Movies: African american

  • 1996
    A Son of Africa: The Autobiography of a Slave

    A Son of Africa: The Autobiography of a Slave (1996)

    A Son of Africa: The Autobiography of a Slave

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    A documentary following the life of Olaudah Equiano, based on his autobiography "The Interesting Narration of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African"....

    A Son of Africa: The Autobiography of a Slave
  • 1946
    House-Rent Party

    House-Rent Party (1946)

    House-Rent Party

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    Summaries Shorty's wife throws him out of the house for lying around reading detective thrillers and letting his boss Pigmeat get away with not paying him for the work he does at Pigmeat's barber shop in Harlem. He runs into Pigmeat on the street an...

    House-Rent Party
  • 1972
    To Be Young, Gifted and Black

    To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1972)

    To Be Young, Gifted and Black

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    A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries....

    To Be Young, Gifted and Black
  • 2012
    Soul Food Junkies

    Soul Food Junkies (2012)

    Soul Food Junkies

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    To many African Americans, soul food is sacrament, ritual, and a key expression of cultural identity. But does this traditional cuisine do more harm to health than it soothes the soul?...

    Soul Food Junkies
  • 2016
    Closet Space: The Movie

    Closet Space: The Movie (2016)

    Closet Space: The Movie

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    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 out what his wife has going on behind his back....

    Closet Space: The Movie
  • 2009
    Coming Back for More

    Coming Back for More (2009)

    Coming Back for More

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    Funk legend Sly Stone disappeared from the limelight for more than 20 years. Musicians and the media tried to find the recluse but failed. In 2005 Willem Alkema started searching for Sly. Sly didn't want to be found or filmed, but Willem didn't give ...

    Coming Back for More
  • 2018
    Make It Soul

    Make It Soul (2018)

    Make It Soul

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    Chicago, winter 1965. The Regal Theater hosts James Brown and Solomon Burke, two monuments of Soul music. Backstage, everyone's under pressure. But in 1960s America, both men know their music has unexpected powers....

    Make It Soul
  • 2007
    Lord Help Us

    Lord Help Us (2007)

    Lord Help Us

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    Comedy about faith and family directed by Shavar Ross. When a recently widowed Baptist preacher (Bill Toliver) loses the respect of his congregation over rumors of his impending marriage to a woman 45 years younger, best friends hatch a plan to help ...

    Lord Help Us
  • 2024
    Songs From the Sky

    Songs From the Sky (2024)

    Songs From the Sky

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    After Phyllis discovers that her daughter Cecilia can read, she’s torn between abiding to her slave owner’s commands or encouraging her daughter that reading is a pathway to their freedom....

    Songs From the Sky
  • 2021
    Trap Flix Party

    Trap Flix Party (2021)

    Trap Flix Party

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

    Trap Flix Party
  • 2016
    Night School

    Night School (2016)

    Night School

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    Indianapolis has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country. Night School follows three adult students living in the city’s more impoverished neighborhoods as they attempt to earn their diplomas while juggling other difficult respo...

    Night School
  • 1993
    Flyin' Cut Sleeves

    Flyin' Cut Sleeves (1993)

    Flyin' Cut Sleeves

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    FLYIN' CUT SLEEVES, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted families, cultural alienation, drugs and violence. Neighborhood teenagers responded by organizing int...

    Flyin' Cut Sleeves
  • 2017
    The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War

    The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War (2017)

    The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War

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    Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like everyone else. They saw fighting heroically in the trenches as their chance to achieve this. In 1918, the 15th New York National Guard Regiment becam...

    The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War
  • 2018
    Last Life

    Last Life (2018)

    Last Life

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    Two lovers learn they've known each other over many life times and that this is their last life together. They don't have long to live and must clean up the 'hurts' between them earned over the millennia and multiple personalities they've inhabited t...

    Last Life
  • 1970
    Right On!

    Right On! (1970)

    Right On!

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    Filmed on the rooftops of lower Manhattan, this performance film features the original Last Poets performing 28 numbers adapted from their legendary Concept-East Poetry appearance at New York's Paperback Theater in 1969. Described as “a conspiracy of...

    Right On!
  • 2017
    Pride of the Buffalo Soldier

    Pride of the Buffalo Soldier (2017)

    Pride of the Buffalo Soldier

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

    Pride of the Buffalo Soldier
  • 1999
    Drylongso

    Drylongso (1999)

    Drylongso

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    A young woman in a photography class begins taking pictures of black men out of fear they will soon be extinct....

    Drylongso
  • 1969
    Operation Breadbasket

    Operation Breadbasket (1969)

    Operation Breadbasket

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    Actor Robert Culp narrates this special examining the use of boycotts by African-Americans as a way of obtaining jobs....

    Operation Breadbasket
  • 1954
    The Secret of Selling the Negro

    The Secret of Selling the Negro (1954)

    The Secret of Selling the Negro

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    Film commissioned by the Chicago-based publisher of Negro Digest, Ebony, Tan, and Jet to encourage advertisers to reach out to African American consumers. The Secret of Selling the Negro depicts the lives, activities, and consumer behavior of African...

    The Secret of Selling the Negro
  • 1976
    Parliament Funkadelic - The Mothership Connection

    Parliament Funkadelic - The Mothership Connection (1976)

    Parliament Funkadelic - The Mothership Connection

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    The Mothership has landed! Parliament-Funkadelic plays an out-of-this-world set at The Summit in Houston, Texas on Halloween night 1976....

    Parliament Funkadelic - The Mothership Connection