African American Movies

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

Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)

Despite Blacks making up only 7% of Madison WI's population, they are leading in so many important areas from education to politics, and are...

Four African American families relate their experiences with adoption.

“The Singer: A Montford Point Marine” tells the story of Henry Charles Johnson, one of the first African Americans in the U.S. Marine...

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Pata Seca (1828), a man whose back bore the whip marks of his enslavers , whose eyes held the haunted memory of being forced to breed over 200 slave...

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

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