Black History Movies

  • 1994
    Not Just Passing Through

    Not Just Passing Through

    Not Just Passing Through

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    A documentary about lesbians preserving their history, with a focus on the work of the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Includes interviews with Joan...

    Not Just Passing Through
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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...

    Race War
  • 1984
    Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story

    Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story

    Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story

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    Frederick Douglass, Fighter for Freedom is a 19-minute documentary on the life and times of Frederick Douglass. Historic photos and documdrama...

    Fighter for Freedom: The Frederick Douglass Story
  • 2020
    Our Alexandria

    Our Alexandria

    Our Alexandria

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    Two artists from Alexandria, Virginia, revisit the town’s segregated past and tell the story of family, friendship, loss, and love through...

    Our Alexandria
  • 2007
    A Distant Shore: African Americans on D-Day

    A Distant Shore: African Americans on D-Day

    A Distant Shore: African Americans on D-Day

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    The role of African American soldiers during the World War II Allied invasion of Normandy.

    A Distant Shore: African Americans on D-Day
  • 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
  • 2012
    Fired by Liberty: Black Soldiers of the Civil War

    Fired by Liberty: Black Soldiers of the Civil War

    Fired by Liberty: Black Soldiers of the Civil War

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    This Documentary details the history of Black soldiers during the Civil War.

    Fired by Liberty: Black Soldiers of the Civil War
  • 1970
    Bitch: a word movie

    Bitch: a word movie

    Bitch: a word movie

    01970HD

    Nantali Indongo, the rapper of the group Nomadic Massive, has long refrained from using the word Bitch in the lyrics of the songs she sings. As an...

    Bitch: a word movie
  • 1970
    Harlem of the West: Then and Now

    Harlem of the West: Then and Now

    Harlem of the West: Then and Now

    01970HD

    The Fillmore was once a thriving, vibrant, and multicultural community with one of the most prominent jazz scenes on the West Coast and hundreds of...

    Harlem of the West: Then and Now
  • 1970
    Fate of a Salesman

    Fate of a Salesman

    Fate of a Salesman

    01970HD

    Fate of a Salesman is an intimate portrait of a way of life on the verge of disappearing. In its 60th year of business, Men's Fashion Center in...

    Fate of a Salesman
  • 1970
    The Story Within the Story: Gary, Indiana

    The Story Within the Story: Gary, Indiana

    The Story Within the Story: Gary, Indiana

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    A small urban city with a gargantuan wealth of history, contributions, and changes. From the steel industry, music, politics, education, and sports;...

    The Story Within the Story: Gary, Indiana
  • 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