Directed by Spike Lee
The movie that made Denzel a star, and rekindled the cult of one of America’s great black heroes (in the early ’90s you could hardly move for baseball caps with a big ‘X’ on the front). Denzel plays the black activist, radical and convert to Islam, striding with purpose out of the small-time streets of Omaha, Nebraska and into the halls of history.
Denzel-est moment The ‘ballot or the bullet’ speech. ‘We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us!’