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1970
Revisiting The Learning Tree
Revisiting The Learning Tree0 1970 HD
Featurette included on the Criterion Collection's release of Gordon Parks’ feature debut, The Learning Tree. This documentary, produced in...
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Cast: Ina Diance Archer
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1995
Rap: Looking for the Perfect Beat
Rap: Looking for the Perfect Beat7 1995 HD
Rap music has articulated a black aesthetic that is influencing pop culture around the world. But does it also promote violence, misogyny, and crime?...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Afrika Bambaataa
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2007
The Wire: The Last Word
The Wire: The Last Word1.5 2007 HD
A documentary exploring the role of the media in relation to the acclaimed series The Wire.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Gbenga Akinnagbe
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2007
The Wire Odyssey
The Wire Odyssey6.6 2007 HD
A retrospective documentary of the first four seasons of the acclaimed series The Wire.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Gbenga Akinnagbe
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2019
The Minnesota Sound
The Minnesota Sound0 2019 HD
Emily Goldberg's first person journey through the Minneapolis music scene of the 80s. More
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Emily Goldberg
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2022
Sidney
Sidney7.7 2022 HD
This revealing documentary honors the legendary Sidney Poitier—iconic actor, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Featuring interviews with...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Sidney Poitier
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2023
Thriller 40
Thriller 408.549 2023 HD
Forty years after the release of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller,’ the best-selling album of all-time, director Nelson George takes...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Michael Jackson
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2012
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’2 2012 HD
A provocative look into the seven-year history of the series that gave hip hop a voice and broke color barriers, integrating MTV with rap. "Yo! MTV...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Fab 5 Freddy
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2023
Just a Boy From Tupelo: Bringing Elvis to the Big Screen
Just a Boy From Tupelo: Bringing Elvis to the Big Screen5 2023 HD
Director Baz Luhrmann, actors Austin Butler and Tom Hanks, and others explore the life and legacy of Elvis Presley and the making of the acclaimed...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Baz Luhrmann
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2015
Hustlers Convention
Hustlers Convention5.7 2015 HD
The story of Sport and Spoon - two young hustlers who attend the eponymous convention, only to get tangled up in a financial disagreement that leads...
Genre: Music
Cast: Chuck D
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2009
Downtown Calling
Downtown Calling0 2009 HD
In the late 1970s, the "greatest city in the world" was teetering on the edge of total chaos. A failed economy, crime and en mass housing corruption...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Charlie Ahearn
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2004
And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop
And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop4.7 2004 HD
The film documents the development of hip hop culture since its inception in the 1970s. With interviews from various figures in the community such as...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Nas
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2002
It's Black Entertainment
It's Black Entertainment8 2002 HD
A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Vanessa Williams
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2001
Raisin' Kane: A Rapumentary
Raisin' Kane: A Rapumentary0 2001 HD
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jeff Duke
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1999
Michael Jordan: His Airness
Michael Jordan: His Airness6.8 1999 HD
From his days as a child in North Carolina to his retirement from the Chicago Bulls in 1999, His Airness takes you on a journey through Michael...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Will Lyman
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2020
With Drawn Arms
With Drawn Arms5.4 2020 HD
The story behind a critical moment in American history, spawning one of most iconic images of protest from the past century. At the 1968 Summer...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Tommie Smith
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2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy6.8 2021 HD
A cheap, powerful drug emerges during a recession, igniting a moral panic fueled by racism. Explore the complex history of crack in the 1980s.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Carl Hart
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2021
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks6.9 2021 HD
This documentary chronicles renaissance man Gordon Parks’ stellar career from staff photographer for LIFE magazine, through his artistic...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Ava DuVernay
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2009
Good Hair
Good Hair6.543 2009 HD
An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, GOOD HAIR visits beauty salons and hairstyling battles, scientific...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Maya Angelou
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1990
Def by Temptation
Def by Temptation4.9 1990 HD
An evil succubus is preying on libidinous black men in New York, and all that stands in her way is a minister-in-training, an aspiring actor, and a...
