Black British Movies

Two twenty-somethings, both reeling from bad break-ups, connect over the course of an eventful day in South London – helping each other deal...

Jules is a drag artist in London who withdraws into himself and loses his career after a horrific attack. Months later, he recognizes one of his...

A celebration of home and belonging in South London. This is a film that tows the line between documentary and narrative, and celebrates neighborhood...

After losing a family member to a violent crime, a shattered rideshare driver picks up a passenger that forces him to confront his grief.

It’s The Blackness is a bold, funny, and heartfelt British-Nigerian and Caribbean comedy-drama set in London, following two young Black...

After an incident at her high school pulls her into the orbit of the only other Black girl in her year, “Essex Girl” Bisola is plunged...

Dion, (Selorm Adonu), a young teen, gets beaten up at school. His father, (David Harewood), takes him to the boxing ring to teach him how to fight...

The film follows a group of growers who embrace the restorative power that the soil holds. Skin of the Earth is a story about the relationship...

A charming story about a West Indian girl who moves to 1950s London. Marcia has spent most of her 11 years living with her Jamaican grandmother but...

THE MOVEMENT DOCUMENTARY IS AN INSIGHT INTO THE LIFE OF AN ARTIST IN THE UK GRIME SCENE. Risky Roadz follows the day in the life of six upcoming...

A moment of weakness after a humiliating breakup leads Zahra, a young Muslim woman to play a forbidden lottery ticket. Her chance at escape becomes a...

Co-directed by Blackwood and Julien, the first full-length feature film by Sankofa Film and Video offers a radical and necessary interrogation into...

Chronicles a pivotal two-week period in London at the height of Dinah Washington’s career, following the international success of her 1959...

An examination of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s in the UK, surveying both the individuals and the cultural forces that defined the era. ...

Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager murdered by white racists in 1993. His parents fought to have the crime properly investigated,...

From the Black Earth is a collaboration between Bristol based company Cables and Cameras, and a local farmer Humphrey Lloyd. Employing both lucid...

Special documentary examining the death of Joy Gardner in 1993 and the subsequent public campaign that culminated in the trial at the Old Bailey of...

An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.

Radical resistance in the postwar British Caribbean community, from the 1948 Nationality Act to the 1958 Brixton riots.