Browse African American History Movies

  • 2018
    The Long Shadow

    The Long Shadow

    The Long Shadow

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    When filmmaker and investigative journalist Frances Causey, a daughter of the South, set out to explore the continuing racial divisions in the US, wha...

    The Long Shadow
  • 2019
    Hebrews to Negroes 2: Revelation - The Age of The Awakening

    Hebrews to Negroes 2: Revelation - The Age of The Awakening

    Hebrews to Negroes 2: Revelation - The Age of The Awakening

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    Hebrews to Negroes 2 : Revelation is a documentary that uncovers the 'True Biblical Identity" and Ancestral Homeland of the people living in North Afr...

    Hebrews to Negroes 2: Revelation - The Age of The Awakening
  • 2022
    Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom

    Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom

    Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom

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    A Black American is troubled by the legacy of American slavery and the misuse of Christianity to justify it. He travels throughout Texas discovering h...

    Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom
  • 1998
    Stepping

    Stepping

    Stepping

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    Stepping is a dance form that can be found across the country at virtually every college with a substantial African American enrollment. Stepping is p...

    Stepping
  • 2008
    Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North

    Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North

    Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North

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    A descendant of the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history, filmmaker Katrina Browne explores the contemporary legacy of slavery by traveling wi...

    Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
  • 2014
    Can You Hear God Crying?

    Can You Hear God Crying?

    Can You Hear God Crying?

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    World première recording of Hannibal Lokumbe's 'spritatorio' Can You Hear God Crying, which combines jazz, gospel and chamber music with West African...

    Can You Hear God Crying?
  • 2010
    DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis

    DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis

    DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis

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    The history of Chicago's African-American community told like never before -- through the voices of its leading citizens, scholars, artists, politicia...

    DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis
  • 2021
    Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten

    Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten

    Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten

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    Learn about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, on the one hundredth anniversary of the crime, and how the community of Tulsa is coming to terms with its pa...

    Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten
  • 2020
    River of Hope

    River of Hope

    River of Hope

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    "River of Hope" tells the story of how a former slave Mary Barnes Cabell and her children helped found the first college for African Americans in West...

    River of Hope
  • 2018
    Race War

    Race War

    Race War

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    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 I...

    Race War
  • 2015
    7 A.M. A Documentary

    7 A.M. A Documentary

    7 A.M. A Documentary

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    Black people face a lot of problems, but the root cause of those issues is our lack of businesses. 7 A.M. is the first documentary ever that talks to...

    7 A.M. A Documentary
  • 2017
    Gentrified: Ethnic Cleansing American Style

    Gentrified: Ethnic Cleansing American Style

    Gentrified: Ethnic Cleansing American Style

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    The first in-depth analysis of the unspoken ethnic component behind the most devastating socio-economic movement in America today.

    Gentrified: Ethnic Cleansing American Style
  • 2013
    A Community Called Orange Mound

    A Community Called Orange Mound

    A Community Called Orange Mound

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    Orange Mound is a southeast Memphis neighborhood with a surprising legacy. With roots going back to the time of plantations and slavery, Orange Mound...

    A Community Called Orange Mound