Ava DuVernay Movies

When her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison, Ruby drops out of medical school in order to focus on her husband's well-being while he's...

This short film by Ava DuVernay celebrates a love of African-American culture, camaraderie, love and romance.

In 1989, a collective of young hip hop artists gathered at a health food café in South Central Los Angeles. Their mandate? To reject gang...

A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family's lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney...

An emotional portrait of David Oyelowo’s journey to play legendary civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Featuring behind-the-scenes...

The story of a defiant movement of women of color transforming American politics from the ground up. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm...

We know about the swing. We know about the swagger. But what most Americans don't know about Venus Williams is how she changed the course of her...

Documentary film on events that happened on August 28th in African-American history, shown at the Smithsonian African-American History Museum.

In this 30-minute interview, Oprah Winfrey sits down with director Ava DuVernay to discuss her Oscar-nominated film, historical cycles of oppression...

Writer-director Ava DuVernay's short drama concerns a poor, struggling single mother whose trip with her three children to a 99-cent store in Los...

This award winning documentary, narrated by Lou Reed, explores the breadth and depth of Occupy Wall Street and how it quickly grew from a small park...

Oprah Winfrey talks with the exonerated men once known as the Central Park Five, plus the cast and producers who tell their story in "When They See...

'Compton in C Minor' is a meditation on the gang capital of the world from a hometown girl's point of view. Frustrated by negative portrayals of the...

A visual celebration of the beauty, strength, perseverance and spirit of the Black community in these troubling times.