Ruby Dee

A documentary on the career of William Greaves, featuring Greaves, his wife and co-producer Louise Archambault, actor Ruby Dee, filmmaker St. ...

A journey into the life and work of beat poet and activist Bob Kaufman and his insistence that poetry is fundamental to humanity’s moral ...

The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands.

For a seventy-year period, when America cared little about the education of African-Americans, and discrimination was law and custom, The ...

In “America,” Dr. Maureen Brennan, a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center, encounters her newest patient, a bi-racial boy named ...

Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his ...

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, ...

Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her “simple wish” – that her father ...

BabyCo is the world’s leading manufacturer in baby products. However, what the public doesn’t know, is that Drs Kinder and Heep, two ...

A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the ...

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 ...

From Amos ‘n’ Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many roles on primetime television. ...

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He’s quite rightly worried that the racial ...

A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets ...

After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is ...

A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.

An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother’s love for a foster daughter.

Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.

Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.

The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation. Preserved by the Academy Film ...

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems ...

Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, ...

An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager.

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

Lorie Walker is a small town girl whose big dreams of becoming a dancer come true when she becomes a star in the Hip-Hop video world. But she ...

Two Hollywood filmmakers attempt to find Morgan Freeman in Mississippi and convince him to star in their next movie. When life gets in their way ...

A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria’s family. There ...

Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his ...

Based on writer Maya Angelou’s eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years ...