An epic portrait of award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde.

Exposes the little known story of Sakia Gunn, a 15 year old student who was fatally stabbed in a gay hate crime in Newark, NJ.

This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and whites live in a complex world of cotton, labor, and racial conflict.

A celebration of women who have committed themselves to midwifery amidst powerful misconceptions about the practice and virulent opposition from practitioners of Western medicine.

Produced collectively by women, this documentary is a valuable historical document of the origins of the modern women's movement in the United States.

An epic portrait of award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde.

A very different look at the Middle Passage

A DREAM IS WHAT YOU WAKE UP FROM explores the role of Black families in American society.

An original and visionary work, this cathartic film links the present with the ancestral past.

This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and whites live in a complex world of cotton, labor, and racial conflict.

This documentary captures the rich legacy of ancient African religions practiced in the United States.

“Every diaspora is the passage from unity to multiplicity.” Manthia Diawara’s 2009 conversations with Édouard Glissant detail the latter’s theory of Relation and the concept of Tout-monde.

With testimony from Lorde's colleagues, students and friends, this film documents Audre Lorde's lasting legacy in Germany.

INVISIBLE ROOTS is an intimate look at Afro-Mexicans living in Southern California as they discuss complex issues of racial, national and cultural identities.

NEGRITA—a Spanish term meaning “little Black girl”—is a personal and probing documentary exploring how anti-Blackness in American and Latino cultures shapes the identities of Afro-Latina women.

THE THROWAWAYS is a timely and provocative look at the impact of mass incarceration and police brutality on black males in America. Recommended by Video Librarian Magazine.

Everyone deserves the best defense. They fight for it. GIDEON’S ARMY takes an inside look at the criminal justice system from the perspective of three young public defenders in the South.

A documentary about the 1963 Coral Gardens “incident,” a moment just after independence when the Jamaican government rounded up, jailed and tortured hundreds of Rastafarians.

Three Black queer individuals reflect on their connections to their ancestors. Inspired by Sakia Gunn's legacy, the film meditates on grief, death, queerness and ancestorhood.

In 1968, under intensive community pressure from Black and Latino communities, the State of New York chose three New York City school districts to become part of an experiment in community-run education.

Nine months after the riot. Malcolm X Memorial Services held at I.S. 201 in New York, March 1968, and scenes from Newark, March 1968.

Documents the significant role of Voodoo in Haitian culture from the perspectives of Voodoo priests, government officials, historians and politicians.

"The #1 Bus Chronicles" uses a small sociological microcosm – a bus stop on an industrial highway in New Jersey – to intimately portray some of the most marginalized lives in America today - the ‘working poor’, the recently incarcerated, and immigration asylum seekers.

AFRO-PUNK, the movie that sparked the movement!

The Abrew family has been based in Scotland since the end of the 19th century and worked in Vaudeville, theater, and later, in film made throughout Europe where they faced racial discrimination and exoticization as performers for primarily white audiences.

Voices of 1960s Black Montréal rise through unseen archives.

Berkeley students organized a mass sit-in and a building take-over after the State Regents refused to allow Elridge Cleaver to teach Political Science 139X for credit.

Shot in Philadelphia, this documentary features the work of female Hip-Hop artists Lady B, Schoolly D, Rennie Harris, Bahamadia, and Ursula Rucker.

Toni Blackman and the FreeStyle Union are challenging the male-dominated world of Hip-Hop and empowering women to speak their minds in freestyle workshops.

A short documentary about the reunion and repair between Mike Africa Jr and his mother Debbie Africa—a formerly incarcerated political prisoner of the MOVE9.

This short film illuminates the African-American experience by lyrically interweaving spoken-word narration of Margaret Walker’s epic poem, “For My People” with contemporary images and rare 19th century cyanotypes (blue photographic prints known as “blueprints”) of African Americans.

DEPORTED follows members of a unique group of outcasts in Haiti: criminal deportees from North America.

Bobby Seale, a member of the Black Panthers, talks about his treatment as a political prisoner and his involvement in the Black Liberation and anti-war movements.

A Documentary Film about Multiracial Identity

Formed on the Lower East Side of New York to side step high prices, poor quality, and weight cheating of local supermarkets.

A coming-of-age story about the friendship between two young Black girls growing up in 1957 Harlem, Phyllisia Cathy from a newly arrived, upwardly mobile Caribbean family, and Edith Jackson, Harlem-born and raised.

