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Clockers

From Spike Lee, the legendary director of Do the Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, Jungle Fever,...

Crooklyn

From Spike Lee, the legendary director of Do the Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, Malcolm X,...

Fela Kuti: "Music is the Weapon"

Fela Kuti is to African music what Bob Marley is to reggae: its prophet. All contemporary forms of...

Finding Fela

Finding Fela tells the story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's life, his music, his social and political...

Flex is Kings

Flex Is Kings takes place in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, where high crime rates and...

Ganja & Hess

Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and horror, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary...

Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition, this beguiling...

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

This electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of pop culture mega-icon Grace...

Jungle Fever

From Spike Lee, the legendary director of Do the Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, Malcolm X,...

Liberty Kid

Ilya Chaiken's "tender, wise, and deceptively low key" (New York Times) film Liberty Kid captures...

Lost in the Stars

The American Film Theatre's Lost in the Stars transforms Alan Paton's world-famous novel of racial...

Mo' Better Blues

From Spike Lee, the legendary director of Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, Clockers and...

NAS: Time Is Illmatic

Twenty years after the release of Nas's groundbreaking debut album Illmatic, Nas: Time is Illmatic...

Native Son

One of the most controversial novels of its day, Richard Wright's Native Son (first published in...

The New Public

In fall 2006, former DJ, point guard and teacher turned first-time principal, James O'Brien, opened...

Personal Problems

This entirely African American-conceived and produced ensemble drama is the result of a...

Pioneers of African-American Cinema

This collection of the works of America's legendary first African-American filmmakers is the only...

Princess Tam Tam

Buoyed by the success of the French musical Zou Zou a year earlier, the same team created in...

STOP

The feature length documentary STOP follows three years in the life of David Ourlicht, one of the...

Sidewalk Stories

A young artist living in New York, on the fringes of the financial district and its rushing crowds,...

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Conceived as a super production on the scale of Foolish Wives and The Phantom of the Opera, this...

The Wound

Shortlisted for the Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film! The Wound is an exploration...

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