African American Movies

  • 1993
    Flyin' Cut Sleeves

    Flyin' Cut Sleeves

    Flyin' Cut Sleeves

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

    Flyin' Cut Sleeves
  • 1970
    Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till

    Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till

    Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till

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    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...

    Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till
  • 1979
    The Deadly Art of Survival

    The Deadly Art of Survival

    The Deadly Art of Survival

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    Real-life kung fu master Nathan Ingram stars in this gritty, low-budget martial arts epic as a local karate school owner who clashes with a gang of...

    The Deadly Art of Survival
  • 2016
    Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation

    Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation

    Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation

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    Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1867 sculpture Forever Free, to the work of...

    Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation
  • 2014
    The Cure

    The Cure

    The Cure

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    A hired assassin battles time & powerful forces to rid himself of a prototype antitoxin that's been shoved into his bloodstream.

    The Cure
  • 2009
    Coming Back for More

    Coming Back for More

    Coming Back for More

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    Funk legend Sly Stone disappeared from the limelight for more than 20 years. Musicians and the media tried to find the recluse but failed. In 2005...

    Coming Back for More
  • 1931
    The Exile

    The Exile

    The Exile

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

    The Exile
  • 1929
    The Scar of Shame

    The Scar of Shame

    The Scar of Shame

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

    The Scar of Shame
  • 2023
    The Singer: A Montford Point Marine

    The Singer: A Montford Point Marine

    The Singer: A Montford Point Marine

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    “The Singer: A Montford Point Marine” tells the story of Henry Charles Johnson, one of the first African Americans in the U.S. Marine...

    The Singer: A Montford Point Marine
  • 1969
    Operation Breadbasket

    Operation Breadbasket

    Operation Breadbasket

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

    Operation Breadbasket
  • 1984
    Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People

    Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People

    Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People

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    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...

    Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People
  • 1978
    James Brown Soul Brother No. 1

    James Brown Soul Brother No. 1

    James Brown Soul Brother No. 1

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    The James Brown Story

    James Brown Soul Brother No. 1
  • 2012
    Echoes 'Cross the Tracks

    Echoes 'Cross the Tracks

    Echoes 'Cross the Tracks

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    A powerful documentary starring Morgan Freeman about the genesis of The Blues in the South and the music spreading around the world. Morgan Freeman...

    Echoes 'Cross the Tracks
  • 1967
    Sweet Love, Bitter

    Sweet Love, Bitter

    Sweet Love, Bitter

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    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...

    Sweet Love, Bitter
  • 2016
    Night School

    Night School

    Night School

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    Indianapolis has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country. Night School follows three adult students living in the city’s...

    Night School
  • 2022
    The Legend of Glynn Turman

    The Legend of Glynn Turman

    The Legend of Glynn Turman

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

    The Legend of Glynn Turman
  • 2021
    Trap Flix Party

    Trap Flix Party

    Trap Flix Party

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

    Trap Flix Party
  • 2020
    Sixteen Thousand Dollars

    Sixteen Thousand Dollars

    Sixteen Thousand Dollars

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    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...

    Sixteen Thousand Dollars
  • 2017
    The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War

    The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War

    The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War

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

    The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War
  • 1998
    Thug Life in D.C.

    Thug Life in D.C.

    Thug Life in D.C.

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    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...

    Thug Life in D.C.