African American Movies

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

Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)

KYRIE and SHAKA come from two different worlds. Kyrie insists that no one picks him up directly from his home in East Cleveland and Shaka, who is far...

An oral history documentary of people of color at Miami University during its Public Ivy period—from 1970 to the early 2000s.

A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries.

In the old American South, a black teen with a white adoptive family becomes curious about her roots after hearing birds for the first time.

A look at three U.S. cities, which were part of many communities that violently forced African American families to flee in post-reconstruction...

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...

Summer 2017, a string of brutal police killings of young African American men has sent shockwaves throughout the country. A Black community in the...

This musical comedy with an all-black cast imagines what television entertainment will be like in the near future.

Full of nostalgia and charm, Kid Rock is an exposé of a young black man, Tadros Eyob’s journey into rock climbing in British Columbia.

A gritty look at two friends differing viewpoints as they react to a video one of them has made.

A struggling black college grad wakes up to find that reparations have finally been paid to descendants of slaves in America. With this new found...

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

When Zeke attends a cookout with his estranged father, Nick, he initially struggles to feel comfortable with his boisterous black family. After...

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

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

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

“This classic award-winning documentary is the first definitive treatment of the origins and rituals of the Black Mardi Gras Indians of New...

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