African American Movies

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

Combines footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era to re-tell the story of Noble Sissle's incredible journey that spans "The Harlem...

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

A chilling anthology of three trap genre stories including a polyamorous relationship that’s not quite right and a funeral that becomes a...

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)