African American Movies

Based on a True Story, we journey back to 1980 to see John King, a 10yr old African American boy, see his mother experience the Joy of Salvation,...

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

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

Evanston, a suburb just north of Chicago, touts its progressivism and inclusion. It was the first city in the U.S. to offer reparations for Black...

In contrast to the lens that focuses exclusively on the racist traditions that are rooted in America’s social history, the moral counterweight...

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...

Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)

Hazel is a romantic comedy that explores the journey of a young woman navigating her personal relationships and discovering the importance of...