Movies: African american history

  • 1998
    The Language You Cry In

    The Language You Cry In (1998)

    The Language You Cry In

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    THE LANGUAGE YOU CRY IN tells an amazing scholarly detective story that searches for -and finds- meaningful links between African Americans and their ancestral past. It bridges hundreds of years and thousands of miles from the Gullah people of presen...

    The Language You Cry In
  • 1968
    Uptight

    Uptight (1968)

    Uptight

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    Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own....

    Uptight
  • 1984
    Solomon Northup's Odyssey

    Solomon Northup's Odyssey (1984)

    Solomon Northup's Odyssey

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    This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born free man who works as a carpenter and is also a part time musician. One day he is approached by some men who want him to ...

    Solomon Northup's Odyssey
  • 2004
    Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

    Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)

    Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

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    The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion....

    Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
  • 2018
    Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy

    Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy (2018)

    Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy

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    Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy is a feature-length documentary film highlighting the history of the Crownsville State Mental Hospital in Crownsville, MD....

    Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy
  • 2022
    The Musicians' Green Book: An Enduring Legacy

    The Musicians' Green Book: An Enduring Legacy (2022)

    The Musicians' Green Book: An Enduring Legacy

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    Stories and music of Black artists who relied on an underground travel guide to navigate the injustices of racial segregation while on the road. The Negro Travelers’ Green Book was a directory of lodgings, restaurants, and entertainment venues where ...

    The Musicians' Green Book: An Enduring Legacy
  • 2017
    Not Black Enough

    Not Black Enough (2017)

    Not Black Enough

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    A deep look at the class warfare and the contradictions that African-Americans face within their own community when many of them are ostracized because they are “not black enough.” An analysis of the reasons behind these absurd acts of hatred....

    Not Black Enough
  • 2006
    The N Word

    The N Word (2006)

    The N Word

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    An exploration of the history of the word throughout its inception to present day. Woven into the narrative are poetry, music, and commentary from celebrities about their personal experiences with the word and their viewpoints. Each perspective is un...

    The N Word
  • 2019
    The Price of Protest

    The Price of Protest (2019)

    The Price of Protest

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    United States, September 1st, 2016. American football player Colin Kaepernick kneels during the national anthem, protesting police brutality against black people. Part of the population regards the gesture as an unacceptable affront to the flag. Late...

    The Price of Protest
  • 2019
    Hidden Colors 5: The Art of Black Warfare

    Hidden Colors 5: The Art of Black Warfare (2019)

    Hidden Colors 5: The Art of Black Warfare

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    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 from a historical, psychological, sexual, biological, health, educational, and military perspective....

    Hidden Colors 5: The Art of Black Warfare
  • 1984
    Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People

    Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People (1984)

    Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People

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    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 the wind and lets you be free. Lively tunes and witty narration accompany a quick-paced inventory of ...

    Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People
  • 2020
    The Ball Method

    The Ball Method (2020)

    The Ball Method

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    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 leprosy before Kalani, a 10-year-old patient is exiled into the leper colony of Molokai....

    The Ball Method
  • 2019
    Hebrews to Negroes 2: Revelation - The Age of The Awakening

    Hebrews to Negroes 2: Revelation - The Age of The Awakening (2019)

    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 Africa, the Middle East and the Levant (Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Israel). Find out what "secr...

    Hebrews to Negroes 2: Revelation - The Age of The Awakening
  • 2018
    Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America

    Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America (2018)

    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, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, the Sons of Ham, Shem & Japheth. Find out what Islam, Judaism and Christianity...

    Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America
  • 2021
    Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street

    Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street (2021)

    Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street

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    This documentary celebrates the Black cultural renaissance that existed in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, OK, and investigates the 100-year-old race massacre that left an indelible, though hidden stain on American history....

    Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
  • 1938
    The Story of Doctor Carver

    The Story of Doctor Carver (1938)

    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 products from all parts of the peanut plant, including the shells and husks. He also developed products ba...

    The Story of Doctor Carver
  • 2016
    The Body of Emmett Till

    The Body of Emmett Till (2016)

    The Body of Emmett Till

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    Emmett Till was brutally killed in the summer of 1955. At his funeral, his mother forced the world to reckon with the brutality of American racism. This short documentary was commissioned by "Time" magazine for their series "100 Photos" about the mo...

    The Body of Emmett Till
  • 2016
    Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation

    Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation (2016)

    Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation

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    Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1867 sculpture Forever Free, to the work of contemporary artists such as Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Gallagher, and Jean-Michel Basqu...

    Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation
  • 2008
    Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North

    Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North (2008)

    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 with fellow descendents from Rhode Island to Ghana and Cuba, retracing the Triangle Trade route. Along...

    Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
  • 1998
    Stepping

    Stepping (1998)

    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 performed informally during parties as well as more formally during organized step shows. This film e...

    Stepping