African American Movies

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

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,...

An educational video exploring drug addiction, including footage of real-life addicts going through rehab therapy.

Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1867 sculpture Forever Free, to the work of...

To receive their inheritance, business magnate Hudson Graham has mandated his surviving family members return to their homestead and spend his final...

"Last year in the summer, I was speaking to Kings-Lee Rose in my living room in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, about my transition. The drastic shift in...

Film commissioned by the Chicago-based publisher of Negro Digest, Ebony, Tan, and Jet to encourage advertisers to reach out to African American...

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...

A young woman named Her meets a stranger in the park named He, who recounts a surreal and melancholic past. They share stories and a strange...

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

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

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...

Four African American families relate their experiences with adoption.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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