African American Documentary Films

Listed below are documentary films that are about African-American topics and/or have been produced by notable African-Americans.

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african american documentaries
Title
4 Little Girls
Eyes on the Prize
Hoop Dreams
Michael Jackson This Is It
Untold Story of Emmett Till, The
When We Were Kings
 
black documentaries
Title
60 Minutes Presents: Obama: All Access - Barack Obama's Road to the White House  
500 Years Later 
Adam Clayton Powell  
African American Lives 
African American Lives 2 
Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance 
American Cultural History - African Americans 
American Cultural History - Racism
Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery 
Arthur Ashe - Citizen of the World  
Black History: An Historical Overview 
Black History: Contributions to Society in the Arts, Sports, Science, and More 
Black History: From Civil War Through Today 
Black Indians: An American Story 
Century of Black Cinema, A 
Citizen King  
Dreams of Obama  
Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution  
Federation of Black Cowboys, The  
First Person Singular: John Hope Franklin  
Flyers: In Search of a Dream  
For Love of Liberty  
Frederick Douglass (A&E DVD Archives)  
Great Day in Harlem, A 
Harlem Renaissance / Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Nat King Cole 
History Of Black Achievement In America  
Improvisation: Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald and More 
In Remembrance of Martin  
Jazz : A Film By Ken Burns  
Jazz Icons 9 DVD Box Set 
Jazz Icons, Vol. 2 (8 DVD Box Set)
Jazz Masters: Vintage Collection 
Jumpin' and Jivin', Vol. 1 
Leaving Cleaver  
Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry, The  
Morgan Lacrosse Story, The  
Miles Davis Story, The
Movies of Color - Black Southern Cinema 
Nightfighters: The story of the 332nd Fighter Group, Tuskegee Airmen  
Only the Ball Was White  
Percy Julian - Forgotten Genius  
Reconstruction: The Second Civil War 
Road to the White House (December 28, 2008)  
Roots of Resistance: A Story of the Underground Railroad 
Say Amen, Somebody 
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy  
Simon Schama's Rough Crossings  
Sisters of Selma  
Slavery and the Making of America 
The Tuskegee Airmen  
Two Nations of Black America  
Unchained Memories 
Underground Railroad  
Unforgivable Blackness - The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson 
Voyage of La Amistad: A Quest for Freedom  
Wattstax 
Yes We Can! - The Barack Obama Story  
 
 

 

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