Charles Burnett Movies

After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.

Sa-I-Gu, literally translated in Korean as April 29, is the day of the 1992 Los Angeles riots or uprising. Three months after the events, the...

Tells the poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is the...

Part of a multi-platform project highlighted by an hour long documentary about black filmmakers who worked and studied at UCLA between 1965 and the...

A teenage boy leaves a moment of boredom while his father works on his old car, and the mother wishes to go out for a stroll around the block. One...

Looks at the United States as it becomes an increasingly diverse nation. Tracing the history of significant changes in the Immigration and...

Charlie Banks, chronically unemployed, struggles to find dignity and a meaning for life in the impoverished Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts.

A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the...

An African American woman living away from her family in Los Angeles yearns to be recognized for more than her physical attributes. In cultivating...

Filmmaker Robert Townsend executive-produced the following fifty-six-minute program for Criterion’s Meet the Filmmakers series in 2018. In it,...

A woman in a Hollywood dubbing studio struggles with race and preconceptions. The short film depicts the life of an African American woman passing...

This video work intermingles fiction with actuality in a poignant confrontation with homelessness.

What does it mean to be Black in America in the 21st century? The recently formed Black American film group TNEG™ has set out to elucidate this...

With dreams of fame and fortune, Faith goes to Washington where she quickly discovers that the life of a budding starlet can be tougher than the...

A Little League baseball game becomes the unlikely context for this lyrical drama about memory and loss, told from the perspective of a...

A single mother ekes out a living from welfare check to welfare check, struggling to provide for her daughter.

Director Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, My Brother's Wedding, To Sleep with Anger) presents a tale about a young boy's encounter with his family...

A musician spends New Year's Day trying to help his friend pay the rent.

The story of Dorothy and her husband T.C. He is a discharged Vietnam veteran who thought he would return home to a "hero's welcome." Instead he is...