African American Movies

James Brown changed the face of American music forever. Abandoned by his parents at an early age, James Brown was a self-made man who became one of t...

Four Black transgender sex workers in Atlanta and New York City break down the walls of their profession.

A faith-based action movie about a woman who faces a choice between her abusive, drug-dealing husband and her unborn baby on the way. Her world is ful...

Ex Con Armstrong Cane (Ving Rhames) returns to home a changed man looking to take over his father's old church and congregation. The neighborhood thou...

Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's novel "Life is Hot in Cracktown".

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 fr...

In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely denied...

FLYIN' CUT SLEEVES, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted f...

An examination of the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone - the groundbreaking band led by the charismatic Sly Stone - that captures the band's...

In a collection of intimate interviews with some of America's most provocative black conservative thinkers, Uncle Tom takes a different look at being...

A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.

An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather.

In his provocative 2021 book, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, New York Times opinion columnist Charles M. Blow calls for a “reverse Great...

To receive their inheritance, business magnate Hudson Graham has mandated his surviving family members return to their homestead and spend his final h...

A 1950s Southern teen questions her faith and sexuality on the eve of her baptism when urged to repent her feelings for her best friend.

Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's short story, 'Sonny's Blues.'

Summaries Shorty's wife throws him out of the house for lying around reading detective thrillers and letting his boss Pigmeat get away with not payin...

In 1970s America, three African-American siblings on the run from the police take refuge at an abandoned Tennessee Ranch, unaware their hideout is on...

An animated satire on the question of self-image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in t...

A loose fictitious of Charlie Parker's last years and a portrait of the jazz scene in 1960's New York. A black jazz musician bent on self destruction...