Description: Black is Beautiful /Black Don’t Crack / The Blacker the Berry the Sweeter the Juice / Once you go Black You’ll never go Back/ Black Lives Matter / list created during Black History Month (the shortest month of the year) which will continue to be updated with all things Black; Black Stories, Black Actors, Black Directors, Black Writers, Black Producers, Black on Black, My thoughts so Black, my skin so Black, I’m rockin’ that black, and everything black, I’m so Black on Black on Black-ity, Black, Black, Black. Say it Loud…I’m Black and I’m Proud (https://youtu.be/tQiSz-gD75s )✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽 Am I Black Enough For You (https://youtu.be/vdKIwEJTI7A )👊🏿
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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.
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Get on the Bus
( 1996 )
A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.
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BlacKkKlansman
( 2018 )
In the early 1970s, Ron Stallworth is hired as the first black officer in the Colorado Springs, Colorado police department. Stallworth is initially assigned to work in the records room, where he faces racial slurs from his coworkers. Stallworth requests a transfer to go undercover, and is assigned to infiltrate a local rally at which national civil rights leader Kwame Ture (birth name Stokely Carmichael) is to give a speech. At the rally, Stallworth meets Patrice Dumas, the president of the black student union at Colorado College. While taking Ture to his hotel, Patrice is stopped by patrolman Andy Landers, a corrupt, racist officer in Stallworth's precinct, who threatens Ture and sexually assaults Patrice..
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Mo' Better Blues
( 1990 )
Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.
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4 Little Girls
( 1997 )
A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.
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First Time Felon
( 1997 )
Inspired by the true story of Greg Yance. In the film, Yance (Epps) is a hood who goes to jail for possession of drugs. He is given a choice: 5 years in jail or a couple of months in boot camp. He chooses boot camp and finds out it is tougher than he thought it would be. He braves it through and comes home a better man. He then has to deal with the real world, and never gives up no matter what the odds.
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A Lesson Before Dying
( 1999 )
In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing of a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didn't have the sense to know what he was doing. Nevertheless convicted, he is sentenced to die, but his godmother and the aunt of the local schoolteacher convince the schoolteacher to go to the convicted man's cell each day to try to reaffirm to him that he is not an animal but a man with dignity.
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Rosewood
( 1997 )
A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African-American community.
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Talk to Me
( 2007 )
The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the 1960s.
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Goodbye Uncle Tom
( 1971 )
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
( 1970 )
In San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.
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Five on the Black Hand Side
( 1973 )
In contrast to most of the violence-laden "blaxploitation" films of the period, this low-budget effort eschews exploitation for humanity and domestic drama. Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
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Watermelon Man
( 1970 )
An extremely bigoted white man finds out the hard (and somewhat humorous) way what it's like being a black man, firsthand!
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Baadasssss!
( 2005 )
How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass is a movie starring Mario Van Peebles, Nia Long, and Joy Bryant. Mario Van Peebles' half-documentary/half-homage to his father Melvin Van Peebles' movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song...
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Hollywood Shuffle
( 1987 )
An actor limited to stereotypical roles because of his ethnicity, dreams of making it big as a highly respected performer. As he makes his rounds, the film takes a satiric look at African American actors in Hollywood.
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The Five Heartbeats
( 1991 )
The story of the rise and fall of an African American vocal group.
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I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
( 1989 )
Jack Spade returns home from the army in his old ghetto neighborhood when his brother, Junebug dies from O.G. - over gold. Jack declares war on Mr. Big, powerful local crime lord. His army is led by John Slade, his childhood idol who used to fight bad guys in the '70s.
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Boarding House Blues
( 1948 )
Tenants of a Harlem boarding house put on a show to save their home.
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Race
( 2016 )
Jesse Owens' quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
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The Birth of a Nation
( 2016 )
Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.
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Harriet
( 2019 )
Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, Harriet tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
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Chocolat
( 2016 )
The rise and fall of the famous clown Chocolat, the first black circus performer who revolutionised the stagnant circus acts and conquered Paris of the Belle Époque with his exuberance and originality.
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Hickey & Boggs
( 1972 )
Bill Cosby and Robert Culp ("I Spy") are united again as private eyes in this Walter Hill-scripted "film noir." Searching for a missing girl, they find themselves involved with vicious criminals and precipitating a string of deaths.
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Life
( 1999 )
In 1932, two strangers are wrongfully convicted and develop a strong friendship in prison that lasts them through the 20th century.
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