African American Movies

  • 1978
    The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre

    The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre

    The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre

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

    The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre
  • 1998
    Thug Life in D.C.

    Thug Life in D.C.

    Thug Life in D.C.

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    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...

    Thug Life in D.C.
  • 2010
    Shoegazer

    Shoegazer

    Shoegazer

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    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,...

    Shoegazer
  • 2025
    Tarik Shah: Don't Play Like Them

    Tarik Shah: Don't Play Like Them

    Tarik Shah: Don't Play Like Them

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

    Tarik Shah: Don't Play Like Them
  • 2017
    Elementary Genocide 3

    Elementary Genocide 3

    Elementary Genocide 3

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

    Elementary Genocide 3
  • 2026
    Black Men in Uniform

    Black Men in Uniform

    Black Men in Uniform

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    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...

    Black Men in Uniform
  • 1973
    Medea

    Medea

    Medea

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

    Medea
  • 2018
    An American Story: Race Amity and The Other Tradition

    An American Story: Race Amity and The Other Tradition

    An American Story: Race Amity and The Other Tradition

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

    An American Story: Race Amity and The Other Tradition
  • 2017
    Remembering Port Chicago

    Remembering Port Chicago

    Remembering Port Chicago

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    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,...

    Remembering Port Chicago
  • 1928
    Absent

    Absent

    Absent

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    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...

    Absent
  • 1928
    Fieldwork Footage

    Fieldwork Footage

    Fieldwork Footage

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

    Fieldwork Footage
  • 1970
    Haunted Holiday

    Haunted Holiday

    Haunted Holiday

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    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,...

    Haunted Holiday
  • 1974
    Dead Is Dead

    Dead Is Dead

    Dead Is Dead

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

    Dead Is Dead
  • 2019
    Follow the Drinking Gourd

    Follow the Drinking Gourd

    Follow the Drinking Gourd

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

    Follow the Drinking Gourd
  • 2025
    Black Trans Masculine Experience

    Black Trans Masculine Experience

    Black Trans Masculine Experience

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    "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...

    Black Trans Masculine Experience
  • 2020
    Colors

    Colors

    Colors

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

    Colors
  • 2021
    The Youngest Evangelist

    The Youngest Evangelist

    The Youngest Evangelist

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    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,...

    The Youngest Evangelist
  • 2016
    The Blackboard

    The Blackboard

    The Blackboard

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

    The Blackboard
  • 1991
    Wylie Avenue Days

    Wylie Avenue Days

    Wylie Avenue Days

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

    Wylie Avenue Days
  • 2022
    Leaders of Madison’s Black Renaissance

    Leaders of Madison’s Black Renaissance

    Leaders of Madison’s Black Renaissance

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    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...

    Leaders of Madison’s Black Renaissance