Black Identity Movies
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Hair Love
Hair LoveMOVIE
When dad has to unexpectedly step in for mom to do his daughter Zuri’s hair before a big event, what seems like a simple task is anything but as these...
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Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People
Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed PeopleMOVIE
An animated satire on the question of self-image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in t...
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Come Back, Africa
Come Back, AfricaMOVIE
Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
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Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood
Marcus Garvey: Toward Black NationhoodMOVIE
A documentary, combining archival material and live interviews with Marcus Garvey, Jr., and others, which introduces the life and work of the pioneer...
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Sugar Island
Sugar IslandMOVIE
An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded by...
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Bi and By
Bi and ByMOVIE
A man struggles with uniting different aspects of his identity. He finds some solace in a conversation with his cousins who experience similar challen...
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Black Is… Black Ain’t
Black Is… Black Ain’tMOVIE
African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses th...
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Locks
LocksMOVIE
A young man in Oakland, California, wakes with a heavy heart and decides to take a walk through the neighborhood to the local barbershop.
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Voodoo in My Heart
Voodoo in My HeartMOVIE
Emily’s boyfriend has turned into a zombie overnight. She has successfully tied him to the bed frame with a phone charger, but not before he was able...
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Here: A Visual Poem
Here: A Visual PoemMOVIE
An experimental visual poem combining film, animation, photography, and archival footage inviting people to occupy the Black Body and examine the live...
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Where are the African Gods?
Where are the African Gods?MOVIE
A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney Passé, wh...
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Bitch: a word movie
Bitch: a word movieMOVIE
Nantali Indongo, the rapper of the group Nomadic Massive, has long refrained from using the word Bitch in the lyrics of the songs she sings. As an Afr...