African American Movies

The Black Contribution – Literature and Theater 1978 is a rare documentary highlighting the voices and cultural impact of African American...

Aundrey Burno, a black youth looking down the wrong end of a murder charge -- for which a conviction could result in a lifetime in prison -- appears...

What happens when a bartender on a mission to find her cheating boyfriend gets stuck driving a drunk high-schooler home? Trans Am, emergency room,...

Tarik Shah, supremely talented Muslim American jazz bassist, endured 15 years of unjust imprisonment. Shah toured with jazz legend Betty Carter and...

World renowned journalist, and award-winning filmmaker Rahiem Shabazz presents the third installment of his docu-series Elementary Genocide: Academic...

Pata Seca (1828), a man whose back bore the whip marks of his enslavers , whose eyes held the haunted memory of being forced to breed over 200 slave...

Ben Caldwell’s Medea, a collage piece made on an animation stand and edited entirely in the camera, combines live action and rapidly edited...

In contrast to the lens that focuses exclusively on the racist traditions that are rooted in America’s social history, the moral counterweight...

In California's Bay Area, a painful memory lingers of the Port Chicago disaster of WWII, when hundreds of the Navy's first Black Sailors perished,...

A shell-shocked black soldier is cared for by a miner and his daughter when he wanders into their camp, and makes a fresh start in life with the aid...

Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale...

Eight high school students enter into an abandon movie studio to have some Halloween fun, little do they know that a wanted killer is hiding inside,...

An educational video exploring drug addiction, including footage of real-life addicts going through rehab therapy.

FOLLOW THE DRINKING GOURD is a feature documentary about the Black food justice movement. Family-friendly, funny, and moving, this 60-minute film...

"Last year in the summer, I was speaking to Kings-Lee Rose in my living room in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, about my transition. The drastic shift in...

Colors explores the bonds of a young family living in the Bronx. They are displaced after unforeseen circumstances take the family to unexpected...

Based on a True Story, we journey back to 1980 to see John King, a 10yr old African American boy, see his mother experience the Joy of Salvation,...

A documentary exploring the issue of racial identity among African-Americans through the lens of skateboarding.

The Pittsburgh History Series is an ongoing series of hour-long documentaries that highlight various parts of our city's history. Since 1988, these...

Despite Blacks making up only 7% of Madison WI's population, they are leading in so many important areas from education to politics, and are...