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1. Ali (2001)

R | 157 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.

Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles

Votes: 105,617 | Gross: $58.20M

2. Celebrity (1998)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama

The fortunes of a husband and wife differ drastically after they divorce.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Greg Mottola

Votes: 28,444 | Gross: $5.03M

3. Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)

G | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Family

Sinbad the Sailor sails to deliver a cursed prince to a dangerous island in the face of deadly opposition from the powerful witch Zenobia, her son and their several monsters.

Director: Sam Wanamaker | Stars: Patrick Wayne, Jane Seymour, Taryn Power, Margaret Whiting

Votes: 8,683 | Gross: $16.79M

4. South Central (1992)

R | 98 min | Crime, Drama

A former gangster fresh out of prison wants to change his life for the better and must save his 10 year old son who has already chosen a gang life.

Director: Stephen Milburn Anderson | Stars: Glenn Plummer, Byron Minns, Lexie Bigham, Vincent Craig Dupree

Votes: 6,722 | Gross: $1.37M

5. The Second Civil War (1997 TV Movie)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama

A simple immigration issue spins wildly out of control for those involved, ranging from the President of the United States, to a news producer.

Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Beau Bridges, Joanna Cassidy, Phil Hartman, James Earl Jones

Votes: 2,279

6. Sahara (I) (1943)

Approved | 97 min | Action, Drama, War

After the fall of Tobruk in 1942, during the Allied retreat in the Libyan desert, an American tank picks-up a motley group of survivors but they face advancing Germans and a lack of water.

Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges

Votes: 9,764

7. Get on the Bus (1996)

R | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, History

A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Ossie Davis, Charles S. Dutton, Andre Braugher, Richard Belzer

Votes: 6,044 | Gross: $5.73M

8. The Message (1976)

PG | 207 min | Action, Adventure, Biography

The story of prophet "Muhammad" and the delivery of the message of God "Allah."

Director: Moustapha Akkad | Stars: Abdallah Gheith, Mona Wassef, Hamdy Gheith, Ali Achmed Taram

Votes: 10,618

9. Days of Glory (2006)

R | 120 min | Action, Drama, War

During World War II, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from German oppression, and to fight French discrimination.

Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Jamel Debbouze

Votes: 15,148 | Gross: $0.32M

10. Riverworld (2010 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 178 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

Welcome to Riverworld, a place of strange, watery beauty and the current abode of a fascinating cast of the recently (and not-so-recently) dead. It certainly isn't Heaven, but it just might be Hell.

Director: Stuart Gillard | Stars: Tahmoh Penikett, Mark Deklin, Peter Wingfield, Jeananne Goossen

Votes: 2,390

11. Shaft in Africa (1973)

R | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Private investigator John Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a modern slavery ring where young Africans are lured to Paris to do chain-gang work.

Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay, Vonetta McGee, Neda Arneric

Votes: 3,219 | Gross: $3.18M

12. London River (2009)

Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Mystery

Two strangers come to discover the fate of their respective children in the 2005 terrorist attacks on London.

Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté, Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem

Votes: 3,881 | Gross: $0.00M

13. The Greatest (1977)

PG | 101 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

Muhammad Ali plays himself in a reconstruction of the events that brought him to fame.

Directors: Tom Gries, Monte Hellman | Stars: Muhammad Ali, Ernest Borgnine, John Marley, Lloyd Haynes

Votes: 1,625 | Gross: $8.28M

14. Who Killed Malcolm X? (2019–2020)

43 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Activist Abdur-Rahman Muhammad begins his own investigation into the perplexing details surrounding the assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X.

Stars: Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, Muhammad A. Aziz, Zak A. Kondo, David Garrow

Votes: 2,383

15. Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013)

Not Rated | 97 min | Biography, Drama

Ali's biggest match, his fight with the US government. A film about the politics and hubris surrounding the Vietnam War and the revenge exacted on America's greatest sportsman of the 20th century because he refused to fight in that war.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Frank Langella, Ed Begley Jr., Peter Gerety

Votes: 2,592

16. Death of a Prophet (1981 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 60 min | Drama, History

After breaking ties with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X became a man marked for death...and it was just a matter of time before his enemies closed in. Despite death threats and intimidation... See full summary »

Director: Woodie King Jr. | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Yolanda King, Mansoor Najee-ullah, Sam Singleton

Votes: 302

17. The Algerian (2014)

99 min | Action, Romance, Thriller

A sleeper cell terrorist travels to America and hides in plain sight as an engineering student. As he waits for the rest of his terrorist cell to join him for a deadly mission, he falls in love which jeopardizes his beliefs and the mission

Director: Giovanni Zelko | Stars: Ben Youcef, Candice Coke, Harry Lennix, Tara Holt

Votes: 243 | Gross: $0.07M

18. Sadat (1983)

PG | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History

The dramatization of the life of Egyptian leader Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat, from his early years as a young officer fighting the British, to his assassination in 1981.

Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., John Rhys-Davies, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Jeremy Kemp

Votes: 282

19. The Interrupters (2011)

Unrated | 125 min | Documentary, Crime

A year in the life of a city grappling with urban violence.

Director: Steve James | Stars: Tio Hardiman, Ameena Matthews, Toya Batey, Cobe Williams

Votes: 3,616 | Gross: $0.28M

20. Farewell to the Night (2019)

104 min | Drama

Muriel farms horses and owns an almond plantation. When her grandson comes to visit her for one last time before he leaves for Canada. She learns that he has dark secrets.

Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Kacey Mottet Klein, Oulaya Amamra, Stéphane Bak

Votes: 862

21. Facing Ali (2009)

R | 100 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport

Ten of Muhammad Ali's former rivals pay tribute to the three-time world heavyweight champion.

Director: Pete McCormack | Stars: George Chuvalo, Henry Cooper, George Foreman, Joe Frazier

Votes: 3,776

22. Café au lait (1993)

94 min | Comedy, Romance

Lola is pregnant. But she does not know who the father is: Jamal, the black muslim, son of diplomats, or Felix, the pennyless jewish messenger. Jamal and Felix meet at Lola's, and the race begins.

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz | Stars: Julie Mauduech, Hubert Koundé, Mathieu Kassovitz, Vincent Cassel

Votes: 1,173 | Gross: $0.32M

23. Malcolm X (1972)

PG | 91 min | Documentary, Biography

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.

Director: Arnold Perl | Stars: James Earl Jones, Ossie Davis, John Ali, Muhammad Ali

Votes: 533 | Gross: $0.10M

24. My Sister, Sara (2020)

30 min | Short, Biography, Drama

In late 2018 and throughout 2019, Sudan experienced months of protests that ultimately overthrew a 30-year dictatorship. Sara Elhassan was among the young grassroots activists who kept the ... See full summary »

Directors: Amin Elhassan, Sarra Idris | Stars: Amin Elhassan, Awad Elhassan, Sara Elhassan

25. The Last White Man (2019)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

An elderly white man lives in the ghetto and refuse to move because he believes it will become the suburban utopia that it once was again.

Director: Rob Tyler | Stars: Rocky Benoit, Disraeli Ellison, Jenna Guercio, Edwardo Keaton

26. Moonchild: The Life and Music of Yusuf Salim

Documentary | Filming

It follows the musical journey of jazz pianist, composer, and mentor Yusuf Salim from his early years immersed in the Baltimore jazz scene to his transformative contributions to the ... See full summary »

Director: Kenny Dalsheimer

27. Hate Preachers (2006)

4 min | Animation, Short

Hate preachers for too long have been fostering hate crimes. This animated short takes a look at their destructive rhetoric and encourages all of us to speak out to offset these ... See full summary »

Director: Dave Puls

28. Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999)
Episode: Scene of the Crime (1996)

TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Two young black men are found shot to death at a project where Black Muslims have a security contract from HUD. Residents are hostile to the police initially. When one bereaved mother tells... See full summary »

Director: Kathy Bates | Stars: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hofmann

Votes: 135

29. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: The Good Collar (1986)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Crockett attempts to help a high-school football star achieve his dream, while others pressure him to help bring down a teenage drug lord.

Director: Mario DiLeo | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 466

30. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Walk-Alone (1986)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Tubbs goes undercover in a penitentiary to try and smoke out a group of corrupt prison guards.

Director: David Jackson | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 494

31. Oz (1997–2003)
Episode: The Routine (1997)

TV-MA | 54 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

In the 'Emerald City' experimental unit of Oswald State Penitentiary, we meet some of the diverse inmates who exist in a pecking order of Gangbangers, Latinos, Muslims, Westies, Aryans and Wiseguys.

