Guide to Documentary Films

African American

A

• Adam Clayton Powell
• Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
• At the River I Stand

B

• Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
• Black Panthers
• The Black West
• BrotherMinister: The Assassination of Malcolm X
• The Buffalo Soldiers

C

• Chanceman's Brothers & Sisters: The Origins of the 20th Century Morris County Black Community

D

• Dark Passages

E

• Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years

F

• Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History
• Freedom on My Mind
• From Swastika to Jim Crow

G

• George Wallace: Settin' The Woods on Fire

H

• Held In Trust: The Story of Lt. Henry O. Flipper
• Human Bondage

I

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

K

• The Klan: Legacy of Hate
• Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History

M

• Malcolm X: Make It Plain
• Midnight Ramble
• Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied
• The Murder of Emmett Till

N

• Native Land
• Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
• The Negro Soldier

R

• Race Movies: The Early History of Black Cinema
• Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
• The Road to Brown

S

• Ship of Slaves: The Middle Passage
• Simple Justice
• The Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The Soundies Era: Black Music Videos From the 1940's
• Strange Fruit

T

• The Tuskegee Airmen

U

• Underground Railroad

Last updated: September 17, 2012

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