African-American Studies

Accepted

When an explosive New York Times exposé questions a school’s legitimacy, students ...

View Details

Billie

Billie showcases an American legend, capturing her depth and complexity through the voices of those ...

View Details

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

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

View Details

Kids for Cash

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

View Details

Flex is Kings

Flex is Kings is a riveting and awe-inspiring look inside the world of Brooklyn street dancing known...

View Details

Losing Ground

Decades after her death, Kathleen Collins has finally been rediscovered as a groundbreaking writer, ...

View Details

Loudmouth

LOUDMOUTH is the definitive look at the life and legacy of the Reverend Al Sharpton.

View Details

Nationtime

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

View Details

Legacy of a Dream

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

View Details

Ornette: Made in America

Ground-breaking filmmaker Shirley Clarke combined forces with Ornette Coleman to create this dazzlin...

View Details

Bruk Out

Bruk Out! follows six outspoken and unique female dancers from around the globe as they overcome adv...

View Details

Pioneers of African-American Cinema

A monumental collection of historically vital films, digitally mastered in HD using archival element...

View Details

Personal Problems

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

View Details

Alma's Rainbow

Ayoka Chenzira’s overlooked classic, newly restored and ripe for rediscovery, is a coming-of-a...

View Details

Native Son

Richard Wright adapts and stars in this film version of his watershed novel about a poor African-Ame...

View Details

Down a Dark Stairwell

A Chinese-American police officer kills an unarmed Black man in a dark stairwell of a New York City ...

View Details

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

The first documentary about Maya Angelou celebrates her life and reveals new insight into the l...

View Details

STOP

STOP places the stop and frisk controversy in the context of a long history of civil rights, with pr...

View Details

Sidewalk Stories

A young artist living in New York City tries to make a living sketching passers-by on the street. He...

View Details

Jazz on a Summer's Day

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

View Details

Princess Tam Tam

An ingenious shepherdess is transformed into a bogus Indian princess of a capricious French aristocr...

View Details

No Maps on My Taps

Featuring performances by tap legends Bunny Briggs, Chuck Green, and Howard “Sandman” Si...

View Details

Test Pattern

Winner of top prizes at the BlackStar and New Orleans Film Festivals, this gripping social thriller ...

View Details

The Blood is at the Doorstep

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

View Details

Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection

KILLER OF SHEEP collects the titular standout from director Charles Burnett's career as well as My B...

View Details

The Force

At a powderkeg moment in American policing, The Force goes deep inside the embattled Oakland Police ...

View Details

Bless Their Little Hearts

In this key masterpiece of the LA Rebellion, written by Charles Burnett and directed by Billy Woodbe...

View Details

This Ain't No Mouse Music

Filmmakers Chris Simon and Maureen Gosling join Chris Strachwitz for a hip-shaking stomp from New Or...

View Details

NAS: Time Is Illmatic

Time Is Illmatic is a feature length documentary film that delves deep into the making of Nas' 1994 ...

View Details

King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis

King: A Filmed Record...from Montgomery to Memphis is the landmark 3-hr documentary that chronicles ...

View Details

Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power

Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, LOWNDES COUNTY AND THE ROAD TO BLACK POW...

View Details

Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts

This illuminating documentary tells the incredible story of Bill Traylor, a former slave who turned ...

View Details

The Trials of Muhammad Ali

THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI investigates its extraordinary and often complex subject's life outside t...

View Details

Trouble the Water

My Brother's Wedding

Pierce Mundy works at his parents' South Central dry cleaners with no prospects for the future. With...

View Details

When the Beat Drops

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

View Details

You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South

Focusing the Highlander School's role in helping build grassroots movements, this documentary tells ...

View Details

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO is an examination of racism in America through the lens of James Baldwin’s...

View Details
next page