Black History Movies

  • 1938
    The Story of Doctor Carver

    The Story of Doctor Carver

    The Story of Doctor Carver

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    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 Doctor Carver
  • 2022
    For Love & Country

    For Love & Country

    For Love & Country

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    Country music has always been Black music. For Love & Country examines the genre's past through the lens of a new generation of Black artists...

    For Love & Country
  • 1966
    The Strolling '20s

    The Strolling '20s

    The Strolling '20s

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

    The Strolling '20s
  • 2014
    Circle Unbroken: A Gullah Journey from Africa to America

    Circle Unbroken: A Gullah Journey from Africa to America

    Circle Unbroken: A Gullah Journey from Africa to America

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    75% of all enslaved Africans coming to America came in through Beaufort and the sea islands of South Carolina. This beautiful and picturesque tourist...

    Circle Unbroken: A Gullah Journey from Africa to America
  • 1970
    Joe's College Road Trip

    Joe's College Road Trip

    Joe's College Road Trip

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    Realizing he may have sheltered his son for too long, Brian begrudgingly agrees to send his son B.J. on a college tour with his grandfather in the...

    Joe's College Road Trip
  • 2024
    Speaking in Tongues: Take One

    Speaking in Tongues: Take One

    Speaking in Tongues: Take One

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    A 16mm experimental film that analogizes the discourse of racialized criminality and the carceral apparatus, which surveils and delimits the...

    Speaking in Tongues: Take One
  • 2018
    Congo Cabaret

    Congo Cabaret

    Congo Cabaret

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    Harlem, 1926. A “sweetman” Zeddy, living off a woman, brings a country girl he’s trying to impress to a gay-owned cabaret. There he...

    Congo Cabaret
  • 1978
    The Writer In America : Toni Morrison

    The Writer In America : Toni Morrison

    The Writer In America : Toni Morrison

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    An interview with a young Toni Morrison. The video also shows Toni Morrison going shopping, at a party, and at work. Her commentary provides an...

    The Writer In America : Toni Morrison
  • 2021
    JazzTown

    JazzTown

    JazzTown

    02021HD

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

    JazzTown
  • 2016
    #Rucker50

    #Rucker50

    #Rucker50

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    The celebratory explosion of basketball history makers, legend shakers and lawbreakers; juxtaposed against important events in Civil & Human...

    #Rucker50
  • 2024
    American Coup: Wilmington 1898

    American Coup: Wilmington 1898

    American Coup: Wilmington 1898

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    The little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city in 1898 — the...

    American Coup: Wilmington 1898
  • 1982
    Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy

    Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy

    Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy

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    Traces the life of Booker T. Washington, ex-slave, author, educator, and political leader, focusing on his stewardship of Tuskegee Institute in...

    Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy
  • 2020
    Green Flake

    Green Flake

    Green Flake

    02020HD

    Green Flake, a southern slave, joins Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as a child. Later on in his life he is sent to pave the way to what...

    Green Flake
  • 2022
    Los Negros

    Los Negros

    Los Negros

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    Seville, Spain, 14th century. A group of black slaves brought from Africa form the Hermandad de los Negros, a Holy Week brotherhood that has survived...

    Los Negros
  • 2003
    A Century of Black Cinema

    A Century of Black Cinema

    A Century of Black Cinema

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

    A Century of Black Cinema
  • 1996
    John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk

    John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk

    John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk

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    John Henrik Clarke talks about Black history.

    John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk
  • 2020
    The Ball Method

    The Ball Method

    The Ball Method

    02020HD

    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...

    The Ball Method
  • 1965
    La Tragédie du Roi Christophe

    La Tragédie du Roi Christophe

    La Tragédie du Roi Christophe

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    La Tragédie du Roi Christophe
  • 2021
    Odessa's Reign

    Odessa's Reign

    Odessa's Reign

    02021HD

    Black women had extremely limited options during Jim Crow. Odessa’s story explores how an African American woman born in a time with limited...

    Odessa's Reign
  • 2018
    Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America

    Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America

    Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America

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    The Movie "Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America" uncovers the true identity of the Children of Israel by proving the true ethnicity of Abraham,...

    Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America