African American Movies
- 2009
Coming Back for More
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Funk legend Sly Stone disappeared from the limelight for more than 20 years. Musicians and the media tried to find the recluse but failed. In 2005...
- 1928
Absent
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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...
- 2017
Remembering Port Chicago
Remembering Port Chicago02017HD
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,...
- 2016
Closet Space: The Movie
Closet Space: The Movie02016HD
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...
- 2018
Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime
Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime02018HD
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...
- 2017
Pride of the Buffalo Soldier
Pride of the Buffalo Soldier02017HD
African American soldiers throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries faced discrimination and segregation, yet many still chose to fight for their...
- 2010
Shoegazer
Shoegazer02010HD
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,...
- 1970
Notes from a Young Black Chef
Notes from a Young Black Chef01970HD
Based on Kwame Onwuachi's memoir which tells his unprecedented journey from childhood in the Bronx with a mostly single mother to opening a...
- 1990
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Follow the Drinking Gourd01990HD
Based on the traditional American folksong, this compelling tale recounts the daring adventures of one family's escape from slavery via the...
- 2016
America's Untold Journey: 450 Years of the African American Experience
America's Untold Journey: 450 Years of the African American Experience02016HD
Chronicles over four centuries of African American influence on the development of the modern-day United States. Before Plymouth Rock and Jamestown,...
- 2016
The Blackboard
The Blackboard02016HD
A documentary exploring the issue of racial identity among African-Americans through the lens of skateboarding.
- 1991
Wylie Avenue Days
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The Pittsburgh History Series is an ongoing series of hour-long documentaries that highlight various parts of our city's history. Since 1988, these...
- 1970
Everything Is Fine
Everything Is Fine01970HD
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...
- 1978
Everybody Needs a Forever Home
Everybody Needs a Forever Home01978HD
Four African American families relate their experiences with adoption.
- 1970
Haunted Holiday
Haunted Holiday01970HD
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,...
- 1976
The Black Indians of New Orleans
The Black Indians of New Orleans01976HD
“This classic award-winning documentary is the first definitive treatment of the origins and rituals of the Black Mardi Gras Indians of New...
- 1973
Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison
Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison01973HD
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...
- 1971
Attica Interviews
Attica Interviews01971HD
Portable Channel, a community documentary group in Rochester, New York, was one of the first small format video centers to have an ongoing...
- 1908
Nellie, the Beautiful Housemaid
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Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)
- 1975
Being Me
Being Me01975HD
A 1975 documentary short about how children perceive themselves in terms of their surroundings, family, and ethnicity.