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Black Film Archive is a curated database of Black films released between 1898 and 1999 that are currently streaming on online platforms like YouTube, Netflix, and Tubi. [2] Some of the films are free to view due to public domain laws. [2] The site is inclusive of approximately 250 Black films as of its August 26, 2021 launch. [3]
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] [58] or Angela Robinson's short film D.E.B.S. (2003) turned feature-length adaptation in 2004.
This is a list of hood films. These films focus on the culture and life of African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and, in some cases, Asian-Americans or White Americans who live in segregated, low-income urban communities. This list also includes comparably economically disenfranchised and crime adjacent communities in other countries such as ...
Looking for movies about Black History? Here are 23 film options featuring stories about Black historical figures, and where and how to stream them.
Films about American slavery (2 C, 55 P) Pages in category "African-American films" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 452 total.
An American Girl Story – Melody 1963: Love Has to Win; American Pastoral; Barry TV; The Birth of a Nation; Fences; Free State of Jones; Hidden Figures; Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party* I Am Not Your Negro* (Germany/US) In the Hour of Chaos* LBJ; Loving (UK/US) Moonlight; The North Star; Stay Woke: The Black Lives ...
Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s: Blackness and Genre (Studies in African American History and Culture). NY: Routledge; 1 edition.
In the early days of cinema, African-American roles were scarce and often filled with stereotypes. Pioneers like Oscar Micheaux, one of the first significant African-American filmmakers, countered these narratives with films like The Homesteader (1919) and Body and Soul (1925), which were part of the "race film" genre and tackled issues such as racial violence, economic oppression, and ...