African American Movies

A romantic comedy about a man's wife that has a closet secret literally. When James begins to work for the company that rents Closet Spaces, he finds...

In California's Bay Area, a painful memory lingers of the Port Chicago disaster of WWII, when hundreds of the Navy's first Black Sailors perished,...

A chilling anthology of three trap genre stories including a polyamorous relationship that’s not quite right and a funeral that becomes a...

African American soldiers throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries faced discrimination and segregation, yet many still chose to fight for their...

Combines footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era to re-tell the story of Noble Sissle's incredible journey that spans "The Harlem...

A documentary on funk and P-funk and the bands and artists that made it all happen: James Brown, Sly Stone, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Maurice...

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

Film commissioned by the Chicago-based publisher of Negro Digest, Ebony, Tan, and Jet to encourage advertisers to reach out to African American...

The Pittsburgh History Series is an ongoing series of hour-long documentaries that highlight various parts of our city's history. Since 1988, these...

Full of nostalgia and charm, Kid Rock is an exposé of a young black man, Tadros Eyob’s journey into rock climbing in British Columbia.

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

Eight high school students enter into an abandon movie studio to have some Halloween fun, little do they know that a wanted killer is hiding inside,...

In the old American South, a black teen with a white adoptive family becomes curious about her roots after hearing birds for the first time.

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...

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

Documentary about the life of jazz and funk saxophonist, Maceo Parker

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

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

Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)

A 1975 documentary short about how children perceive themselves in terms of their surroundings, family, and ethnicity.