Spike Lee’s award-winning documentary follows the events that preceded and followed Hurricane Katrina’s catastrophic passage through New Orleans in 2005.

Historic footage and leading voices of the era examine the “Bobby Phenomenon” of the 1960s and the legacy of the man who helped redefine the country.

Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to cross baseball’s color line and become one of the most beloved men in America. A fierce integrationist, Robinson used his immense fame…

This revealing portrait of comedian, activist, pop-culture icon and thought leader Dick Gregory documents his many personal reinventions throughout the decades, from celebrity to civil rights hero and beyond, while…

American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and others who have left an indelible impression on the…

On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising stars of black American culture onto…

On a Caribbean island, a rich landowner’s son, Maxwell Fleury, is fighting for political office against black labor leader David Boyeur. As if the contentious election weren’t enough, there are…

A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson,…

The life of singer-songwriter and activist Harry Chapin, who spent his fame and fortune trying to end world hunger before his tragic passing.

Examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in US society from 1967 to 1975. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists in the United States during…

A documentary about Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted University of Texas music student who finds herself at the epicenter of racial controversy, struggling against the odds and ultimately ascending to…

Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.

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

An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of…

Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He’s a tailor, but he can’t work because his back has given out. He…

Robert Altman’s story is a riff on race, class, and power cross-cuts between the two kidnappings and the background of corrupt politics and virtuoso jazz music. It all takes place…

For one week in February 1968, Johnny Carson gave up his chair to Harry Belafonte, the first time an African-American had hosted a late night TV show for a whole…

A chronicle of the final word chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted chief who confronted an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political…

Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby group within this hilarious misadventure as friends Steve and Wardell, that venture uptown into some swanky nightclub. Unfortunately, thieves struck on the club and sneak…

The narrative of this cigarette-maker Carmen along with also the Spanish cavalry soldier Don Jose is interpreted into a modern-day narrative of a parachute mill employee and a stalwart GI…

The narrative occurs in other America where the elephants have been members of social elite, and whites are people of town ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white employee in a…

In 1968 the lifestyles of a retired doorman, hotel director, lounge singer, bus-boy, beautician among many others seep in the aftermath of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination at the Ambassador Hotel…

Most individuals know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer. This movie finds his important contribution to and his management within the civil rights motion in America and to…

Working against the writing of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, manager Raoul Peck creates a meditation about what it means to be Black in the USA.