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Daughters of the Dust

1991 · directed by Julie Dash · 112 min
24,483 feet · Prominence
667th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw32

Lifetime worldwide gross $2m, re-releases included; about $4m in 2026 money.

Rank8,133 of 11,051In 1991137 of 176

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise88

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics88 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so there is little headroom for awards to claim. The score is the critics' verdict, nearly untouched.

Legacy64

Judged directly: Registry and Sight & Sound landmark.

Verdict64 of 100IMDb6.6 from 3kWikipedia4k views a monthAge35 years

On the listsNational Film RegistrySight & Soundevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 448 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 32 praise 88 legacy 64averages 61, placing it at24,483 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Trula Hoosier▲ Cora Lee Day▲ Alva Rogers▲ Barbara O. Jones

In these careers — elevation for this film

Cora Lee Day18,240 ftAlva Rogers18,039 ftBarbara O. Jones18,029 ftTrula Hoosier17,955 ftTommy Redmond Hicks17,898 ftKaycee Moore17,894 ft