Black History Movies
- 2023
Stamped from the Beginning
Stamped from the Beginning6.52023HD
Using innovative animation and expert insights, this documentary based on Ibram X. Kendi's bestseller explores the history of racist ideas in America.
- 2022
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Is That Black Enough for You?!?7.42022HD
A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new superstars to the craft of rising auteurs.
- 2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson7.12004HD
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
- 2024
The Marcus Garvey Story
The Marcus Garvey Story02024HD
Explore the tumultuous life of Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., a Jamaican political activist and advocate for Black Nationalism. From founding UNIA-ACL and...
- 2018
Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy
Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy7.22018HD
Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy is a feature-length documentary film highlighting the history of the Crownsville State Mental Hospital in...
- 2019
Hidden Colors 5: The Art of Black Warfare
Hidden Colors 5: The Art of Black Warfare6.32019HD
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 fr...
- 2022
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power22022HD
Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, this documentary tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordi...
- 1977
Greased Lightning
Greased Lightning6.3191977HD
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.
- 2003
A Century of Black Cinema
A Century of Black Cinema02003HD
This film highlights moments in the long and rich African American cinema history in relation to social and political events, and how it affected Blac...
- 2003
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives5.92003HD
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors wer...
- 2023
Founder Girls
Founder Girls02023HD
In this kaleidoscopic ode to girlhood, young campers find freedom, sisterhood, and themselves at a historically Black summer camp.
- 1965
La Tragédie du Roi Christophe
La Tragédie du Roi Christophe101965HD
- 2020
The 24th
The 24th5.3132020HD
The incredibly powerful and timely true story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917. The Housto...
- 2019
Hebrews to Negroes 2: Revelation - The Age of The Awakening
Hebrews to Negroes 2: Revelation - The Age of The Awakening02019HD
Hebrews to Negroes 2 : Revelation is a documentary that uncovers the 'True Biblical Identity" and Ancestral Homeland of the people living in North Afr...
- 2024
In Search of Bass Reeves
In Search of Bass Reeves5.6672024HD
By the end of his illustrious career, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves may well have been the preeminent lawman of the Old West. He brought upwards of...
- 2024
Joe's College Road Trip
Joe's College Road Trip02024HD
Realizing he may have sheltered his son for too long, Brian begrudgingly agrees to send his son B.J. on a college tour with his grandfather in the hop...
- 1994
A Great Day in Harlem
A Great Day in Harlem6.2221994HD
Art Kane, now deceased, coordinated a group photograph of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the year 1958, for a piece in Esquire magazine. Just ab...
- 2020
The Ball Method
The Ball Method02020HD
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...
- 2024
Speaking in Tongues: Take One
Speaking in Tongues: Take One02024HD
A 16mm experimental film that analogizes the discourse of racialized criminality and the carceral apparatus, which surveils and delimits the movements...
- 1966
The Strolling '20s
The Strolling '20s01966HD
Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier travel down memory lane to see what life was like back in the 1920s. Harry Belafonte introduces this musical, writt...