Black History Movies

Maurice Hines, a charming, gay African-American entertainer navigates the complications of show business while grieving the loss of his more famous,...

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

Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, this documentary tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent...

Green Flake, a southern slave, joins Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as a child. Later on in his life he is sent to pave the way to what...

From his Memphis studio, Ernest Withers’ nearly 2 million images were a treasured record of Black history but his legacy was complicated by...

When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors...

More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these...

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.

The little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city in 1898 — the...

Realizing he may have sheltered his son for too long, Brian begrudgingly agrees to send his son B.J. on a college tour with his grandfather in the...

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...

A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries—and path of promise toward the American dream—Black colleges and...

The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.

In 1936, 18 African American athletes dubbed the "black auxiliary" by Hitler defied Nazi Aryan Supremacy and Jim Crow Racism to win hearts and medals...

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

The history of warfare as it relates to global Black society, broken down into 7 chapters that examines the ways the system of racism wages warfare...

The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.

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

Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for...

Country music has always been Black music. For Love & Country examines the genre's past through the lens of a new generation of Black artists...