Titles tagged "African American studies"
American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
This hybrid fiction-documentary engaged the services of two actual legal teams to create a rigorous, legally based fictional—yet unscripted—trial that never happened for one of the nation’s most disturbing tragedies.
Available on DVD 
Victorious
Spend one season with the D.C. Divas. One of America's toughest full-contact female football teams.
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Brothers of the Black List
The longest litigated civil rights case in American history.
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Finding the Gold Within
Six young black men go to college to redefine society's images and low expectations. They are not prepared for the reality of being away from home and suffer through a series of crises.
Available on DVD 
Lady Be Good: Instrumental Women in Jazz
This 80 minute documentary film captures the lost stories of female jazz musicians in provocatives and often humorous interviews with women musicians, big band leaders, jazz authors, and historians.
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The Rape of Recy Taylor
Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang-raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. The NAACP sent its chief rape investigator, Rosa Parks, who rallied support and triggered an unprecedented outcry for justice.
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Raising Renee
Just as her career is taking off, artist Beverly McIver must fulfill a promise to her mother to become the caretaker of her mentally impaired sister.
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T-Rex
When women's boxing is included in the 2012 Olympic Games, Claressa 'T-Rex' Shields fights for gold at age 17. Now, meet the fiercest teenager in America.
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Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
This award-winning documentary illuminates the life and work of Bayard Rustin, who has been described as "the unknown hero" of the civil rights movement.
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Fear of a Black Republican
Follow a non-partisan journey over four years and two Presidential Elections exploring why there are so few Black Republicans and what that means for the future of the Two-Party Political System.
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Harlem Rising
A feature-length documentary tracing the fifty-year history of the Harlem Children’s Zone through folks in the community who grew up with the organization.
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Little White Lie
After learning that her biological father was not the man who raised her, Lacey Schwartz begins a quest to reconcile the hidden pieces of her life.
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Shell Shocked
EMMY NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY
Starting at the surface of New Orleans’ murder epidemic, this film delves into the hearts and minds of those whose lives are most deeply impacted. Available on DVD 
To Be Heard
The story of three teens from the South Bronx whose struggle to change their lives begins when they start to write poetry. These three build a bond based on language, respect and the need to survive.
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Belly of the Beast
EMMY AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY
When an unlikely duo discovers a pattern of illegal sterilizations in women’s prisons, they wage an incredible battle against the Department of Corrections. Now Available on DVD 
Brownstones to Red Dirt
Kids from Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy projects and orphans from Sierra Leone's civil war find one another through a pen pal program that not only shapes their lives, but also shows them that they can count on each other.
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Fight Hate with Love
Seven years after being released from prison, now married with a pregnant wife and a young son, a dedicated public servant's years of incarceration have left him with invisible scars.
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Inside Buffalo
They were called "Buffalo Soldiers." These men fought two wars at the same time, one against the Nazis, the other against racial discrimination. Those who survived found that their contributions went unnoticed upon their return to United Stated of America.
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The Long Shadow
From New Orleans to Virginia, Mississippi and Canada, two filmmakers travel the roads of oppression, suppression, and even hope to reveal the connections of slavery and strong-arm Southern politics to the current racial strife in America.
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