Movies: Black

Beat poem parable to black youth....

A blind ex-hustler and a fast-talking disabled con man team up to find the culprit responsible for their welfare checks being stolen....

Terra and Marcus move to the suburbs with daughter Sabrina. Terra suspects their Black neighbors, especially Myra Grover. As the week passes, Myra's behavior escalates, revealing a sinister truth she's hiding from the neighborhood....

Two friends, one Black and one white, journey to their Southern ancestral homes, exploring reparations' meaning. Their travels uncover opportunities that transform their bond, communities, reclaiming and reckoning with their roots....

An oral history documentary of people of color at Miami University during its Public Ivy period—from 1970 to the early 2000s....

When Zeke attends a cookout with his estranged father, Nick, he initially struggles to feel comfortable with his boisterous black family. After witnessing Nick do a comedic re-telling of his colonoscopy, Zeke finally settles in....

Lindani, a neurotic young trans man, struggles to tell his partner Tam he loves them after a random encounter with a stranger shakes his self-confidence. But as he finds himself pushed and pulled in all directions by the perceptions of others, can Li...

Sebz traces an intimate and heartbreaking journey through her past and present, exploring the nuances of her identity as a non-binary, black, asexual trans person. Through an introspective narrative, Sebz reflects on the abuse she suffered as a child...

A sweet grandmother in Atlanta is about to lose her family home, but not if her two clever and off-the-chain grandsons have anything to say about it....

Set on a university campus in 1975, this film follows the lives of Q (a Black adoptee), her roommate Jam (the daughter of former Black Panthers), and Marcus (a student who has experienced the school’s discrimination firsthand) as they bond together t...

Beginning in 1965 with Black Is, Tambellini launched a series of politically charged experimental films that explore the expressive possibilities of black as a dominant color and idea. For the most part Tambellini’s seven “black films” are made witho...

The artist walks through a garden, with additional footage featuring Black trans activist Marsha P. Johnson....

A group of friends got together to make a short film as a school project....

A documentary drama addressing the shared tribulations and historical unity between Black and Jewish Americans....

The Black Film Series, a sequence of seven films made between 1965-69, is a primitive, sensory exploration of the medium, which ranges from total abstraction to the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, the Vietnam War, and black teenagers in Coney Island....

Short documentary in which Ivan Barbosa follows Tarikh Janssen's career switch. The actor leaves the movie world behind and returns to top swimming. Together, Barbosa and Janssen explore taboo topics such as white innocence, Black identity and the Bl...

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Comprising new and archival footage, this film observes rituals performed by the South Asian, African, and Caribbean diaspora in Britain, demonstrating an appreciation of land, community values, and the universe we share with other species and planet...

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