Selma, Lord, Selma (1999)
In 1965 Alabama, an 11 year old girl Jurnee Smollett is touched by a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr Clifton Powell and becomes a devout follower But her resolution is tested when
Nightjohn (1996)
Facing a life of servitude in the Antebellum South, a young slave named Sarny meets Nightjohn He teaches her to read and write, and together they set to free other slaves until one planned escape is discovered
The Glass Shield (1994)
Two cops become compelled to act against corruption and discrimination within their police precinct
The Wedding (1998)
In 1950s Massachusetts, a wealthy black woman engaged to a poor white beatnik learns about her family history The stories revolve around the racial and class complexities of interracial and class based marriages
To Sleep with Anger (1990)
A charismatic old acquaintance drifts into town, stirring up trouble for a mild mannered family
Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)
A dramatic look into the life of a family in Watts
Relative Stranger (2009)
After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier
Killer of Sheep (1978)
Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support
My Brothers Wedding (1983)
A man who has struggled personally has conflicts with his upwardly mobile lawyer brother and well to do fiancee and is reluctantly to be the best man at their wedding
Is That Black Enough for You (2022)
Tracks the history of Black cinema, focused mainly on the 70s, with archival and new interviews with many of the key players from the era