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Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the...
Do the Right Thing
A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a...
Doctor Dolittle
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference...
Jungle Fever
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
Dinosaur
From the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning PBS series NEIGHBORHOODS: THE HIDDEN CITIES OF SAN FRANCISCO comes the remarkable story of San Francisco's...
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is...
Joe Versus the Volcano
Goin’ Back to T-Town tells the story of Greenwood, an extraordinary Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that prospered during the 1920s and 30s...
Goin' Back to T-Town
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in...
Grumpy Old Men
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military...
The Hill
A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where...
Sam Whiskey
Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the...
The Scalphunters
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result...
12 Angry Men
Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who...
Bubba Ho-tep
Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song."...
Baadasssss!
Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the...
Let's Do It Again
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still...
I'm Not Rappaport
Molly Stewart, now a law student at UCLA, is determined to leave her prostitute past behind. After learning that the detective who helped save her...
Avenging Angel
Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of...
Get on the Bus
14-year-old Jo Ann Foley lives in squalor in a rural Southern community during World War II. Abused by her bootlegging grandfather Hank, Jo Ann has,...
The Secret Path
Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his...
Harry & Son
Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught...
Feast of All Saints
Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.
The House of God
When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new...
Hot Stuff
When an 11 year old boy gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team.
Finding Buck McHenry
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he...
Malcolm X
Owen is the head administrator of an old age home in Washington. One day, a resident discovers he is cheating on his taxes, and orders that Owen...
Here's to Life!
Amid an escalating war in Iraq, rising terror levels and the threat of nuclear attack, a growing body of intellectuals, religious leaders and...
The Peace!
The true story of the US Government's 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a...
Miss Evers' Boys
White abolitionist John Brown and twenty of his men attempt to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry,...
John Brown's Raid
Spike Lee's filmmaking career is examined in this partial making-of for the film 25th Hour (2002). Interviews with cast members from this film and...
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
In this animated contemporary interpretation of a Hans Christian Andersen morality tale, a pair of magic slippers help two young African-American...
The Red Shoes
A young ghetto kid despairs of ever getting out of that environment and making something of himself, until one day he gets a job as an assistant in a...
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
A Man Called Adam
A documentary filmed at Moton Field in Tuskegee Alabama, home to the airmen of the 99th Fighter Squadron. They were the first African American...
The Tuskegee Airmen: They Fought Two Wars
Hamilton Cade is an alcoholic teacher striving to put his life back together. He accepts a job tutoring an "exceptional child" only to find that...
Teacher, Teacher
A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of...
Gone Are the Days!
Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the...
The Tenth Level
The Black middle class, torn between white goals and Black needs, are examined by producers William Greaves and William Branch in a 90-minute NET...
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
Zachariah, makes a few mistakes and it is decided that he is to live as a human being for thirty days. Mordecai is his supervisor. Rebecca's husband...
The Soul Collector
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
The Cardinal
Join tennis greats John McEnroe and Billie Jean King and world leader Nelson Mandela as they pay homage to the life and work of Arthur Ashe, the...
Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World
A short documentary about the making of Spike Lee's biopic, "Malcolm X."
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
An interview/overview on the influential careers of Gordon Parks, Ossie Davis, and Melvin Van Peebles.
Unstoppable
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.
School Daze
Karen Garrett, a promising young doctor, is assigned to perform a difficult operation on Teach, an advanced android who has never "blanked" (had his...
The Android Affair
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
Countdown at Kusini
Inspired by a true story, this drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Despite the Act, the African-American citizens...
Deacons for Defense
An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings...
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
A documentary, combining archival material and live interviews with Marcus Garvey, Jr., and others, which introduces the life and work of the pioneer...
Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood
A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.
Slaves
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of...
Fourteen Hours
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.
No Way Out
A documentary look at the confluence of the Red scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and...
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies...
The Outsider
On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a...
4 Little Girls
James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.
"The Fall" depicts certain scenes in New York City between October 1967 and March 1968, shot by the independent filmmaker, Peter Whitehead. It is a...
The Fall
Promotional film depicting the production and Cannes premiere of the Sidney Lumet film "The Hill."
The Sun... the Sand... the Hill
The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
"Tyler Texas Black Film Collection" (1985) is a promotional film hosted by Ossie Davis.
Tyler Texas Black Film Collection
Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career. The friendship between two families -- one...
All God's Children
Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate...
Freedom Road
The story of Benjamin Banneker, the early American patriot whose achievements rival those of Benjamin Franklin!! Risking his life, working with the...
Freedom Man
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, it...
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.
The Ernest Green Story
Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight he is noticed...
Gladiator
Produced in collaboration with Malcolm X and narrated by Ossie Davis, this call to arms layers revolutionary text from multiple sources with gritty,...
Black Liberation
In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of local slave owners and their families, the eventual...
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Enchanting holiday tale of a young runaway who has broken into an old movie palace, looking for shelter on a snow-filled Christmas Eve. Closed for...
Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve
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...
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
John and Ellen have a picture-perfect life: while John runs a successful business, Ellen works as a schoolteacher, and they've raised two beautiful...
A Vow to Cherish
This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: "The Cemetery," directed by Boris Sagal; "Eyes," directed by...
Night Gallery
A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman...
The Sheriff
After breaking ties with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X became a man marked for death...and it was just a matter of time before his enemies closed...
Death of a Prophet
Panel discussion about the original Broadway production of Lorraine Hansbury's "A Raisin in the Sun."
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a...
The Client
Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers celebrates the ground-breaking career of the first-ever African-American to join the major leagues, talented...
Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such...
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Ossie Davis, Terry McMillan, Horace Julian Bond, Isaac Hayes, Dionne Warwick and many others share their inspiring stories of success in the first...
The History Makers: Success
The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball,...
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
The true story of the only African-American crew to take a Navy warship into combat in World War II.
Proud
Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood,...
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
The night a mysterious stranger rode into the lonely prairie town of West Sage, no one realized their lives would never be the same.
The Legend of the Candy Cane
A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
Bedtime Stories & Songs is a 1986 Sesame Street direct-to-video compilation, released on VHS as part of the My Sesame Street Home Video label. The...
Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories
The work of sculptor Inge Hardison is the subject of this beautiful short portrait of an artist. Hardison is perhaps best known for "Negro Giants in...
Hands of Inge
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
She Hate Me
An African dictator (Wole Soyinka) needs to convince the former king (Rashidi Onikoyi) to legitimize his reign by offering him the ceremonial jam at...
Kongi's Harvest
A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot.
Shock Treatment
A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.
The Unfinished Journey
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic...
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Ray investigates the murder of a judge.
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.
Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick,...
Cop and ½
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
Lincoln
Louis Gossett Jr. takes viewers through a special documentary celebration of the groundbreaking achievements of African-American performers and their...
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
After a deadly plague kills most of the world’s population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and...
The Stand