"This is war. I’ve never seen it, but I lived through it today.” So says a woman from the West Philadelphia neighborhood under as...

I've now watched three films by Joseph P Mawra, if you count Miss Leslie's Dolls, directed by Joseph G Prieto, who might be th...

Slavery by Another Name challenges one of America’s most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with Abr...

Melvin Van Peebles (a key black filmmaker who was acknowledged in a 1967 Festival tribute) narrates this documentary, made for European...

Illuminating a mostly forgotten but deeply chilling event, “The Tulsa Lynching of 1921” documents what is probably the worst race ri...

The most electrifyingly timely movie playing in New York was made in 1965. Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers is famous, but for...

In this black-and-white cinéma-vérité documentary, writer James Baldwin and comedian/activist Dick Gregory debate passionately in front...

"In the days before his execution, Nat Turner will agree to tell his story. But after his death, his words will become the propert...

As comprehensive analysis of the institutional mechanisms of museologics, Les statues meurent aussi’s (Statues Also Die, 1953) prime...

King Leopold’s Ghost is not a movie to be evaluated simply as a piece of cinema seeking to balance form and content. Of the form there ...

The fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom occasions a New York screening of the rarely shown documentar...

A vital archival document. No talking heads. All images sourced from news footage and home camcorders. Begins with the Watts protests a...

The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973), the directorial debut of director Ivan Dixon, a rising star in the black American film world, ha...

Unique in African-American History, Black Liberation is not just a "movie on Malcolm X." It incarnates his authentic spirit ...

“Filmed and edited by William Klein … in collaboration with Eldridge Cleaver and Robert Scheer” read the red-lettered credits at the beg...

Political philosopher and visionary, husband and father, dynamic orator and militant minister. In his lifetime, Malcolm X was many men....

Its fans include Paul Thomas Anderson and the Coen brothers, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock and Dave Chapelle. Its director is the not-so-fam...