Genre: Horror
Cast: Cynthia Bond
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2007
Life Support
Life Support5.6 2007 HD
The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and an AIDS activist in the black community.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Queen Latifah
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2012
Brooklyn Boheme
Brooklyn Boheme6.8 2012 HD
Brooklyn Boheme is a love letter to a vibrant African American artistic community who resided in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill Brooklyn during the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Spike Lee
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2012
Brooklyn Boheme
Brooklyn Boheme6.8 2012 HD
Brooklyn Boheme is a love letter to a vibrant African American artistic community who resided in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill Brooklyn during the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Spike Lee
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2012
Brooklyn Boheme
Brooklyn Boheme6.8 2012 HD
Brooklyn Boheme is a love letter to a vibrant African American artistic community who resided in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill Brooklyn during the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Spike Lee
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2012
The Announcement
The Announcement6.9 2012 HD
On Thursday, Nov. 7, 1991, Earvin "Magic" Johnson made people stop and watch at the Forum in Inglewood, Calif. But this time it wasn't his basketball...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Magic Johnson
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2012
All Hail the Beat
All Hail the Beat0 2012 HD
All Hail the Beat' celebrates a rhythm machine deemed obsolete in 1984 but still influential until to this day. The Roland TR-808 existed from 1980...
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2012
All Hail the Beat
All Hail the Beat0 2012 HD
All Hail the Beat' celebrates a rhythm machine deemed obsolete in 1984 but still influential until to this day. The Roland TR-808 existed from 1980...
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2014
Finding the Funk
Finding the Funk6.8 2014 HD
Finding the Funk is a road trip in search of the past, present and future of Funk music. Starting with Funk's roots in Jazz and the James Brown bands...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Questlove
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1993
CB4
CB46 1993 HD
A "rockumentary", covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group "CB4". We soon learn that these...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Chris Rock
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2013
Disdain the Mundane
Disdain the Mundane0 2013 HD
Walt Frazier, arguably one of the most illustrious players in the history of the New York Knickerbockers, has emerged in the 21st century as a Big...
Genre: Documentary
Cast:
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2015
A Ballerina's Tale
A Ballerina's Tale6.4 2015 HD
A feature documentary on African American ballerina Misty Copeland that examines her prodigious rise, her potentially career ending injury alongside...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Misty Copeland
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1993
CB4
CB46 1993 HD
A "rockumentary", covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group "CB4". We soon learn that these...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Chris Rock
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1991
Strictly Business
Strictly Business5.4 1991 HD
Waymon has a great job in real estate and a promising future, but he's also trapped in a loveless longterm relationship. He meets Natalie, a...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Joseph C. Phillips
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2022
Say Hey, Willie Mays!
Say Hey, Willie Mays!6.4 2022 HD
Follow Willie Mays’ life both on and off the field over five decades as he navigated the American sports landscape and the country’s...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Willie Mays
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2023
Thriller 40
Thriller 408.549 2023 HD
Forty years after the release of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller,’ the best-selling album of all-time, director Nelson George takes...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Michael Jackson
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1991
Suspect
Suspect0 1991 HD
A young white woman leaving a nightclub alone drops her cigarette lighter on the street. When a young black man follows her and attempts to return...
Genre: Drama
Cast: D-Nice
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1993
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.6.7 1993 HD
Chantel Mitchell, a hip, articulate, black high-school girl in Brooklyn, is determined not to become "just another girl on the IRT" (the IRT is one...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Ariyan A. Johnson
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2007
Life Support
Life Support5.6 2007 HD
The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and an AIDS activist in the black community.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Queen Latifah
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2016
The Real MVP: The Wanda Durant Story
The Real MVP: The Wanda Durant Story7 2016 HD
Wanda Pratt works tirelessly to raise three children, including future NBA basketball player Kevin Durant.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Naika Toussaint
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1993
CB4
CB46 1993 HD
A "rockumentary", covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group "CB4". We soon learn that these...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Chris Rock
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2001
One Special Moment
One Special Moment0 2001 HD
An action adventure film star becomes smitten with an idealistic high school teacher when he agrees to participate in a business deal involving the...
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Cast: Obba Babatundé
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2014
Top Five
Top Five6.1 2014 HD
Though he began in stand-up comedy, Andre Allen hit the big-time as the star of a trilogy of action-comedies about a talking bear but now he wants to...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Chris Rock
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2019
The Black Godfather
The Black Godfather6.9 2019 HD
Follows the life of Clarence Avant, the ultimate, uncensored mentor and behind-the-scenes rainmaker in music, film, TV and politics.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Clarence Avant
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2020
With Drawn Arms
With Drawn Arms5.4 2020 HD
The story behind a critical moment in American history, spawning one of most iconic images of protest from the past century. At the 1968 Summer...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Tommie Smith
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2012
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas0 2012 HD
FOCUS FORWARD - Short Films, Big Ideas is an award-winning series of 30 three-minute stories about innovators—people who are reshaping the...
Genre: Documentary
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