African American Movies

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

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...

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

Based on Kwame Onwuachi's memoir which tells his unprecedented journey from childhood in the Bronx with a mostly single mother to opening a...

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

This musical comedy with an all-black cast imagines what television entertainment will be like in the near future.

An oral history documentary of people of color at Miami University during its Public Ivy period—from 1970 to the early 2000s.

A gritty look at two friends differing viewpoints as they react to a video one of them has made.

A shell-shocked black soldier is cared for by a miner and his daughter when he wanders into their camp, and makes a fresh start in life with the aid...

Full of nostalgia and charm, Kid Rock is an exposé of a young black man, Tadros Eyob’s journey into rock climbing in British Columbia.

Colors explores the bonds of a young family living in the Bronx. They are displaced after unforeseen circumstances take the family to unexpected...

In the old American South, a black teen with a white adoptive family becomes curious about her roots after hearing birds for the first time.

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

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

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

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

A look at three U.S. cities, which were part of many communities that violently forced African American families to flee in post-reconstruction...

The Pittsburgh History Series is an ongoing series of hour-long documentaries that highlight various parts of our city's history. Since 1988, these...

Chicago, winter 1965. The Regal Theater hosts James Brown and Solomon Burke, two monuments of Soul music. Backstage, everyone's under pressure. But...

Evanston, a suburb just north of Chicago, touts its progressivism and inclusion. It was the first city in the U.S. to offer reparations for Black...