10 Films That Stick It To The Man

10. Black Dynamite

Sticking it to The Man was at the heart of Blaxploitation pictures but this knowing spoof goes one better and has its lead character follow a deadly trail that leads all the way to the White House.

Inspired by such Blaxploitation icons as Richard Roundtree and Fred Williamson, Black Dynamite (Michael Jai White) is your typical ex-Vietnam vet/ former CIA operative/ one-man army who uncovers a sinister plot involving Anaconda Malt Liquor, which has been formulated to shrink the manhood of African-American men.

Who could be behind such a diabolical scheme? Why, it’s none other than President Richard Nixon, who Black Dynamite takes down in a kung fu fight inside the Oval Office.

The movie’s plot owes a debt to Three The Hard Way (1974), where Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly try to stop a neo-Nazi from adding a serum lethal only to African-Americans to the water supply. Though played straight, the story also served as the basis for another spoof, 2002’s Undercover Brother.