African American Movies

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...

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

On a sunny day in 2004, a drug dealer with a secret gets stuck babysitting his girlfriend's 9 year old cousin.

To receive their inheritance, business magnate Hudson Graham has mandated his surviving family members return to their homestead and spend his final...

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

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...

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

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

Hazel is a romantic comedy that explores the journey of a young woman navigating her personal relationships and discovering the importance of...

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

A young woman named Her meets a stranger in the park named He, who recounts a surreal and melancholic past. They share stories and a strange...

A teenage boy reluctantly turns to the streets to earn $6,000 a month for his mother's cancer medicine and quickly discovers that street money does...

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

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,...

In contrast to the lens that focuses exclusively on the racist traditions that are rooted in America’s social history, the moral counterweight...

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

Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale...

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

Evanston, a suburb just north of Chicago, touts its progressivism and inclusion. It was the first city in the U.S. to offer reparations for Black...

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...