List of films about black girlhood

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List of films about black girlhood

This portrait of Black girlhood was part of a series of African American photographs originally assembled for a 1900 Paris Exposition by W.E.B. DuBois.
Years active	1970s–present
Major figures	Ossie Davis, Julie Dash, Ava DuVernay, Leslie Harris (director), Kasi Lemmons, Channing Godfrey Peoples, Dee Rees, Céline Sciamma, Maïmouna Doucouré and others

This is a list of mostly U.S. American films about black girlhood. This age group can range from young children to those experiencing adolescence. These depictions are often called coming-of-age stories. ^{[1] [2]}

pre-1980s

• Imitation of Life (1934)
• Black Girl ^[1] (1972)
• Cooley High (1975)

1980-1989

• The Color Purple ^[2] (1985)
• Polly ^[2] (1989)

1990-1999

• Flirting ^[2] (1991)
• Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. ^{[2] [3] [1]} (1992)
• Sarafina! ^[2] (1992)
• Crooklyn ^{[2] [3] [1]} (1994)
• Alma's Rainbow ^[4] (1994)
• Girls Town (1996)
• Eve’s Bayou ^{[2] [3] [1]} (1997)
• Cinderella (1997)
• Drylongso ^[5] (1998)
• Ruby Bridges ^[6] (1998)

2000-2009

• Bring It On (2000)
• Love & Basketball ^[2] (2000)
• Our Song ^{[3] [1]} (2000)
• The Cheetah Girls (2003)
• Akeelah and the Bee ^{[2] [3]} (2006)
• Half Nelson ^[7] (2006)
• Rain ^[8] (2008)
• Precious ^{[2] [3]} (2009)
• The Princess and the Frog ^[9] 2009

2010-2019

• Pariah ^{[2] [3]} (2011)
• Yelling to the Sky ^[2] (2011)
• Beasts of the Southern Wild ^[2] (2012)
• Girlhood ^{[3] [1]} (2014)
• The Gabby Douglas Story ^[10] (2014)
• The Fits ^{[11] [3]} (2015)
• Home ^[12] (2015)
• A Girl Like Grace ^[13] (2015)
• Flowers ^[14] (2016)
• The Girl with All the Gifts ^[15] (2016)
• Queen of Katwe ^[16] (2016)
• For Ahkeem ^[17] (2017)
• I Am Not a Witch ^[18] (2017)
• Everything, Everything (2017)
• Roxanne, Roxanne ^[16] (2017)
• Deidra & Laney Rob A Train ^[19] (2017)
• Jinn ^{[3] [1]} (2018)
• Mahalia Melts in the Rain (2018)
• Night Comes On ^[3] (2018)
• Rafiki ^[18] (2018)
• Solace ^[20] (2018)
• First Match ^[21] (2018)
• Fast Color ^[22] (2018)
• The Hate U Give ^[23] (2018)
• A Wrinkle in Time ^[16] (2018)
• Jezebel ^[20] (2019)
• Little ^[24] (2019)
• Pick (2019) ^[25]
• Rocks ^[26] (2019)
• Premature ^[20] (2019)
• Selah and the Spades ^[20] (2019)
• See You Yesterday ^[27] (2019)
• The Sun Is Also a Star ^[16] (2019)
• Atlantics ^[15] (2019)

2020s

• Miss Juneteenth ^[28] (2020)
• Cuties ^[29] (2020)
• Pillars ^[29] (2020)
• Tahara ^[30] (2020)
• She Paradise ^[31] (2020)
• On The Come Up ^[21] (2022)
• Wendell & Wild ^[32] (2022)
• Darby and the Dead ^[33] (2022)
• Hawa ^[34] (2022)
• All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt ^[35] (2023)
• Girl ^[36] (2023)

See also

• List of teen films
• Sociology of childhood

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