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African-American women and African-American gay and lesbian women have also made advances directing films, in Radha Blank's comic The 40-Year-Old Version (2020), Ava DuVernay's fanciful rendition of the children's classic A Wrinkle in Time [1] [59] or Angela Robinson's short film D.E.B.S. (2003) turned feature-length adaptation in 2004.
This list of African American documentary films (1930s–present) includes films that were made by African Americans, as well as films on the topic of African Americans. (Films marked with an asterisk (*) are specifically about the Civil Rights Movement.)
In 2013, five African-American films were released (12 Years a Slave, Fruitvale Station, Lee Daniels' The Butler, Best Man Holiday and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom). [citation needed] The release of such films had a broader impact on the film industry with movie attendance by African Americans growing by thirteen percent compared to 2012. [12]
Many race films were produced by white-owned film companies outside the Hollywood-centered American film industry, such as Million Dollar Productions in the 1930s and Toddy Pictures in the 1940s. One of the earliest surviving examples of a black cast film aimed at a black audience is A Fool and His Money (1912) , directed by French emigree ...
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Bait (2000 film) Bamboozled; The Banker (2020 film) Barbershop (film) Barbershop 2: Back in Business; Barbershop: The Next Cut; Beast (2022 American film) Being Claudine; Belly (film) Bessie (film) The Best Man Holiday; The Best Man (1999 film) Beverly Hills Cop III; Beware (film) Big George Foreman; Big Momma's House; Big Momma's House 2; Big ...
Bonus: An Introduction (7 min.); Bonus: The Films of Oscar Micheaux (8 min.) Regeneration: Richard E. Norman: 1923 11 min. Donald Sosin The Flying Ace: Richard E. Norman 1928 65 min. Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra Ten Nights in a Bar Room: CPFC 1926 64 min.. Donald Sosin Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies: Rev. Solomon Sir Jones: 1924-26 16 min ...
Films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915) [3] and Gone with the Wind (1939) became controversial because they gave a favorable depiction. In 1940, The Santa Fe Trail gave a strong condemnation of abolitionist John Brown's attacks on slavery. [4] The American civil rights movement in the 1950s made defiant slaves into heroes. [5]