African American Movies

Eight high school students enter into an abandon movie studio to have some Halloween fun, little do they know that a wanted killer is hiding inside, f...

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

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

Chronicles over four centuries of African American influence on the development of the modern-day United States. Before Plymouth Rock and Jamestown, S...

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

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

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

An educational video exploring drug addiction, including footage of real-life addicts going through rehab therapy.

In The Singer: A Montford Point Marine, the enthralling journey of Henry Charles Johnson, one of the first African Americans in the U.S. Marine Corps,...

To many African Americans, soul food is sacrament, ritual, and a key expression of cultural identity. But does this traditional cuisine do more harm t...

This musical comedy with an all-black cast imagines what television entertainment will be like in the near future.

Full of nostalgia and charm, Kid Rock is an exposé of a young black man, Tadros Eyob’s journey into rock climbing in British Columbia.

Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924),the first Black woman to mount a retrospective at the...

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

Actor Robert Culp narrates this special examining the use of boycotts by African-Americans as a way of obtaining jobs.

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

"Golds" follows Mercy, a young boy who lives in a poor neighborhood with his ill mom who can not afford the medical attention she needs. Mercy comes u...

Actor Glynn Turman makes his Broadway debut at 12 years old in the original production of “A Raisin in the Sun” opposite Sidney Poitier and becomes a...

African American soldiers throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries faced discrimination and segregation, yet many still chose to fight for their country...