Directed by Jon-Sesrie Goff • 2022 • United States
This moving and poetic documentary weaves a plaintive story about generational inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history, especially Black history. Following his father, a minister, in the aftermath of a mass shooting at his church in Charleston, South Carolina, filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff seeks to understand how communities of descendants of enslaved Africans use their faith as a form of survival as they continue to fight for America to live up to its many unfulfilled promises to Black Americans.
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Baldwin’s Nigger
Directed by Horace Ové • 1968 • United Kingdom
Starring James Baldwin, Dick GregoryIn this riveting short documentary by pioneering Trinidadian-British filmmaker Horace Ové, James Baldwin and comedian-activist Dick Gregory speak to a group of radical West Indian students in London about everyth...
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Black Panthers
Directed by Agnès Varda • 1970 • United States
Agnès Varda turns her camera on an Oakland demonstration against the imprisonment of activist and Black Panthers cofounder Huey P. Newton. In addition to evincing Varda’s fascination with her adopted surroundings and her empathy, this perceptive sho...
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Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
Directed by Saul J. Turell • 1979 • United States
Saul J. Turell's Academy Award-winning documentary short Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist, narrated by Sidney Poitier, traces his career through his activism and his socially charged performances of his signature song, "Ol' Man River."
