African American Filmes

A 1956 Belgian film, Low Light and Blue Smoke, showcases the music of American blues guitarist Big Bill Broonzy, capturing his performance at the...

A documentary exploring the issue of racial identity among African-Americans through the lens of skateboarding.

A 1975 documentary short about how children perceive themselves in terms of their surroundings, family, and ethnicity.

Summaries Shorty's wife throws him out of the house for lying around reading detective thrillers and letting his boss Pigmeat get away with not...

A chilling anthology of three trap genre stories including a polyamorous relationship that’s not quite right and a funeral that becomes a...

To receive their inheritance, business magnate Hudson Graham has mandated his surviving family members return to their homestead and spend his final...

Film commissioned by the Chicago-based publisher of Negro Digest, Ebony, Tan, and Jet to encourage advertisers to reach out to African American...

Four African American families relate their experiences with adoption.

A gritty look at two friends differing viewpoints as they react to a video one of them has made.

In contrast to the lens that focuses exclusively on the racist traditions that are rooted in America’s social history, the moral counterweight...

In the old American South, a black teen with a white adoptive family becomes curious about her roots after hearing birds for the first time.

Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)

Hazel is a romantic comedy that explores the journey of a young woman navigating her personal relationships and discovering the importance of...