Do the Right Thing
The film shows life on a Sunday in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Sal Fragione, who has owned the same pizza shop for over 25 years, opens it every day. Since he…
Cat People (1982)
Cat People were created way back when people sacrificed their females to leopards and mated with them. Cat People are similar to human beings, but they must mat with other…
Jungle Fever
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He’s quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship…
Just Cause
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a…
Baby Geniuses
Scientist hold talking, super-intelligent babies captive, but things take a turn for the worse when a mix-up occurs between a baby genius and its twin.
A Thousand Words
After meeting with a spiritual teacher, Jack McCall (played by Eddie Murphy) discovers an unusual tree in his backyard. Jack realizes that every word he speaks drops a leaf from…
The Incident (1967)
Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man….
A Simple Wish
Male fairy godmother Murray ties to help 8-year-old Anabel fulfill her "simple wish" that her cab-driver father Oliver wins the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic wand…
Decoration Day
America
Color Adjustment
An analysis of the evolution of television's earlier unflattering portrayal of African-Americans from 1948 until 1988, when they are depicted as prosperous and having achieved the American Dream, a portrayal…
Cop and ½
Devon Butler is an eight-year old who dreams of being a cop. He watches police TV shows, knows police procedures, and plays cops and robbers with his friend Ray. One…
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
A profile of the African-American actress Beah Richards, who was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
Discovering William Greaves
Documentary spanning the career of independent Black American filmmaker William Greaves, with particular emphasis on the experimental production Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1992).