African American History Movies

THE LANGUAGE YOU CRY IN tells an amazing scholarly detective story that searches for -and finds- meaningful links between African Americans and their...

How does a state with the motto “Live Free or Die” and a celebrated legacy of abolitionism confront and understand its participation in slavery, segre...

A documentary that chronicles the rise and decline of the black-owned ethnic beauty industry in America.

The lives and careers of the tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams are documented, with special attention paid to the training techniques of the...

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...

The story of Dr. George Washington Carver (1864-1943),black educator and horticulturist. He is perhaps most well known for developing over 140 produc...

Learn about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, on the one hundredth anniversary of the crime, and how the community of Tulsa is coming to terms with its pa...

a short, narrative biopic that tells the story of Guion Bluford, as he grapples with the reality that he is to become the first African American man i...

The explosive documentary from Black Channel Films daring to ask the question "Is it still just racism or is it a race war?" NOW IS THE TIME TO ASK I...

"River of Hope" tells the story of how a former slave Mary Barnes Cabell and her children helped found the first college for African Americans in West...

World première recording of Hannibal Lokumbe's 'spritatorio' Can You Hear God Crying, which combines jazz, gospel and chamber music with West African...

The first in-depth analysis of the unspoken ethnic component behind the most devastating socio-economic movement in America today.

African-American gravesites and burial grounds for enslaved persons have been lost or are disappearing throughout the South, through neglect and natur...

A Black American is troubled by the legacy of American slavery and the misuse of Christianity to justify it. He travels throughout Texas discovering h...

Orange Mound is a southeast Memphis neighborhood with a surprising legacy. With roots going back to the time of plantations and slavery, Orange Mound...

Stepping is a dance form that can be found across the country at virtually every college with a substantial African American enrollment. Stepping is p...

The history of Chicago's African-American community told like never before -- through the voices of its leading citizens, scholars, artists, politicia...

Black people face a lot of problems, but the root cause of those issues is our lack of businesses. 7 A.M. is the first documentary ever that talks to...