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Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
An intimate look at black cowboys as they gather for a rodeo and dance on the 40 acre Circle 6 Ranch in Raywood, Texas. A dirt road leads onto the ranch, where all of the structures, including a frame house, rodeo arena, and barn, are hand-wrought. A.J. Walker, his wife Pam, and his son, Anthony, are preparing for the monthly rodeo. This rodeo, which draws from the surrounding communities, is very much a family operation. Black cowboys drive their...
3) Sounder
Publisher
Legacy Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Set in rural Louisiana during the Depression, this heartfelt story tells of a sharecropper family struggling to overcome adversity. After stealing to feed his family, Nathan is sent to a prison camp. In their fight for survival, his determined wife and their eldest son hold the family together. Once the boy becomes an adult, he searches for his father but instead discovers manhood.
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Pennsylvania-born filmmaker Ephraim Asili has been exploring different facets of the African diaspora—and his own place within it—for nearly a decade. His feature-length debut, THE INHERITANCE, is a vibrant, engaging ensemble work that takes place almost entirely within the walls of a West Philadelphia house where a community of young people have come together to form a collective of Black artists and activists.
Publisher
PBS*
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This series looks at the last five decades of African American history through the eyes of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., exploring the tremendous gains and persistent challenges of these years. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, scholarly analysis and rare archival footage, the series illuminates our recent past, while raising urgent questions about the future of the African American community--and our nation as a whole. The second hour dramatizes the diverging...
Publisher
PBS*
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This series looks at the last five decades of African American history through the eyes of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., exploring the tremendous gains and persistent challenges of these years. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, scholarly analysis and rare archival footage, the series illuminates our recent past, while raising urgent questions about the future of the African American community--and our nation as a whole. The final hour brings the story up...
9) Good Hair
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Chris Rock explores the wonders of African-American hairstyles. **Sundance Film Festival** winner, Grand Jury Prize. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of renowned percussionist Milford Graves, exploring his kaleidoscopic creativity and relentless curiosity. The film draws the viewer through the artist’s lush garden and ornate home, into the martial arts dojo in his backyard and the laboratory in his basement - all of this just blocks from where he grew up in the housing projects of South Jamaica, Queens. Graves tells stories of discovery, struggle and survival, ruminates on the essence...
11) Flex is Kings
Publisher
Visit Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A riveting and awe-inspiring look inside the world of Brooklyn street dancing known as ‘flexing.’ FLEX IS KINGS takes audiences along on the emotional journey of several young dancers who vie for a chance to make something of themselves by battling it out through this DIY art form. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. "*An eye-popper showing the old pop and lock brought to thrilling, disorienting extremes.*" - Alan Scherstuhl,...
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The luminaries of contemporary African American letters - poets, novelists, critics and actors - gathered in October, 2012 to pay tribute to Toni Morrison, read from her writings and share what it has meant to their lives and work.
13) Black Boys
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
BLACK BOYS illuminates the full humanity of Black men and boys in America. An intimate, inter-generational exploration, Black Boys strives for insight to black identity and opportunity at the nexus of sports, education, and criminal justice. Speaking with an array of figures — ranging from educators, athletes, journalists, activists, parents, and youth — the documentary explores the body, mind, voice, and heart of Black boys and the double edged...
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Homer G. Phillips Hospital provided state-of-the-art medical training to African-American physicians and nurses during the most turbulent of segregated times paving way for people of color to achieve greatness for the benefit of humankind.
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Set during the 2014 Furious Flower conference, Furious Flower III offers the unprecedented opportunity to watch thirty-two of today’s leading African American poets reading from their work and discussing the critical issues shaping this vibrant poetic tradition.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Examine how the legal nightmare of the "Scottsboro Boys" trials extended for decades. It launched and ended careers. It educated the public about the plight of African-Americans. It divided - then united - America's political left. And it illustrates what was wrong with America's justice system in the 1930s.
Publisher
Kristy Andersen
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (*Their Eyes Were Watching God*), established the African American vernacular as one of the most vital, inventive voices in American literature. This definitive film biography, eighteen years in the making, portrays Zora in all her complexity: gifted, flamboyant, and controversial but always fiercely original....
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
On December 2, 1966, director Shirley Clarke and a miniscule film crew gathered in her apartment at the Hotel Chelsea. Bestowed for twelve hours with the one-and-only Jason Holliday, Clarke confronted the iconic performer about his good times and bad behavior as a gay hustler, on-and-off houseboy and aspiring cabaret performer. As the cameras rolled and Holliday spun tales, sang songs and donned costumes through the night, a mesmerizing portrait formed...
19) Where It Hurts!
Publisher
Mindz Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
WHERE IT HURTS! points out what is hurting people in black and brown communities while providing financial and community solutions to deal with America RIGHT NOW!
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