Well dear readers, I have been watching a lot of documentaries lately (the product of waiting to go back to work) so I thought I would share the one’s I have seen and my thoughts with you. However, the list alone is a multi-page word document (when I commit, I commit; Oops) so I will start with the list of African American specific documentaries and go from there:
4 Little Girls (1997)
A Man Named Pearl (2006)
A Question of Color (1992)
A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs & Freedom (1996)
African American Lives (2006)
African American Lives 2 (2008)
All of Us: Protecting Black Women Against AIDS (2009)
America Beyond the Color Line (2005)
BaadAssss Cinema: A Bold Look at 70s Blaxploitation Films (2002)
Banished (2006)
Bastards of the Party (2005)
Between Black and White (1994)
Black American Conservatism: An Exploration of Ideas (1992)
Black Is – Black Ain’t: A Personal Journey Through Black Identity (1995)
Black Like Who? (1997)
Black on Black (1968)
Blacking Up: Hip Hop’s Remix of Race and Identity (2010)
Breaking the Huddle (2008)
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2002)
By River, By Rail (1998)
Chester Himes: A Rage in Harlem (2009)
Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004)Citizen King (2004)
COINTELPRO: The FBI’s War on Black America (2009)
Color Adjustment (1991)
Crisis in Levittown (1957)
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty (2003)
Ethnic Notions (1986)
Eyes on the Prize Series (1987)
- Awakenings, 1954-1956
- Fighting Back, 1957-1962
- Ain’t Scared of Your Jails, 1960-1961
- No Easy Walk 1962-1966
- Mississippi, Is This America, 1962-1964
- Bridge to Freedom, 1965
- The Time Has Come, 1964-1965
- Two Societies, 1965-1968
- Power! 1967-1968
- The Promised Land, 1967-1968
- Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More, 1964-1972
- A Nation of Law?, 1967-1968
- The Keys to the Kingdom, 1974-1980
- Back to the Movement, 1979-mid 1980s
Fannie Lou Hamer: Voting Rights Activists (2009)
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans (2008)
Freedom Riders (2009)
Good Hair (2009)
Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Work of Gordon Parks (2000)
Hoop Dreams (1994)
It’s a Damn Shame: Homosexuality in Hop-Hop (2006)
Jazz (2001)
Just Black?: Multi-Racial Identity (1992)
Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History (1998)
Lady Day Sings the Blues (2005)
Malcolm X: Make It Plain (1994)
Midnight Ramble: Oscar Micheaux and the Story of Race Movies (1994)
The N Word: Divided We Stand (2006)
Passin’ It On: the Black Panthers’ Search for Justice (2006)
Prom Night in Mississippi (2009)
Racism in America: Small Town 1950s Case Study
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man, Celebrated Writer (2009)
Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (2004)
Roads to Memphis: the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010)
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2005)
Secret Daughter (1996)
Sisters of Selma: Bearing Witness for Change (2007)
Slavery and the Making of America (2004)
Slavery by Another Name (2012)
Soul Food Junkies (2012)
Soundtrack for a Revolution (2009)
Strange Fruit (2002)
The Abolitionists (2013)
The Black List: Volume 1 (2008)
The Black List: Volume 2 (2009)
The Black List: Volume 3
The Black Power Mixtape, 1967-1975 (2011)
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (1998)
The Black Wall Street
The Central Park Five (2013)
The Darker Side of Black (1996)
The Language You Cry In (1998)
The Loving Story (2011)
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry (1991)
The Mirror Lied (1999)
The Murder of Emmett Till (2003)
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (2004)
The Two Nations of Black America (2008)
Two Dollars and A Dream (1989)
Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives (2003)
Underground Railroad: the William Still Story (2012)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2005)
Wattstax (1973)
We Shall Overcome (1988)
When the Levies Broke (2006)
With All Deliberate Speed (2005)
