African American Movies
- 1993
Flyin' Cut Sleeves
Flyin' Cut Sleeves4.51993HD
FLYIN' CUT SLEEVES, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted...
- 1970
Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till
Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till01970HD
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...
- 1979
The Deadly Art of Survival
The Deadly Art of Survival6.3331979HD
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...
- 2016
Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation
Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation02016HD
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...
- 2014
The Cure
The Cure02014HD
A hired assassin battles time & powerful forces to rid himself of a prototype antitoxin that's been shoved into his bloodstream.
- 2009
Coming Back for More
Coming Back for More02009HD
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...
- 1931
The Exile
The Exile4.91931HD
An idealistic young man is torn between a sultry Chicago nightclub owner and a Scottish South Dakotan farmgirl.
- 1929
The Scar of Shame
The Scar of Shame4.91929HD
An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather.
- 2023
The Singer: A Montford Point Marine
The Singer: A Montford Point Marine02023HD
“The Singer: A Montford Point Marine” tells the story of Henry Charles Johnson, one of the first African Americans in the U.S. Marine...
- 1969
Operation Breadbasket
Operation Breadbasket01969HD
Actor Robert Culp narrates this special examining the use of boycotts by African-Americans as a way of obtaining jobs.
- 1984
Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People
Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People5.61984HD
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...
- 1978
James Brown Soul Brother No. 1
James Brown Soul Brother No. 181978HD
The James Brown Story
- 2012
Echoes 'Cross the Tracks
Echoes 'Cross the Tracks62012HD
A powerful documentary starring Morgan Freeman about the genesis of The Blues in the South and the music spreading around the world. Morgan Freeman...
- 1967
Sweet Love, Bitter
Sweet Love, Bitter5.51967HD
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...
- 2016
Night School
Night School72016HD
Indianapolis has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country. Night School follows three adult students living in the city’s...
- 2022
The Legend of Glynn Turman
The Legend of Glynn Turman02022HD
Actor Glynn Turman makes his Broadway debut at 12 years old in the original production of “A Raisin in the Sun” opposite Sidney Poitier...
- 2021
Trap Flix Party
Trap Flix Party02021HD
A chilling anthology of three trap genre stories including a polyamorous relationship that’s not quite right and a funeral that becomes a...
- 2020
Sixteen Thousand Dollars
Sixteen Thousand Dollars02020HD
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...
- 2017
The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War
The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War02017HD
Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like everyone else. They saw fighting heroically in...
- 1998
Thug Life in D.C.
Thug Life in D.C.01998HD
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...