Black People Movies

Radical resistance in the postwar British Caribbean community, from the 1948 Nationality Act to the 1958 Brixton riots.

Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home wit...

Set in Red Hook, a Brooklyn neighborhood on the verge of gentrification, GOOD FUNK follows three generations of citizens whose lives intersect through...

A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loy...

French actors Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Aïssa Maïga, Sonia Rolland, Deborah Lukumuena, Marie-France Malonga, Gary Dourdan and others speak up on the reali...

Ben Caldwell’s Medea, a collage piece made on an animation stand and edited entirely in the camera, combines live action and rapidly edited still imag...

Luz and Denise grow up in the midst of the adversities of being LGBT in the extreme south of the city of São Paulo. Between Vogue and poetry, from chu...

The ornate pavilions of cinematographs, boxing booths and menageries at Hull Fair.

Jonathan and Romario are two Afro-Ecuadorian children from the Chota Valley, one of the poorest regions of Ecuador. Their fate can be one of two: to b...

"PUSHOUT" is a feature length film confronting the criminalization and miseducation of African American girls that has led to their alarming high scho...

Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946.

"River of Hope" tells the story of how a former slave Mary Barnes Cabell and her children helped found the first college for African Americans in West...

In response to Marielle Franco's execution, the 2018 elections turned into the biggest political upheaval led by black women that Brazil has ever seen...

Documentary short that explores the meaning of the locals’ African identity through the Carnival festivities.

Freedom means only one thing: riding your dirt bike in the street, front wheel aimed at the sky.

The Other Side of the Atlantic is a documentary that builts a bridge in the ocean that separates Brazil and Africa. The film tackles the cultural exch...

Elong E'nabe is the story of six year old Angela, a black girl with Senegalese roots born in Belgium. The region they in live now is known for it's na...