African American Movies

  • 2016
    America's Untold Journey: 450 Years of the African American Experience

    America's Untold Journey: 450 Years of the African American Experience

    America's Untold Journey: 450 Years of the African American Experience

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    Chronicles over four centuries of African American influence on the development of the modern-day United States. Before Plymouth Rock and Jamestown,...

    America's Untold Journey: 450 Years of the African American Experience
  • 2023
    Kid Rock

    Kid Rock

    Kid Rock

    02023HD

    Full of nostalgia and charm, Kid Rock is an exposé of a young black man, Tadros Eyob’s journey into rock climbing in British Columbia.

    Kid Rock
  • 2017
    The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War

    The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War

    The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War

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    Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like everyone else. They saw fighting heroically in...

    The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2010
    Shoegazer

    Shoegazer

    Shoegazer

    02010HD

    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
  • 1954
    The Secret of Selling the Negro

    The Secret of Selling the Negro

    The Secret of Selling the Negro

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    Film commissioned by the Chicago-based publisher of Negro Digest, Ebony, Tan, and Jet to encourage advertisers to reach out to African American...

    The Secret of Selling the Negro
  • 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.
  • 1993
    Flyin' Cut Sleeves

    Flyin' Cut Sleeves

    Flyin' Cut Sleeves

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    FLYIN' CUT SLEEVES, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted...

    Flyin' Cut Sleeves
  • 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
  • 2021
    Trap Flix Party

    Trap Flix Party

    Trap Flix Party

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    A chilling anthology of three trap genre stories including a polyamorous relationship that’s not quite right and a funeral that becomes a...

    Trap Flix Party
  • 2008
    Mad Love

    Mad Love

    Mad Love

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    A young woman named Her meets a stranger in the park named He, who recounts a surreal and melancholic past. They share stories and a strange...

    Mad Love
  • 1971
    Attica Interviews

    Attica Interviews

    Attica Interviews

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    Portable Channel, a community documentary group in Rochester, New York, was one of the first small format video centers to have an ongoing...

    Attica Interviews
  • 2012
    Soul Food Junkies

    Soul Food Junkies

    Soul Food Junkies

    82012HD

    To many African Americans, soul food is sacrament, ritual, and a key expression of cultural identity. But does this traditional cuisine do more harm...

    Soul Food Junkies
  • 2022
    Final 48

    Final 48

    Final 48

    02022HD

    To receive their inheritance, business magnate Hudson Graham has mandated his surviving family members return to their homestead and spend his final...

    Final 48
  • 1995
    Sightings

    Sightings

    Sightings

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    Sightings is a sexy, humorous short film about the trials of romantic connection. Two beautiful, urbane African American lesbians first sight and...

    Sightings
  • 1970
    Hazel

    Hazel

    Hazel

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    Hazel is a romantic comedy that explores the journey of a young woman navigating her personal relationships and discovering the importance of...

    Hazel
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2020
    Colors

    Colors

    Colors

    02020HD

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

    Colors