african american history

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as ...

“Selma,” as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing ...

Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African American ...

Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves was one of the preeminent gunfighters of the Old West. We explore his life from captive slave to legendary ...

855 women joined the war to fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. Faced with discrimination and a country devastated by war, they ...

A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House’s head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique ...

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation’s history of racial inequality.An in-depth look at ...

In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration-and equal access to the American Dream.

Not Black Enough is a film about class warfare and the cross-tides that African-Americans are dealing with within the black community. The film ...

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving ...

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II. Release: Red Tails 2012 720p ...

The Movie “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” uncovers the true identity of the Children of Israel by proving the true ...

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War’s first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the ...

SUMMER OF SOUL is part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over ...

Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy is a feature-length documentary film highlighting the history of the Crownsville State Mental ...

During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot ...

The history of warfare as it relates to global Black society, broken down into 7 chapters that examines the ways the system of racism wages ...

The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion. 2xCD Release: Unforgivable Blackness The Rise and Fall of Jack ...