Black History Movies
- 2019
Hidden Colors 5: The Art of Black Warfare
Hidden Colors 5: The Art of Black Warfare6.32019HD
The history of warfare as it relates to global Black society, broken down into 7 chapters that examines the ways the system of racism wages warfare...
- 1994
A Great Day in Harlem
A Great Day in Harlem6.21994HD
Art Kane, now deceased, coordinated a group photograph of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the year 1958, for a piece in Esquire magazine. Just...
- 2022
The Picture Taker
The Picture Taker02022HD
From his Memphis studio, Ernest Withers’ nearly 2 million images were a treasured record of Black history but his legacy was complicated by...
- 1966
The Strolling '20s
The Strolling '20s01966HD
Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier travel down memory lane to see what life was like back in the 1920s. Harry Belafonte introduces this musical,...
- 2014
Circle Unbroken: A Gullah Journey from Africa to America
Circle Unbroken: A Gullah Journey from Africa to America02014HD
75% of all enslaved Africans coming to America came in through Beaufort and the sea islands of South Carolina. This beautiful and picturesque tourist...
- 2022
For Love & Country
For Love & Country22022HD
Country music has always been Black music. For Love & Country examines the genre's past through the lens of a new generation of Black artists...
- 2020
Green Flake
Green Flake02020HD
Green Flake, a southern slave, joins Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as a child. Later on in his life he is sent to pave the way to what...
- 1970
Joe's College Road Trip
Joe's College Road Trip01970HD
Realizing he may have sheltered his son for too long, Brian begrudgingly agrees to send his son B.J. on a college tour with his grandfather in the...
- 2024
In Search of Bass Reeves
In Search of Bass Reeves5.72024HD
By the end of his illustrious career, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves may well have been the preeminent lawman of the Old West. He brought upwards of...
- 2018
Congo Cabaret
Congo Cabaret02018HD
Harlem, 1926. A “sweetman” Zeddy, living off a woman, brings a country girl he’s trying to impress to a gay-owned cabaret. There he...
- 2024
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
American Coup: Wilmington 189802024HD
The little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city in 1898 — the...
- 2023
TETHERS
TETHERS102023HD
Prepare for an eye-opening journey into the heart of identity and division. 'Tethers' is a groundbreaking interview-style documentary that delves...
- 2020
The Ball Method
The Ball Method02020HD
Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for...
- 1996
John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk
John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk11996HD
John Henrik Clarke talks about Black history.
- 2024
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri02024HD
The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through interviews recorded in the late '90s.
- 2018
Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America
Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America02018HD
The Movie "Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America" uncovers the true identity of the Children of Israel by proving the true ethnicity of Abraham,...
- 2003
A Century of Black Cinema
A Century of Black Cinema02003HD
This film highlights moments in the long and rich African American cinema history in relation to social and political events, and how it affected...
- 2020
Sapelo
Sapelo62020HD
Sapelo is a feature-length documentary film that journeys within a unique American island to tell the story of two young brothers, their adoptive...
- 2023
Founder Girls
Founder Girls02023HD
In this kaleidoscopic ode to girlhood, young campers find freedom, sisterhood, and themselves at a historically Black summer camp.
- 2021
JazzTown
JazzTown02021HD
Denver’s iconic and Grammy Award-winning musicians reveal the secrets of their success and longevity in the music business while warning the...