13 Movies That Only IMPROVE With Age

6. Do The Right Thing

Spike Lee may be hot off the mega success of the Oscar-winning BlacKkKlansman, but history will likely best remember Lee for his incredible 1989 film Do the Right Thing.

A righteously angry drama about racial tensions spilling over on a red-hot summer's day in Brooklyn, Lee's film asks complex questions about society and has lost not a drop of its relevance three decades later.

In fact, in the age of social media where our general awareness about police brutality and race-related crime is that much more amplified, a movie about a cop who chokes a black man to death really feels more relevant today.

Nothing has really changed dynamically, and Lee's examination of both the event and the fiery outrage following it holds everyone involved to account in some form or another.

As much as many like to scream about progress, a few casual glances across news headlines makes it clear that little real change has been made since '89.