African American Movies

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

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

Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)

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

Two years after the riots and deaths at Attica, New York, a community day was organized at Greenhaven, a federal prison in Connecticut. The event was...

“This classic award-winning documentary is the first definitive treatment of the origins and rituals of the Black Mardi Gras Indians of New...

Colors explores the bonds of a young family living in the Bronx. They are displaced after unforeseen circumstances take the family to unexpected...

Portable Channel, a community documentary group in Rochester, New York, was one of the first small format video centers to have an ongoing...

In 1970 Los Angeles, a Black family looks fifty years into the future and imagines what life might be like in the year 2020. Told through a...