African American Filmes

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...

What happens when a bartender on a mission to find her cheating boyfriend gets stuck driving a drunk high-schooler home? Trans Am, emergency room,...

Summaries Shorty's wife throws him out of the house for lying around reading detective thrillers and letting his boss Pigmeat get away with not...

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

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

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

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

Documentary about the life of jazz and funk saxophonist, Maceo Parker

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...

Three couples meet up for a summer vacation weekend but secrets, lies, and hard truths come out to spoil the fun.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Four African American families relate their experiences with adoption.

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,...

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

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...