Black History Movies

Until 1942 around 100 German propaganda films were made, that were set in Africa. They were produced in Germany, with Black Germans and Africans...

The explosive documentary from Black Channel Films daring to ask the question "Is it still just racism or is it a race war?" NOW IS THE TIME TO ASK...

The story of Dr. George Washington Carver (1864-1943), black educator and horticulturist. He is perhaps most well known for developing over 140...

The story of George Moses Horton, an enslaved poet in 19th-century North Carolina who used his writing to resist bondage and seek freedom.

The true story of the neighborhood that inspired David Simon's fictional HBO television series "Tremé", from slave revolts and underground...

The history of warfare as it relates to global Black society, broken down into 7 chapters that examines the ways the system of racism wages warfare...

Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony by eyewitnesses...

Nantali Indongo, the rapper of the group Nomadic Massive, has long refrained from using the word Bitch in the lyrics of the songs she sings. As an...

Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for...

Documentary film on events that happened on August 28th in African-American history, shown at the Smithsonian African-American History Museum.

Explore the tumultuous life of Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., a Jamaican political activist and advocate for Black Nationalism. From founding UNIA-ACL and...

An affluent black couple deal with the envitability of a white mob coming to kill them during the 1921 Oklahoma race riots.

Art Kane, now deceased, coordinated a group photograph of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the year 1958, for a piece in Esquire magazine. Just...

Sapelo is a feature-length documentary film that journeys within a unique American island to tell the story of two young brothers, their adoptive...

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...

Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier travel down memory lane to see what life was like back in the 1920s. Harry Belafonte introduces this musical,...

Maurice Hines -- actor, director, singer, and choreographer -- navigates the complications of show business while grieving the loss of his more...

Henry Browne, an African American farmer, and his family are profiled in this film. The important job of a farmer during times of war is highlighted,...

This film highlights moments in the long and rich African American cinema history in relation to social and political events, and how it affected...

Denver’s iconic and Grammy Award-winning musicians reveal the secrets of their success and longevity in the music business while warning the...