth behind the camp—one that connects to a dangerous secret and his family’s history.

TMDB Recommended

Blackboard Jungle

1955

Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.

TMDB Similar

Manic

2001

Follows the fate of Lyle, a violent adolescent who, in lieu of prison, is placed in a juvenile mental institution, where he encounters a group of equally troubled teens. This motley crew—abused, sexually confused, violent, and yet hanging on by their grit and anger—becomes Lyle's last lifeline as he fights to find meaning in a world that seems to defy understanding.

What are the best movies like Birth of a Nation?

The Hate U Give is the strongest current recommendation on this page for viewers looking for movies like Birth of a Nation.

How many recommendations are on the Birth of a Nation page?

This page currently lists 18 related titles for Birth of a Nation.

How often does the Movies Like Birth of a Nation page update?

This page refreshes whenever Movie Rankings rebuilds the related-title view for Birth of a Nation. It was last generated from site data on May 15, 2026.