Black History Filmes
- 2022
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power22022HD
Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, this documentary tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2018
Where are the African Gods?
Where are the African Gods?02018HD
A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney...
- 2019
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back52019HD
Maurice Hines, a charming, gay African-American entertainer navigates the complications of show business while grieving the loss of his more famous,...
- 2003
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives4.82003HD
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors...
- 2022
Los Negros
Los Negros7.32022HD
Seville, Spain, 14th century. A group of black slaves brought from Africa form the Hermandad de los Negros, a Holy Week brotherhood that has survived...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2017
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities8.12017HD
A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries—and path of promise toward the American dream—Black colleges and...
- 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,...
- 2024
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found7.62024HD
More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these...
- 2022
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Is That Black Enough for You?!?7.42022HD
A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new superstars to the craft of rising auteurs.
- 1977
Greased Lightning
Greased Lightning6.31977HD
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.
- 2004
Stone Mansion
Stone Mansion02004HD
An affluent black couple deal with the envitability of a white mob coming to kill them during the 1921 Oklahoma race riots.
- 2016
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice72016HD
In 1936, 18 African American athletes dubbed the "black auxiliary" by Hitler defied Nazi Aryan Supremacy and Jim Crow Racism to win hearts and medals...
- 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...
- 2008
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans02008HD
The true story of the neighborhood that inspired David Simon's fictional HBO television series "Tremé", from slave revolts and underground...
- 2023
Stamped from the Beginning
Stamped from the Beginning6.3422023HD
Using innovative animation and expert insights, this documentary based on Ibram X. Kendi's bestseller explores the history of racist ideas in America.