Black History Movies

How does a state with the motto “Live Free or Die” and a celebrated legacy of abolitionism confront and understand its participation in...

Art Kane, now deceased, coordinated a group photograph of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the year 1958, for a piece in Esquire magazine. Just...

Black women had extremely limited options during Jim Crow. Odessa’s story explores how an African American woman born in a time with limited...

A Mother struggles to deal with the unknown condition of her incarcerated son during the worst pandemic in over 100 years.

Nora is a young Black woman who takes a caregiving job for the McNeils, a rich white family, only to discover they’re hiding a deadly secret.

For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a...

Hebrews to Negroes 2 : Revelation is a documentary that uncovers the 'True Biblical Identity" and Ancestral Homeland of the people living in North...

An affluent black couple deal with the envitability of a white mob coming to kill them during the 1921 Oklahoma race riots.

Seville, Spain, 14th century. A group of black slaves brought from Africa form the Hermandad de los Negros, a Holy Week brotherhood that has survived...

This film highlights moments in the long and rich African American cinema history in relation to social and political events, and how it affected...

A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new superstars to the craft of rising auteurs.

John Henrik Clarke talks about Black history.

A small urban city with a gargantuan wealth of history, contributions, and changes. From the steel industry, music, politics, education, and sports;...

Henry Browne, an African American farmer, and his family are profiled in this film. The important job of a farmer during times of war is highlighted,...

This documentary captures the sounds and images of a nearly forgotten era in film history when African American filmmakers and studios created...

Using innovative animation and expert insights, this documentary based on Ibram X. Kendi's bestseller explores the history of racist ideas in America.

Sapelo is a feature-length documentary film that journeys within a unique American island to tell the story of two young brothers, their adoptive...

The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through interviews recorded in the late '90s.

Two artists from Alexandria, Virginia, revisit the town’s segregated past and tell the story of family, friendship, loss, and love through...

The Fillmore was once a thriving, vibrant, and multicultural community with one of the most prominent jazz scenes on the West Coast and hundreds of...