African American Movies

An idealistic young man is torn between a sultry Chicago nightclub owner and a Scottish South Dakotan farmgirl.

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

World renowned journalist, and award-winning filmmaker Rahiem Shabazz presents the third installment of his docu-series Elementary Genocide: Academic...

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

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

In California's Bay Area, a painful memory lingers of the Port Chicago disaster of WWII, when hundreds of the Navy's first Black Sailors perished,...

"Twisted By Love" is a psychological thriller about a love triangle that spirals into jealousy, betrayal, and murder during a couple's weekend...

Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale...

“Mammy is washing her little pickaninny. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub full of foaming suds.” (Edison film catalog)

Tarik Shah, supremely talented Muslim American jazz bassist, endured 15 years of unjust imprisonment. Shah toured with jazz legend Betty Carter and...

A documentary exploring the issue of racial identity among African-Americans through the lens of skateboarding.

Sightings is a sexy, humorous short film about the trials of romantic connection. Two beautiful, urbane African American lesbians first sight and...

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

Based on a True Story, we journey back to 1980 to see John King, a 10yr old African American boy, see his mother experience the Joy of Salvation,...

Pata Seca (1828), a man whose back bore the whip marks of his enslavers , whose eyes held the haunted memory of being forced to breed over 200 slave...

A young woman named Her meets a stranger in the park named He, who recounts a surreal and melancholic past. They share stories and a strange...

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...

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

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

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