Director: Darnell Martin | Stars: Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Harold Perrineau, Eamonn Walker

Votes: 3,080

32. Becoming Evil: Sisterhood of Murder (2019– )
Episode: 21st Century Serial Killers (2019)

TV-14 | 54 min | Documentary, Crime

The crimes of American spree killer Andrew Cunanan whose victims included Gianni Versace, the Beltway snipers who terrorised the Washington DC area, and the Milwaukee Cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer.

Director: Ron Meyer | Stars: Eric Hickey, Katherine Ramsland, Dirk Duran-Gibson, Steven A. Egger

Votes: 12

33. Ladies of the Press (1962–1968)
Episode: Episode dated 26 June 1964 (1964)

24 min | Talk-Show

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Director: Robert Eberle | Stars: Muhammad Ali, Clifford Evans, Georgiana O'Kane, Gay Pauley

34. Muhammad Ali (2021)
Episode: Round One: The Greatest (1942-1964) (2021)

128 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The young boxing prodigy, Cassius Clay, rises up the amateur ranks to win gold at the 1960 Summer Olympics before turning pro.

Directors: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon | Stars: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Johnny Addie, Hana Ali, Rahman Ali

Votes: 112

35. Muhammad Ali (2021)
Episode: Round Two: What's My Name? (1964-1970) (2021)

108 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Cassius joins the Nation of Islam and adopts the name Muhammad Ali. For three years, he dominates the heavyweight ranks but, upon refusing induction into the U.S. Army in 1967, he is stripped of his world title and his license to box.

Directors: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon | Stars: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Johnny Addie, Khalilah Camacho Ali, Rasheda Ali

Votes: 92

36. Muhammad Ali (2021)
Episode: Round Three: The Rivalry (1970-1974) (2021)

104 min | Documentary, Biography, History

After his return from exile, Muhammad Ali battles Joe Frazier and the U.S. government as he attempts to regain the heavyweight title.

Directors: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon | Stars: Howard Bryant, Jonathan Eig, Gerald Early, David Remnick

Votes: 88

37. Muhammad Ali (2021)
Episode: Round Four: The Spell Remains (1974-2016) (2021)

94 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Muhammad shocks the world when he defeats George Foreman in Zaire, regaining the heavyweight title and becoming the most famous man on earth, before completing the trilogy with his old foe, Joe Frazier, in the 'Thrilla in Manila'.

Directors: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon | Stars: Wole Soyinka, Salim Muwakkil, Gerald Early, Todd Boyd

Votes: 93

38. The Andrew Klavan Show (2015– )
New York City Is a Criminal's Paradise (2023 Podcast Episode)

Talk-Show

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Stars: Andrew Klavan, Nachshon, Jennifer Harrison

39. Part of the Problem (2018– )
Tucker Carlson (2023 Podcast Episode)

News, Talk-Show

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Stars: Dave Smith, Tucker Carlson

40. Homeland (2011–2020)
Episode: Fair Game (2016)

TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Carrie returns home to the US with Franny to work as an advocate for Muslim Americans. Dar and Saul brief President-elect Keane. Quinn struggles with his new circumstances.

Director: Keith Gordon | Stars: Claire Danes, Rupert Friend, Elizabeth Marvel, F. Murray Abraham

Votes: 2,600

41. Homeland (2011–2020)
Episode: A Flash of Light (2017)

TV-MA | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Carrie handles her client. Saul's trip takes a turn. Quinn investigates.

Director: Lesli Linka Glatter | Stars: Claire Danes, Rupert Friend, Elizabeth Marvel, F. Murray Abraham

Votes: 2,151

42. This World (2004– )
Episode: The Attack: Terror in the U.K (2017)

Documentary

Counter Terrorism Police believe that the current greatest threat to our security comes from Marauding Terrorist Firearms Attack (MTFA), which can result in dozens of fatalities even if armed police respond within minutes.

Director: Gabriel Range | Stars: Nick Judge, Adrian Derrick-Palmer, Waj Ali, Fayez Bakhsh

Votes: 9

43. BuzzFeed Unsolved: Sports Conspiracies (2017–2018)
Episode: Muhammad Ali and the Phantom Punch (2018)

17 min | Mystery

Did Liston take a dive in this title fight?

Director: Ryan Bergara | Stars: Ryan Bergara, Zack Evans

Votes: 21