African American Movies

Based on A Few Days Full of Trouble by Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr. and Christopher Benson, the feature doc will explore two parallel tracks of the Ti...

An African-American family in Georgia works to save money for a power saw. Includes depictions of timber harvest techniques and process. Film made in...

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

A shell-shocked black soldier is cared for by a miner and his daughter when he wanders into their camp, and makes a fresh start in life with the aid o...

An oral history documentary of people of color at Miami University during its Public Ivy period—from 1970 to the early 2000s.

A look at three U.S. cities, which were part of many communities that violently forced African American families to flee in post-reconstruction Americ...

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

Despite Blacks making up only 7% of Madison WI's population, they are leading in so many important areas from education to politics, and are launching...

This production was originally staged for the Pepsico Summerfare Festival, The International Performing Arts Festival of the State University of New Y...

An African-American teenager grapples with his sexual identity on the night Barack Obama is elected President and Proposition 8 — the California voter...

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...

A romantic comedy about a man's wife that has a closet secret literally. When James begins to work for the company that rents Closet Spaces, he finds...

The untold true story: The rise and fall of the greatest funk band ever, Parliament Funkadelic.

Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like everyone else. They saw fighting heroically in th...

A struggling black college grad wakes up to find that reparations have finally been paid to descendants of slaves in America. With this new found capi...

The James Brown Story

Film commissioned by the Chicago-based publisher of Negro Digest, Ebony, Tan, and Jet to encourage advertisers to reach out to African American consum...

The Mothership has landed! Parliament-Funkadelic plays an out-of-this-world set at The Summit in Houston, Texas on Halloween night 1976.

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

Aundrey Burno, a black youth looking down the wrong end of a murder charge -- for which a conviction could result in a lifetime in prison -- appears t...