African American Movies

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,...

Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)

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

"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...

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...

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

Pata Seca (1828), a man whose back bore the whip marks of his enslavers , whose eyes held the haunted memory of being forced to breed over 200 slave...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

In the old American South, a black teen with a white adoptive family becomes curious about her roots after hearing birds for the first time.

Documentary about the life of jazz and funk saxophonist, Maceo Parker

The first Black-collegiate polo team at Morehouse College chases national USPA certification, training a rag-tag team of charismatic cowboys...

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

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

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