A powerful document of a community vigil for Islan Nettles, a Transgender Womyn of Color who was beaten to death in 2013.

The 20-year journey of an unlikely band of activists who take an ancient music from the hills of Haiti and reinvent it on the streets of Brooklyn.

How did a handful of students contribute to the Black Power Movement worldwide, and change the course of history in Trinidad and Tobago?

Two videos use footage compiled from over 40 social justice media productions to chronicle the perspectives of political prisoners and war within the United States.

A shocking exposé of how a group of ordinary citizens, passionate about the future of their legendary neighborhood, are systematically shut out of the city’s decision-making process.

In 1943, 300 middle-class “coloured” women from across the West Indies were recruited to the ATS, a branch of the British Army during WW2.

Chronicles the evolution of popular Garifuna music from Belize and explores the role of the music in Belize's cultural awakening.

Media artist Seyi Adebanjo tells a tale not often heard about gender and indigenous Yorùbá spirituality.

NAS: TIME IS ILLMATIC delves deep into the making of Nas’ 1994 debut album, Illmatic, and the social conditions that influenced its creation.

Young African Cherokees present a candid discussion on love, tribe, family, and race.

This first chapter of LITTLE BROTHER begins a series of films where Black boys start the conversation on a topic they rarely get to discuss: Love.

Filmed in Tucson, Arizona, the young men discuss life in the Southwest and the current state of race relations.

A documentary that connects the Lesbian and Gay Marriage Equality movement with the Black Civil Rights Movement.

SALTY DOG BLUES looks at a group of U.S.merchant marines from 1937-1989; their relationship to the National Maritime Union, a union merger, and a dispute over lost health benefits.

New updated version includes footage of New York State Governor David Paterson signing the 2010 Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights.

The struggles for justice by the families of people that have died in police custody.

Saints Rising is a documentary presenting the voices of New Orleans years after Hurricane Katrina and the breech of the levees.

HEART OF HARLEM traces the life and times of Holcombe Rucker, who founded a summer basketball league while working for New York Citys Parks Department in order to give young people a positive alternative to the streets.

This short documentary examines the decisions involved in growing and wearing dreadlocks in African-American communities.

Activist and poet Walidah Imarisha traveled to New Orleans and other neighboring towns shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area. Through interviews with residents, activists and city officials, Imarisha succinctly captured the pain, loss and hope of the people of New Orleans.

Olga Nenya is a foster mother to sixteen Black orphans in Ukraine - where 99.9% of the population is white and where race matters.

Through Hip-Hop music and Afro-Brazilian dance, musician Anderson Sá rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police.

A realistic view of a 12-year-old African American girl's voyage through early adolescence, peer pressure, friendship and love.

This videotape is a meditation on contemporary race relations.

A videotape of a live performance--a mythopoetic rendering of the original encounters between African, Indigenous and European peoples in the present day "border regions".

DEMARCATIONS uses the female body as a landscape to explore memories of a rape.

A young woman moves to New York City from the Midwest to develop her writing. Distracted from her new creative lifestyle, she is soon challenged by her best friend to work harder to foster her own growth as an artist.

The documentary examines the concept of African identity as it has evolved over the generations in Trinidad & Tobago.

Calypso like you’ve never heard before.

The most famous calypso artists invite you to return to the roots of Caribbean music.

BOYS OF SUMMER is an inspiring documentary about Curaçao's Little League Team.

WHATEVER IT TAKES follows the amazing first year of a cutting-edge public high school in NYC’s South Bronx.

Captures a lively summit in Havana between Toronto dub poet d’bi.young, exiled American activist Nehanda Abiodun, and feminist Cuban hip-hop trio Las Krudas.

The Hip-Hop Christian movement has been uplifting youth by delivering positive religious messages that are not about drugs, sex, or hate but of hope and peace.

A queer oddball seeks approval from Black peers despite a serious lack of hip-hop credentials. This short animated documentary takes you on a quest for belonging.

After criminal charges were dropped against four Los Angeles police officers accused in the brutal beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles erupted. This video offers a rare view of the rebellion that began within minutes of the verdict.

BEYOND THE BRICKS follows two African American students as they struggle to stay on track in the Newark public school system.

Keisha Johnson, an African American soldier, goes AWOL in Iraq after she flees a violent incident.

Struggle for self-governance on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua.

This short fiction piece explores the thoughts and dreams of a middle-aged Afro-Caribbean immgrant in England on her deathbed.

Revealing Portrait of Canadian leader Lincoln Alexander.