African American Movies
- 1996
Maceo Parker: My First Name Is Maceo
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Documentary about the life of jazz and funk saxophonist, Maceo Parker
- 1973
Medea
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Ben Caldwell’s Medea, a collage piece made on an animation stand and edited entirely in the camera, combines live action and rapidly edited...
- 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...
- 1969
Operation Breadbasket
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Actor Robert Culp narrates this special examining the use of boycotts by African-Americans as a way of obtaining jobs.
- 1952
Men Of The Forest
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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...
- 1998
Thug Life in D.C.
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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...
- 1938
Hits and Bits of 1938
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This musical comedy with an all-black cast imagines what television entertainment will be like in the near future.
- 2010
Shoegazer
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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,...
- 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...
- 1970
Everything Is Fine
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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
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Four African American families relate their experiences with adoption.
- 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
Haunted Holiday
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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A 1975 documentary short about how children perceive themselves in terms of their surroundings, family, and ethnicity.
- 1970
Notes from a Young Black Chef
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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
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Based on the traditional American folksong, this compelling tale recounts the daring adventures of one family's escape from slavery via the...