African American Movies

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

African American soldiers throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries faced discrimination and segregation, yet many still chose to fight for their...

“This classic award-winning documentary is the first definitive treatment of the origins and rituals of the Black Mardi Gras Indians of New...

Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt explores what it means to be a Black man in America. Traveling to more than fifteen cities and towns across the...

This 1979 documentary depicts the daily life of gangs in the South Bronx. It deals primarily with two African American and Puerto Rican gangs known...

On a sunny day in 2004, a drug dealer with a secret gets stuck babysitting his girlfriend's 9 year old cousin.

An animated satire on the question of self-image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in...

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

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...

A powerful documentary starring Morgan Freeman about the genesis of The Blues in the South and the music spreading around the world. Morgan Freeman...

An exploration of the lives of six queer Michigan teens during the first 100 days of Trump's second term and the effect the Trump administration has...

A documentary following the life of Olaudah Equiano, based on his autobiography "The Interesting Narration of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or...

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...

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

KYRIE and SHAKA come from two different worlds. Kyrie insists that no one picks him up directly from his home in East Cleveland and Shaka, who is far...

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

Summaries Shorty's wife throws him out of the house for lying around reading detective thrillers and letting his boss Pigmeat get away with not...

Summer 2017, a string of brutal police killings of young African American men has sent shockwaves throughout the country. A Black community in the...

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

A documentary on funk and P-funk and the bands and artists that made it all happen: James Brown, Sly Stone, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Maurice...