Movies like Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (2018)
The best movies like Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (2018) are Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018), Instadocs: Alex Murdaugh, Unconvicted (2026) and Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018). If Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland hooked you with its documentary and tv movie, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest rated13th (2016)7.8/10 from 821 votes
- NewestMy Grandfather Charles Manson (2026)Released 2026
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018)
The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInstadocs: Alex Murdaugh, Unconvicted (2026)
Why was Alex Murdaugh's conviction overturned? The debut of "Instadocs" digs into stunning allegations of jury interference in his double murder trial.
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Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018)
Girl next door, activist, so-called traitor, fitness tycoon, Oscar winner: Jane Fonda has lived a life of controversy, tragedy and transformation – and she's done it all in the public eye. An intimate look at one woman's singular journey.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisI Am Not Your Negro (2017)
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisEscaping Captivity: The Kara Robinson Story (2021)
Kara Robinson Chamberlain recounts in vivid detail being taken at gun point from a friend’s front yard. Forced into in a cramped, dark storage container in her captor’s car, Kara instantly knew her life was in grave danger. In a moment she describes as a divine intervention, the 15-year-old realized she had to be her own victor and take her life back; she had to escape.
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True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality (2019)
An intimate portrait of Alabama public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, who for more than three decades has advocated on behalf of the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned, seeking to eradicate racial discrimination in the criminal justice system.
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What Is a Woman? (2022)
Matt Walsh's controversial doc challenges radical gender ideology through provocative interviews and humor.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like this13th (2016)
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisSeeing Allred (2018)
Gloria Allred overcame trauma and personal setbacks to become one of the nation’s most famous women’s rights attorneys. Now the feminist firebrand takes on two of the biggest adversaries of her career, Bill Cosby and Donald Trump, as sexual violence allegations grip the nation and keep her in the spotlight.
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The Pigeon Tunnel (2023)
Academy Award winner Errol Morris pulls back the curtain on the storied life and career of David Cornwell, the former spy known to the literary world as John le Carré.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUntold: Jake Paul the Problem Child (2023)
Pro boxing sensation — and perennial troublemaker — Jake Paul shares his unlikely journey from online prankster to power puncher in this documentary.
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SnoozefestMovies like thisIntroducing, Selma Blair (2021)
In a quest to take control of her personal health, actor Selma Blair adapts to new ways of living while pursuing an experimental medical procedure, after revealing her diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis in 2018.
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Crime + Punishment (2018)
Over four years of unprecedented access, the story of a brave group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and one unrelenting private investigator who, amidst a landmark lawsuit, risk everything to expose illegal quota practices and their impact on young minorities.
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Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story (2020)
After 16-year-old Cyntoia Brown is sentenced to life in prison, questions about her past, physiology and the law itself call her guilt into question.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Love Song for Latasha (2019)
A dreamlike conversation with the past and the present, reimagining Latasha Harlins' story by excavating intimate memories shared by those who loved her.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe State of Texas vs. Melissa (2021)
Melissa Lucio was the first Hispanic woman sentenced to death in Texas. For ten years she has been awaiting her fate, and now faces her last appeal.
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RBG (2018)
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fighting for equal rights for all citizens under the law. Through intimate interviews and unprecedented access to Ginsburg’s life outside the court, RBG tells the electric story of Ginsburg’s consuming love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved husband Marty—and of a life’s work that led her to become an icon of justice in the highest court in the land.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Light We Carry: Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey (2023)
Michelle Obama delves into the challenges and life lessons that shaped her second bestselling book in an illuminating conversation with Oprah Winfrey.
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My Grandfather Charles Manson (2026)
Sophia was always the good girl growing up and her father's rock, but her quest to identify her unknown grandfather results in a shocking discovery: He is Charles Manson, history's most notorious criminal; and he bears striking physical similarities to her beloved father. Sophia's discovery propels her into an underworld of Manson family members and unreliable narrators as she traces her grandfather's life. Along the way, her genetics unlock never-before-released records and audio recordings that illuminate Manson's pathology in startling ways. But the more Sophia uncovers, the more her relationship with her father is strained. For Sophia, there's no turning back. What has she inherited, and how will she reckon with her family legacy?
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A Dangerous Son (2018)
Documentary following three families each coping with a child affected by serious emotional or mental illness. The families explore treatment opportunities and grapple with the struggle of living with their child's condition.
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The Uncomfortable Truth (2018)
When the award-winning filmmaker of "An Ordinary Hero", Loki Mulholland, dives into the 400 year history of institutional racism in America he is confronted with the shocking reality that his family helped start it all from the very beginning.
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The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM (2022)
In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, the media concocted a narrative that justified a summer of worldwide riots and helped contribute to the rise of Black Lives Matter who used the chaos to raise 90 million dollars. In this documentary, Candace Owens follows the money and discovers exactly how the money was spent and where it did—and didn’t go.
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The End: Inside The Last Days of the Obama White House (2017)
An inside view of Barack Obama's last days as the first African-American President, and the legacy he leaves behind.
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Strong Island (2017)
Examining the violent death of the filmmaker’s brother and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free, this documentary interrogates murderous fear and racialized perception, and re-imagines the wreckage in catastrophe’s wake, challenging us to change.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCrip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020)
Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers, transforming their young lives and igniting a landmark movement.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisBleed Out (2018)
After a routine partial hip replacement operation leaves his mother in a coma with permanent brain damage, what starts as a son's video diary becomes a citizen's investigation into the future of American health care.
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Faye (2024)
Through honest reflection, complemented by insight from colleagues and friends, Faye Dunaway contextualizes her life and filmography, laying bare her struggles with mental health while confronting the double standards she was subjected to as a woman in Hollywood.
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16 Shots (2018)
Documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued.
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Edith+Eddie (2017)
Edith and Eddie, ages 96 and 95, are America's oldest interracial newlyweds. Their unusual and idyllic love story is threatened by a family feud that triggers a devastating abuse of the legal guardianship system.
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Oprah Winfrey Presents: When They See Us Now (2019)
Oprah Winfrey talks with the exonerated men once known as the Central Park Five, plus the cast and producers who tell their story in "When They See Us."
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What are the best movies like Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland?
The closest matches to Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland are Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018), Instadocs: Alex Murdaugh, Unconvicted (2026) and Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland?
People who watched Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland most often go on to Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018), Instadocs: Alex Murdaugh, Unconvicted (2026) and Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland?
13th (2016), rated 7.8/10 by 821 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland?
My Grandfather Charles Manson (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland?
Yes: Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018), Instadocs: Alex Murdaugh, Unconvicted (2026) and Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018).
How are movies similar to Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.