African American Movies

Actor Glynn Turman makes his Broadway debut at 12 years old in the original production of “A Raisin in the Sun” opposite Sidney Poitier and becomes a...

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...

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

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 cou...

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

The history of warfare as it relates to global Black society, broken down into 7 chapters that examines the ways the system of racism wages warfare fr...

In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely denied...

Based on the traditional American folksong, this compelling tale recounts the daring adventures of one family's escape from slavery via the Undergroun...

"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 u...

Based on A Few Days Full of Trouble by Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr. and Christopher Benson, the feature doc will explore two parallel tracks of the Ti...

A young woman in a photography class begins taking pictures of black men out of fear they will soon be extinct.

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

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...

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

An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather.

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 o...

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

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...

Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924),the first Black woman to mount a retrospective at the...

Ben Caldwell’s Medea, a collage piece made on an animation stand and edited entirely in the camera, combines live action and rapidly edited still imag...