Circle Unbroken: A Gullah Journey from Africa to America

Stamped from the Beginning

Using innovative animation and expert insights, this documentary based on Ibram X. Kendi's bestseller explores the histo...

Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

The true story of the neighborhood that inspired David Simon's fictional HBO television series "Tremé", from slave revol...

Revealed: The Hunt for Bin Laden

The History Channel marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11 with a new groundbreaking documentary about the biggest manhunt i...

Imperfection Salad

Charlotte Biltekoff is the author of “Eating Right in America” where she traces the food reform movements throughout Ame...

Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street

This documentary celebrates the Black cultural renaissance that existed in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, OK, and inve...

Surviving Clotilda

In July 1860, the schooner Clotilda slipped quietly into the dark waters of Mobile, Ala., holding 110 Africans stolen fr...

Jazz Daimyo

Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the marke...

And the Dogs Were Silent

For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008)...

Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

Alternating interview segments, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from Aimé Césaire's play La Tragédie du roi Ch...

Death of a Nation

Parallels are drawn between Abraham Lincoln's presidency and the presidency of Donald Trump. Not since 1860 have the Dem...

Abina and the Important Men

Set against the backdrop of the Gold Coast of West Africa in 1876, "Abina and the Important Men" follows the harrowing t...

John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk

John Henrik Clarke talks about Black history.

Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back

Maurice Hines, a charming, gay African-American entertainer navigates the complications of show business while grieving...

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The Divided Union: The Story of the American Civil War

Peter Batty presents a gripping account of the bloodshed and horror of the American Civil War. From the origins of the u...

Get on Up

A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

Lisa Limone and Maroc Orange: A Rapid Love Story

Love blossoms between Maroc, a singing boat refugee, and Lisa, a collector of singing seashells who dreams about love.

The Middle Passage

"Explores the 400-year era of the transatlantic slave trade, when millions of Africans were kidnapped and shipped to the...

Porgy and Bess

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing co...

Teddy the Rough Rider

This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissio...