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poster Something Good — Negro Kiss

Something Good — Negro Kiss

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

Sounder

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

poster A Fight for Jenny

A Fight for Jenny

95mn - Drama, Short

When Kelsey remarries, her struggle to get custody of her daughter from her first marriage is complicated by her current husband being black.

poster Baby Brother

Baby Brother

Joe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother. His nursemaid takes him to the other side where he meets some kids his age (the rest of Our Gang) where Joe offers three dollars for a baby. Farin…

poster Red Devils

Red Devils

85mn - Adventure, Drama, Action

Adventures of three Red Army soldiers. Misha, Duniasha and Tom Jackson, an afro-American boy, are fighting against enemies.

poster Falcon Rising

Falcon Rising

103mn - Adventure, Action

Chapman is an ex-marine in Brazil's slums, battling the yakuza outfit who attacked his sister and left her for dead.

poster Blood Alley

Blood Alley

86mn - Action, Crime, Thriller

Elijah Kane Is on a new mission for the government after being promised that the CIA will provide information about who put out a hit on his previous team. Kane and the new team have to take down a high l…

poster St. Louis Blues

St. Louis Blues

16mn - Music, Drama

In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and she sings the blues, with chorus and dancers.

poster The Klansman

The Klansman

112mn - Crime, Drama, Thriller

A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young white woman has been raped by a black man. When young black man Garth witnesses the Ku Klux Klan's violent retaliation against his innocent…

poster Within Our Gates

Within Our Gates

79mn - Drama, Romance

Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children.

poster Dragon: The Weapon of God

Dragon: The Weapon of God

106mn - Action, Fantasy, Adventure

A teen with extraordinary superhero powers leads a resistance group in a fierce battle against a psychotic mayor who unleashes police brutality and announces a citywide purge targeting African Americans i…

poster Just Pals

Just Pals

50mn - Drama, Western

Bim (Buck Jones) seems to be his town's biggest loser, but when he takes a needy 13-year-old boy named Bill (George Stone) under his wing, it seems there may be some hope for Bim. After learning about Bil…

poster Hooded Angels

Hooded Angels

102mn - Action, Drama, Western

A gang of women wreak vengeance upon the society that failed them.

poster By Right of Birth

By Right of Birth

Based on a story told by George Johnson, featuring Booker T. Washington. Only four minutes survive.

poster Blackburn

Blackburn

A forest fire and rock-slide trap five bickering college friends in a small Alaskan ghost town with a horrifying history. When they seek refuge inside the torched ruins of Blackburn Asylum they must fight…

poster Hoodlum & Son

Hoodlum & Son

92mn - Comedy, Crime

In 1933, a mischievous ten year old, Archie, is left in the care of his unattentive father, Charlie, a reluctant gangster indebted to mob boss Benny “The Bomb” Palladino. Benny gives Charlie a last chance…

poster Girl on a Chain Gang

Girl on a Chain Gang

Three young travelers driving through the Deep South encounter corrupt police who frame them on false charges, subjecting them to a brutal ordeal of racial hatred and systematic abuse that exposes the dar…

poster The Joe Louis Story

The Joe Louis Story

From the poverty of Alabama sharecropping to the heavyweight championship of the world, Joe Louis battles both devastating opponents in the ring and crushing racism outside it, becoming an American icon w…

poster Last of the Grads

Last of the Grads

113mn - Horror, Thriller

Graduating seniors celebrate their final night together at a school lock-in, but their party turns into a nightmare when the legendary Coast to Coast Killer traps them inside for a deadly game of survival.

poster Dreams Don't Die

Dreams Don't Die

100mn - Drama, Thriller, Short

Two young kids in love, one young graffiti artist and the other a foster-child, find trouble on the mean streets on the other side of the river in New York City. Officer Charles Banks finds young Danny ta…

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