African American Movies

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

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

In California's Bay Area, a painful memory lingers of the Port Chicago disaster of WWII, when hundreds of the Navy's first Black Sailors perished,...

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

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

A romantic comedy about a man's wife that has a closet secret literally. When James begins to work for the company that rents Closet Spaces, he finds...

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

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

Indianapolis has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country. Night School follows three adult students living in the city’s...

The untold true story: The rise and fall of the greatest funk band ever, Parliament Funkadelic.

When Zeke attends a cookout with his estranged father, Nick, he initially struggles to feel comfortable with his boisterous black family. After...

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

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...

A struggling black college grad wakes up to find that reparations have finally been paid to descendants of slaves in America. With this new found...

An African-American family in Georgia works to save money for a power saw. Includes depictions of timber harvest techniques and process. Film made in...

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

This production was originally staged for the Pepsico Summerfare Festival, The International Performing Arts Festival of the State University of New...

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

"Golds" follows Mercy, a young boy who lives in a poor neighborhood with his ill mom who can not afford the medical attention she needs. Mercy comes...

An African-American teenager grapples with his sexual identity on the night Barack Obama is elected President and Proposition 8 — the...