African American History Movies
- 2016
Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures8.052016HD
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as...
- 1992
Malcolm X
Malcolm X7.5451992HD
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he...
- 2013
12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave7.9392013HD
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as...
- 2024
Nickel Boys
Nickel Boys6.6072024HD
Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
- 2014
Selma
Selma7.3882014HD
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous...
- 2013
The Butler
The Butler7.3322013HD
A look at the life of Cecil Gaines, who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat...
- 2020
The Banker
The Banker7.6282020HD
In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.
- 1971
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris7.11971HD
In 1970, a British film crew set out to make a straightforward literary portrait of James Baldwin set in Paris, insisting on setting aside his...
- 2024
The Six Triple Eight
The Six Triple Eight7.5532024HD
During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17...
- 2021
Judas and the Black Messiah
Judas and the Black Messiah7.3142021HD
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton...
- 1984
Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Solomon Northup's Odyssey6.21984HD
This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born free man who works...
- 1989
Glory
Glory7.51989HD
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
- 2012
Red Tails
Red Tails6.5642012HD
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
- 1995
The Tuskegee Airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen7.11995HD
During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program....
- 2021
Respect
Respect6.7682021HD
The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
- 2022
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches62022HD
Acclaimed actors draw from five of Douglass’ legendary speeches, to represent a different moment in the tumultuous history of 19th century...
- 2016
The Body of Emmett Till
The Body of Emmett Till02016HD
Emmett Till was brutally killed in the summer of 1955. At his funeral, his mother forced the world to reckon with the brutality of American racism. ...
- 2016
13th
13th7.92016HD
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
- 2016
Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation
Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation02016HD
Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1867 sculpture Forever Free, to the work of...
- 2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)7.6222021HD
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and...