Black People Movies

A group of African American cowboys sing the title track.

"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...

Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946.

The Other Side of the Atlantic is a documentary that builts a bridge in the ocean that separates Brazil and Africa. The film tackles the cultural exch...

Ben Caldwell’s Medea, a collage piece made on an animation stand and edited entirely in the camera, combines live action and rapidly edited still imag...

Freedom means only one thing: riding your dirt bike in the street, front wheel aimed at the sky.

Sarah, upon accidentally discovering time travel through the use of a drug, must now travel back one year into the past to save her son from a fatal a...

In 1920, a young African-American woman sets off to Africa to find a tree that promises eternal life.

"PUSHOUT" is a feature length film confronting the criminalization and miseducation of African American girls that has led to their alarming high scho...

Documentary short that explores the meaning of the locals’ African identity through the Carnival festivities.

A group of miners (including a sole black worker) exits the colliery gates.

Jonathan and Romario are two Afro-Ecuadorian children from the Chota Valley, one of the poorest regions of Ecuador. Their fate can be one of two: to b...

Peter Blackman, founder of Steel 'n' Skin, talks about this pan-African group, which takes African culture to British schools. The film follows the gr...

When a Black man is viciously assaulted by police right outside their window, all of the guests at a dinner party seem to consider the attack unremark...

French actors Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Aïssa Maïga, Sonia Rolland, Deborah Lukumuena, Marie-France Malonga, Gary Dourdan and others speak up on the reali...

Radical resistance in the postwar British Caribbean community, from the 1948 Nationality Act to the 1958 Brixton riots.

A short documentary film that delves into the life of Eleggua Luna, a karmairi-mokana-motilona Afro-Caribbean trans woman born in Cartagena de Indias,...