Jeffrey Wright stars in “American Fiction,” Cord Jefferson’s adaptation of Percival Everett’s “Erasure” –…
African American
Directed by Mimi Chakarova
“The Apology” investigates an incident in the 1960s in which Alameda County and the City of Hayward…
Directed by Eric D Seals
An African-American filmmaker explores health disparities within the Black community through the…
Directed by Monique N. Matthews
America’s medical inequities have turned giving birth into a battlefield for too many Black women…
Directed by Lagueria Davis
Love her or hate her, almost everyone has a Barbie story. For filmmaker Lagueria Davis, it all…
Directed by Markie Hancock
"Bloodlines of the Slave Trade" examines the lives of two people whose only connection is a genetic…
Directed by Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough
“The Body Politic” follows Baltimore’s idealistic young mayor into office where he puts his personal…
Directed by Robert Alan Underhill, Aravind Ragupathi
"Box Brown: A Box Marked Freedom" is the incredible TRUE story of Henry "Box" Brown, an enslaved man who…
Directed by Jack Hill
Nurse "Coffy" Coffin leads a double life. During the day, she's a nurse at work. At night, she's an…
Want to better understand what it means to be Black in America? Listen to the words — and, in…
Healthcare. Foster care. Criminal justice. Local government. Corruption can be found at any level of…
Directed by Sascha Just
Chronicling the life of Ellis Marsalis Jr., the film follows the exceptional New Orleans composer,…
Directed by Barbara Kopple
“Gumbo Coalition” follows two visionary Civil Rights leaders, Marc Morial and Janet Murguía, as they…
Directed by Reginald Hudlin
Young Kid has been invited to a party at his friend Play's house. But after a fight at school, Kid's…
Directed by Simon Steuri
Two African-American teenage boys, Daniel and Eli, are suddenly and mysteriously abandoned by their…
Directed by Kelley Kali
Based on the true story of Kemba Smith, a college student falls in love with a man, only to learn…
Directed by Timothy Harris
A champion of loving one’s country while simultaneously holding valid criticism of it, Malcolm…
Directed by Rosa Ruth Boesten
George Anthony Morton is a classical painter who spent 10 years in federal prison for dealing drugs…
Directed by Gelila Bekele, Armani Ortiz
Writer, actor, filmmaker, studio head and media titan, Tyler Perry is America’s consummate…
From the femme side of a gender binary comes a set of stories about passions and/or paychecks.…
Directed by Shaun Dozier
In June and July of 1940, Richard Wright joined Paul Green at his office in Chapel Hill, NC, to…
Directed by Sara Newens, Mina T. Son
Was the planting of tamarisk trees along the historically Black Lawrence Crossley neighborhood in…
Directed by Katja Esson
Miami is ground-zero for sea-level-rise. When residents of the Liberty Square public-housing…
Directed by Isaiah Smallman
A filmmaker returns to his hometown neighborhood in West Baltimore, where he hopes to rediscover his…
Directed by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Lisa Cortes
“The Space Race” uncovers the little-known stories of the first Black pilots, engineers and…
Directed by Michael Warren Wilson
In 1919, Black workers’ decades-long efforts to challenge exploitation in the Arkansas Delta…
Directed by Alex Rappoport
An intimate, provocative series of conversations with 80-year-old abstract painter Peter Bradley. At…
