Films and TV shows that feel like Fight The Power by Public Enemy

A defiant, urgent protest anthem that turns Black anger and pride into a marching call to resist authority and rewrite the heroes of history.

1. Do the Right Thing (1989): The song opens and runs through the film, the Bed-Stuy heat wave and the confrontation it was written for.
2. Malcolm X (1992): Spike Lee's epic of the uncompromising Black leader whose militant voice echoes Chuck D's message.
3. Selma (2014): Organized, high-stakes resistance to state power and racial injustice, led by moral urgency.
4. Boyz n the Hood (1991): Young Black life under the pressure of violence and policing, with the same unflinching anger.
5. BlacKkKlansman (2018): Spike Lee's sharp, funny, furious look at Black power and racism, with a 70s protest-era pulse.
6. Judas and the Black Messiah (2021): The Black Panthers' revolutionary spirit and the state's violent response.
7. When They See Us (2019): A New York miniseries on how the system crushes Black youth, fueled by righteous anger.