African American Movies

After Phyllis discovers that her daughter Cecilia can read, she’s torn between abiding to her slave owner’s commands or encouraging her daughter that...

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

Filmed on the rooftops of lower Manhattan, this performance film features the original Last Poets performing 28 numbers adapted from their legendary C...

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

Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of Noble Sissle's incredible journey that spans "The H...

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

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 resi...

An educational video exploring drug addiction, including footage of real-life addicts going through rehab therapy.

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

Four African American families relate their experiences with adoption.

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

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

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

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

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, f...

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...

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

Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)

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