African American Movies

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

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

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...

What happens when a bartender on a mission to find her cheating boyfriend gets stuck driving a drunk high-schooler home? Trans Am, emergency room,...

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

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

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

Three couples meet up for a summer vacation weekend but secrets, lies, and hard truths come out to spoil the fun.

Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of Noble Sissle's incredible journey that spans "The...

Portable Channel, a community documentary group in Rochester, New York, was one of the first small format video centers to have an ongoing...

A look into the 19th century American-Indian Wars, Manifest Destiny, and the conflicts between Apache tribes and the African-American Buffalo soldier...

FOLLOW THE DRINKING GOURD is a feature documentary about the Black food justice movement. Family-friendly, funny, and moving, this 60-minute film...

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

Four African American families relate their experiences with adoption.

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

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,...

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

Two years after the riots and deaths at Attica, New York, a community day was organized at Greenhaven, a federal prison in Connecticut. The event was...

“This classic award-winning documentary is the first definitive treatment of the origins and rituals of the Black Mardi Gras Indians of New...

Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)