T.M. Landry, an unconventional prep school in Louisiana, receives national attention for consis...

Billie Holiday had one of the greatest voices of all time. She was a woman of breathtaking talent an...

This electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of pop culture mega-icon Grace Jones...

Kids For Cash is a riveting look behind a notorious scandal that rocked the nation. In the wake of t...

Flex Is Kings takes place in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, where high crime rates and ...

The inimitable Kathleen Collins's second film tells the story of two remarkable people, married and ...

Rabble rouser or activist? Opportunist or trailblazer? During his six-decade journey from pastoral p...

Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926&nd...

Legacy of a Dream is a 24 minute film that uses selected footage from the 180 minute Academy Award n...

Returning in 1983 to his home in Fort Worth, Texas, documentary footage and dramatic scenes recall l...

Bruk Out! looks deep inside the raw, energetic world of Jamaican Dancehall culture through the eyes ...

This collection of the works of America's legendary first African-American filmmakers is the only on...

This entirely African American-conceived and produced ensemble drama is the result of a collaboratio...

Alma’s Rainbow is a coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn...

One of the most controversial novels of its day, Richard Wright's Native Son (first published in 194...

When a Chinese-American police officer kills an innocent, unarmed Black man in a darkened stairwell ...

Poet, storyteller, actress, dancer, and passionate activist Maya Angelou gave people the freedom to ...

The feature length documentary STOP follows three years in the life of David Ourlicht, one of the fo...

A young artist living in New York, on the fringes of the financial district and its rushing crowds, ...

Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer...

Buoyed by the success of the French musical Zou Zou a year earlier, the same team created in Princes...

The golden age of tap dancing spanned the first half of the twentieth century, but by the 1950s, the...

Part psychological horror, part realist drama, this exhilarating debut feature from Shatara Michelle...

After Dontre Hamilton, a black, unarmed man diagnosed with schizophrenia, was shot 14 times and kill...

A longstanding director of ingenuity, heart and meticulous detail, Charles Burnett has earned his re...

Sprawling, immediate, and complex, Peter Nicks’s vérité documentary moves like a...

Searching for steady work, Charlie (Nate Hardman) views his chronic unemployment as a kind of spirit...

Roots music icon Chris Strachwitz is a detective of sounds, an archaeologist of deep American music...

Twenty years after the release of Nas's groundbreaking debut album Illmatic, Nas: Time is Illmatic t...

Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, KING: A FILMED RECORD...MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS is a mo...

The passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 represented not the culmination of the Civil Rights Mov...

This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable...

No conventional sports documentary, The Trials Of Muhammad Ali investigates its extraordinary and of...

Academy Award Nominee - Best Documentary Feature!Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance...

In 1983, after many long months of shooting, Charles Burnett sent his rough-cut of My Brother&r...

Drop into the electric and subversive underground dance scene known as bucking. As voguing exploded ...

Lucy Massie Phenix and Veronica Selver's documentary about Southern individuals working for social c...

2017 Academy Award® Nominee for Best Documentary Feature I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO is an examination ...