It is mentioned that a woman, and many other women have been raped.

Malcolm and a black woman kiss and then make out while laying on a beach.

There is a scene where a woman is unchaning into her clothes. Only the back is shown and no nudity or backside is shown.

Some sensuality and sexually suggestive dialogue, although there are no explicit depictions of sexual activity.

There is a scene between Malcolm X and a white woman, Sophia, early on in the movie. Nothing explicit is shown; the two of them are making out in the backseat of a car.

Malcolm is hit in the stomach with a baton.

Brother Johnson was beaten as a bystander by police and he is seen bleeding profusely and is hospitalized.

Real-life footage of brutality and even a lynched man hanging from a light post are shown.

Real footage from the 50's or 60's of black men and women being sprayed by fire hoses throwing into concrete.

Footage of black people being beaten and harassed for sitting at white-only restaurants. A man is thrown over the counter. Another is being punched multiple times without resisting. All the footage is real footage from the time.

A man is shot in the arm with blood spray briefly.

In a bar two men get into a disagreement and on hits the other in the head with a glass bottle. Minor blood.

The main character plays Russian roulette and forces another man to do the same. No shots are fired.

Some scenes depicting violent beatings, e.g. opening credits Rodney King tape, some with blood and a man was beaten by police officers (unseen but he looks bloody when wheeled out of a police station).

Houses are burned and firebombed, including both Malcolm's childhood home in Nebraska and his adulthood family home in New York City.

PG-13 violence type: blood and brutal.

'H*ll' is said at least twice.

'Sh*t' is said at least three times, and 'bullsh*t' is said four times in one scene.

'Wh*re' is said.

'D*mn' is said at least twice.

'Godd*mn' is said six times

'B*stard' is said.

'Cracker' is said as a racist term.

'*ss' is said.

'B*tch' is said at least twice.

'Nigger' is said at least 50 times, often in a racist context.

'Negro' is said many times, which may be offensive to some.

'Boy' and 'coon' are said in degrading or racist manners.

'F*ck' is said three times, including one paired with 'mother'.

Use of 'Jesus' and 'Jesus Christ' as exclamations.

Two men and a woman snort cocaine and act high. Later, one man implies another man and himself should use some cocaine, but the second man declines.

Several scenes take place in bar where the main character smokes and drinks.

Several minor characters smoke throughout.

A man is huddled in a corner of an asylum after it is mentioned he is withdrawing from heroin addiction.

Klansmen set fire to the home of a man and his family while they are inside, including small children. They tell them to leave town and he fires his gun at them, intentionally missing.

Klansman riding on horseback threaten a woman in her home with her children.

The main character is involved in illegal activities, including illegal gambling, drugs, theft, as well as carrying a gun.

The climax is very violent and disturbing.

There are intense scenes of threatened or on-screen violence; the entirety of the film's subject matter.