African American Movies

FOLLOW THE DRINKING GOURD is a feature documentary about the Black food justice movement. Family-friendly, funny, and moving, this 60-minute film...

Eight high school students enter into an abandon movie studio to have some Halloween fun, little do they know that a wanted killer is hiding inside,...

Chronicles over four centuries of African American influence on the development of the modern-day United States. Before Plymouth Rock and Jamestown,...

Two years after the riots and deaths at Attica, New York, a community day was organized at Greenhaven, a federal prison in Connecticut. The event was...

Portable Channel, a community documentary group in Rochester, New York, was one of the first small format video centers to have an ongoing...

Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)

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

A documentary exploring the issue of racial identity among African-Americans through the lens of skateboarding.

A 1975 documentary short about how children perceive themselves in terms of their surroundings, family, and ethnicity.