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Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used in the 1950s to create the first immortal human cell line resulting in medical breakthroughs.
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Raisin in the sun
An insurance check can allow the Youngers to escape their frustrating life in a crowded Chicago apartment, but escape means different things to each family member.
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Black Panther
When T'Challa rises to the throne as the King of Wakanda, he faces challenges to his nation and turns to his powers as the Black Panther to save the kingdom.
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BlacKkKlansman
Based on a true story, in the early 1970s, an African American police officer orchestrates a plan to infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan.
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Killer of sheep
Set in the Watts community in Los Angeles, a sensitive African American man finds himself numbed by his work in a slaughterhouse.
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Go tell it on the mountain
Dramatization of James Baldwin's partly autobiographical first novel, of a young Harlem man growing up in a strict family in the 1930s.
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Sorry to bother you
When telemarketer Cassius Green discovers the key to professional success, he finds his life at work becoming more and more bizarre.
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He got game
A convict is given a second chance to be a father so that he can convince his son, the nation's top basketball recruit, to play for the Governor's alma mater.
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Harriet
Follows the life of American abolitionist Harriet Tubman as she escapes from slavery and leads other slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad.
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Grace Jones
Profiles Jamaican-American singer, model, and actress Grace Jones, featuring music performances, studio and backstage footage, and a trip to her home in Jamaica.
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Ray Charles live
Ray Charles sings his classics accompanied by the Edmonton Symphony.
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Quest
A husband and wife operate a recording studio in the basement of their home while raising their daughter in an impoverished neighborhood in Philadelphia.
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Reconstruction
Explores the historical period following the American Civil War known as Reconstruction.
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Toni Morrison
A biography of Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison.
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I am not your negro
Through archival interviews with James Baldwin and other footage, tells the story of racism in the United States in the twentieth century.
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Josephine Baker story
In the early part of the century a young American black woman goes to Paris and becomes the first international superstar.
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King
Documents the life of civil rights visionary Dr. Martin Luther King and explores the relevance of his message in today's world.
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Bronx Gothic
Bronx Gothic is a portrait of writer and performer Okwui Okpokwasili as she stages a final tour for her one-woman show. Although the play within the play of Bronx Gothic is set in the 1980s, Okwui's piece is timely. She explains in the film that her depiction of a "vibrating brown body" is political insofar as all "black and brown bodies" have been inscribed with a history of violence in our culture. She says in the film that Americans have become "acculturated to seeing brown bodies in pain" and she hopes that "Bronx Gothic" will allow audience members to grow their empathic capacity while seeing her in a radical dance that presents the brown body from a new perspective. We follow Okwui as she tours "Bronx Gothic" around the country and conducts talkbacks with her audience. During these sessions, she interrogates both the formal elements of her show (e.g. durational performance, fragmented storytelling) and the political ramifications of her characters' actions and environment. This leads members of her audience to share emotional stories from their own lives, during some of the talk-backs.
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Queen & Slim
When a first date traffic stop results in the death of a police officer, an African American couple goes on the run and their relationship grows as they are pursued by the police.
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