Movies

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just...

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

Cicely Tyson was Emmy-nominated as Outstanding Actress for her portrait of a Chicago schoolteacher whose remarkable achievements with black children...

The cast and crew of Roots (1977) recall its phenomenal success on its 25th anniversary.

Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War...

A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...

The story of American track sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who overcame physical handicaps to win three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics.

A reticent piano player Percival, along with Rooster, his flamboyant lead performer and manager, struggle to keep their speakeasy, in the...

A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

Outraged by the treatment of New York City’s unhoused residents, an activist brings national attention to the issue by taking their case to...

A bored suburban housewife embarks upon a series of affairs seemingly triggered by escapism and fantasy.

A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her...

After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.

Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and...

In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.

Jessica has been married to her controlling husband Gary for years. The abuse only gets worse when she gets a job at a bakery and makes two really...

Tells the inspiring story of how six iconic African American female entertainers – Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll,...

The manager of a chemical plant and a city manager rise up against their respective bosses to keep a town safe in this ecologically conscientious...