Over the last few years, the work of playwright August Wilson has been the source of some pretty fantastic films. 2016s Fences became the third film directed by Denzel Washington, which earned a Best Picture nomination and won Viola Davis a much-deserved Best Supporting Actress award.

He’s not in The Piano Lesson (now on Netflix), but we’ll lead with Denzel Washington anyway. This is the third August Wilson play Washington has helped adapt to film – he produced Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,

A Romare Bearden print served as a starting point for the American playwright's 1987 drama, which follows a Black family's struggle to decide the fate of an ancestral heirloom