African American Movies

In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely denied...

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...

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

Actor Robert Culp narrates this special examining the use of boycotts by African-Americans as a way of obtaining jobs.

A teenage boy reluctantly turns to the streets to earn $6,000 a month for his mother's cancer medicine and quickly discovers that street money does...

Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of Noble Sissle's incredible journey that spans "The...

Don Letts's hilarious and colourful profile of the godfather of funk, whose 50-year career has defined the genre. From his 1950s days running a...

Two lovers learn they've known each other over many life times and that this is their last life together. They don't have long to live and must clean...

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...

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

A young woman in a photography class begins taking pictures of black men out of fear they will soon be extinct.

In his provocative 2021 book, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, New York Times opinion columnist Charles M. Blow calls for a...

The James Brown Story

The untold true story: The rise and fall of the greatest funk band ever, Parliament Funkadelic.

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,...

Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1867 sculpture Forever Free, to the work of...

Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's short story, 'Sonny's Blues.'

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,...

A look into the 19th century American-Indian Wars, Manifest Destiny, and the conflicts between Apache tribes and the African-American Buffalo soldier...

Based on the traditional American folksong, this compelling tale recounts the daring adventures of one family's escape from slavery via the...