We Asked 45,152 Black Women: What’s the ONE Documentary Every Black Woman Should Watch? (Here are the Results.)

We asked our community, “What is one documentary that every Black woman should watch. The comment section immediately was flooded with “someone like this comment so I can come back” and a list of documentaries that we think you’ll enjoy watching on your next self-care day.

Open your notes app and get ready to update your “watch later” playlist. This is the official, community-sourced list of must-watch documentaries for every Black woman. This is going to be a living post, so we’ll update it periodically as we get more recommendations. P.S. These films are in no particular order. Every single recommendation is essential. This post may contain affiliate links. If you make a qualifying purchase through any of the links below, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

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• Dark girls
• A girl like me
• Eggs over easy: black women and fertility
• In Our Mothers’ Gardens – This was recommended multiple times
• Hidden Colors (iWebTV app)
• Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (2013)
• Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004)
• Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 (2012)
• The Black Feminist Documentary (2019)
• Eggs Over Easy: Black Women & Fertility (2022)
• Black Barbie: A Documentary (2023 / 2024)
• Black Girls (2024) – This was recommended multiple times
• A Love Song for Latasha (2019)
• Kokomo City (2023)
• Leigh-Anne: Race, Pop & Power (2021)
• Good Hair – This was recommended multiple times
• The Ebony Canal
• Europa: The last battle
• African Queens: Njinga
• She Did That
• 13TH
• City of Joy
• Black Mother
• Set in Jamaica
• Toni Morrison:The Pieces I am
• Beah: A Black Woman Speaks – This was recommended multiple times
• The Secret
• The Business of Being Born. It’s a documentary by Rikki Lake about birth
• 13th
• Life of Marsha P Johnson
• Origin
• Skin Deep. Smithsonian Institute documentary
• Aftershock
• Ethnic Notions
• Tupac Resurrection