HBO Max Releases Select Titles For Free For Black History Month

HBO Max will be celebrating Black History Month with the launch of a new spotlight page that will celebrate “the visionaries amongst us, and collectively promotes and supports the telling of stories from the Black perspective.”

The list of titles — which will include films, documentaries, biopics, original programming, and animation — will be featured on the Black History Is Our History spotlight page.

“Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Black Art: In The Absence of Light,” “Between The World And Me,” “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” “Say Her Name: The Life And Death of Sandra Bland,” and “King of the Wilderness” will be among the available titles, along with animated series’ like “Boondocks.”

The spotlight page will also include the 2020 finalists of HBO’s Short Film Competition in partnership with the American Black Film Festival (ABFF): “Dolapo Is Fine,” “A Storybook Ending,” “Black Boy Joy,” “A Rodeo Film,” and “The Cypher.”

What can you be watching?

A look at the select titles you can watch for free on HBO.com and HBOMax.com can be seen below.

OUR PAST (Documentaries, Biopics, and Original Films)

• 4 Little Girls, 1997 (HBO)

• 40 Years a Prisoner, 2020 (HBO)

• 1968, 2018

• Amistad, 1997 (HBO)

• Being Serena (HBO)

• Bessie, 2015 (HBO)

• Between the World and Me, 2020 (HBO)

• Black Art: In The Absence of Light, 2021 (HBO) (premieres 2/9)

• Boycott, 2001 (HBO)

• Confirmation, 2016 (HBO)

• Ebony: The Last Years of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 2016

• Equal, 2020

• Fists of Freedom: The Story of the ’68 Summer Games, 1999 (HBO)

• Harriet, 2019 (HBO)

• John Lewis: Good Trouble, 2020

• Just Mercy, 2019 (HBO)

• Kareem: Minority of One, 2015 (HBO)

• King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery to Memphis, 1970

• King in the Wilderness, 2018 (HBO)

• Malcolm X, 1992

• Mavis!, 2015 (HBO)

• Miss Evers’ Boys, 1997 (HBO)

• Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist, 1979

• Ray, 2004 (HBO)

• Red Tails, 2012 (HBO)

• Roots, 1997

• Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland, 2018 (HBO)

• Sugar Ray Robinson: The Bright Lights & Dark Shadows of a Champion, 1998 (HBO)

• The Apollo, 2019 (HBO)

• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, 1974 (HBO)

• The Hurricane, 1999 (HBO)

• The Loving Story, 2011 (HBO)

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, 2017 (HBO)

• The Shop: Uninterrupted S3, E2 (HBO)

• The Soul of America, 2020 (HBO)

• The Tuskegee Airmen, 1995 (HBO)

• TIGER, Parts 1 & 2 2021 (HBO)

• True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality, 2019 (HBO)

• Under the Grapefruit Tree: The CC Sabathia Story, 2020 (HBO)

• We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest, 2020 (HBO)

• We Will Rise: Michelle Obama’s Mission to Educate Girls Around the World, 2016

• What’s My Name | Muhammad Ali Parts 1 & 2, 2019 (HBO)

• Women of Troy, 2020 (HBO)

OUR JOY (Classic Comedy Series, Films, and Stand-Up Specials)

• Amanda Seales: I Be Knowin’, 2019 (HBO)

• A Black Lady Sketch Show (HBO)

• A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, 1996

• Chris Rock: Bigger and Blacker, 1999 (HBO)

• Dave Chappelle: Killing Them Softly, 2000 (HBO)

• Eve

• Fifty Shades of Black, 2016 (HBO)

• How to Be a Player, 1997 (HBO)

• Insecure (HBO)

• Key & Peele

• Legendary

• Life, 1999 (HBO)

• Lil Rel Howery: Live in Crenshaw, 2019 (HBO)

• Loiter Squad

• Love and Basketball, 2000

• Love Jones, 1997

• Purple Rain, 1984

• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion

• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (HBO)

• The Photograph, 2020 (HBO)

• The Wayans Bros

• Yvonne Orji: Momma, I Made It!, 2020 (HBO)

OUR FUTURE (Groundbreaking Series and Films)

• 2 Dope Queens (HBO)

• Above the Rim, 1994 (HBO)

• Beasts of the Southern Wild, 2012 (HBO)

• Betty (HBO)

• Charm City Kings, 2020

• Chewing Gum

• David Makes Man

• Euphoria (HBO)

• Flight, 2012 (HBO)

• Go Tell It on the Mountain, 1985 (HBO)

• He Got Game, 1998 (HBO)

• Home Videos (HBO)

• Industry (HBO)

• Insecure (HBO)

• I May Destroy You (HBO)

• Lean On Me, 1989

• Lovecraft Country (HBO)

• Malcolm X, 1992

• Native Son, 2019 (HBO)

• New Jack City, 1991

• Nightingale, 2014 (HBO)

• O.G., 2018 (HBO)

• Queen and Slim, 2019 (HBO)

• Random Acts of Flyness (HBO)

• Rosewood, 1997

• Sermon on the Mount (HBO)

• Something the Lord Made, 2004 (HBO)

• The Color Purple, 1985

• The Last King of Scotland, 2006 (HBO)

• The Little Things, 2021(Streaming for a limited time)

• True Detective (HBO)

• Us, 2019 (expires 2/22) (HBO)

• Watchmen (HBO)

• We Are Who We Are (HBO)

• Yuli, 2018 (HBO)

OUR IMAGINATION (Animation)

• Black Dynamite

• Codename: Kids Next Door

• Craig of the Creek

• gen:LOCK

• Laser Wolf

• Static Shock

• Steven Universe

• Steven Universe Future

• Teen Titans

• The Boondocks

• The Jellies

• Todd McFarlane’s Spawn (HBO)

• Vixen

• Young Justice

Additionally, the select titles below will be available for free on HBO.com and HBOMax.com.

Titles available on HBO.com

• 40 Years a Prisoner (HBO)

• Being Serena (Season 1 Episode 1) (HBO)

• Between the World and Me (HBO)

• Bessie (HBO)

• Black Art: In the Absence of Light (premieres 2/9) (HBO)

• I May Destroy You (Season 1 Episode 1) (HBO)

• Insecure (Season 1 Episode 1) (HBO)

• King in the Wilderness (HBO)

• Lovecraft Country (Episode 1) (HBO)

• Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (HBO)

• The Apollo (HBO)

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (HBO)

• The Loving Story (HBO)

• The Shop: Uninterrupted (Season 3 Episode 2) (HBO)

• We Are the Dream (HBO)

• What’s My Name | Muhammad Ali (HBO)

• Women of Troy (HBO)

Titles available on HBOMax.com

• A Black Lady Sketch Show (Season 1 Episode 1)

• Being Serena (Season 1 Episode 1)

• Between the World and Me

• Black Boy Joy (premieres 2/2)

• Insecure (Season 1 Episode 1)

• I May Destroy You (Season 1 Episode 1)

• Lovecraft Country (Episode 1)

• Watchmen (Episode 1)