African American Movies

  • 2009
    Coming Back for More

    Coming Back for More

    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...

    Coming Back for More
  • 1928
    Absent

    Absent

    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...

    Absent
  • 2017
    Remembering Port Chicago

    Remembering Port Chicago

    Remembering Port Chicago

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    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,...

    Remembering Port Chicago
  • 2016
    Closet Space: The Movie

    Closet Space: The Movie

    Closet Space: The Movie

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    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...

    Closet Space: The Movie
  • 2018
    Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime

    Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime

    Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime

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    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...

    Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime
  • 2017
    Pride of the Buffalo Soldier

    Pride of the Buffalo Soldier

    Pride of the Buffalo Soldier

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    African American soldiers throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries faced discrimination and segregation, yet many still chose to fight for their...

    Pride of the Buffalo Soldier
  • 2010
    Shoegazer

    Shoegazer

    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,...

    Shoegazer
  • 1970
    Notes from a Young Black Chef

    Notes from a Young Black Chef

    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...

    Notes from a Young Black Chef
  • 1990
    Follow the Drinking Gourd

    Follow the Drinking Gourd

    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...

    Follow the Drinking Gourd
  • 2016
    America's Untold Journey: 450 Years of the African American Experience

    America's Untold Journey: 450 Years of the African American Experience

    America's Untold Journey: 450 Years of the African American Experience

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    Chronicles over four centuries of African American influence on the development of the modern-day United States. Before Plymouth Rock and Jamestown,...

    America's Untold Journey: 450 Years of the African American Experience
  • 2016
    The Blackboard

    The Blackboard

    The Blackboard

    02016HD

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

    The Blackboard
  • 1991
    Wylie Avenue Days

    Wylie Avenue Days

    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...

    Wylie Avenue Days
  • 1970
    Everything Is Fine

    Everything Is Fine

    Everything Is Fine

    01970HD

    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...

    Everything Is Fine
  • 1978
    Everybody Needs a Forever Home

    Everybody Needs a Forever Home

    Everybody Needs a Forever Home

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    Four African American families relate their experiences with adoption.

    Everybody Needs a Forever Home
  • 1970
    Haunted Holiday

    Haunted Holiday

    Haunted Holiday

    01970HD

    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,...

    Haunted Holiday
  • 1976
    The Black Indians of New Orleans

    The Black Indians of New Orleans

    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...

    The Black Indians of New Orleans
  • 1973
    Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison

    Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison

    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...

    Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison
  • 1971
    Attica Interviews

    Attica Interviews

    Attica Interviews

    01971HD

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

    Attica Interviews
  • 1908
    Nellie, the Beautiful Housemaid

    Nellie, the Beautiful Housemaid

    Nellie, the Beautiful Housemaid

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    Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)

    Nellie, the Beautiful Housemaid
  • 1975
    Being Me

    Being Me

    Being Me

    01975HD

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

    Being Me