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Midnight Ramble is a 1994 documentary about the early history of Black American movies from the period between 1910 and 1950. Known as "race movies", these films, traditionally independent of Hollywood, were made primarily by, for and about the black community.
By the 1990s American attitudes on race were becoming more liberal and a new wave of films looked back at the Civil Rights Movement as history, beginning with Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning of 1989, right through to Ghosts of Mississippi in 1996. [14] More recently, Ava DuVernay's 2014 film Selma has shown there is much more in the civil ...
Albino (film) Ali (film) Ali: Fear Eats the Soul; All the Young Men; Amazing Grace (2006 film) Ambajipeta Marriage Band; American Gangster (film) An American Girl Story – Melody 1963: Love Has to Win; American Skin (film) Americanese; Amore libero - Free Love; Angel Puss; Angelitos negros (1948 film) Angelitos negros (1970 film) AnneFrank ...
In 1864, all votes from Louisiana and Tennessee were rejected because of the American Civil War. In 1872 , all votes from Arkansas and Louisiana plus three of the eleven electoral votes from Georgia were rejected, due to allegations of electoral fraud, and due to submitting votes for a candidate who had died .
African-American women and African-American gay and lesbian women have also made advances directing films, in Radha Blank's comic The 40-Year-Old Version (2020), Ava DuVernay's fanciful rendition of the children's classic A Wrinkle in Time [1] [59] or Angela Robinson's short film D.E.B.S. (2003) turned feature-length adaptation in 2004.
Many race films were produced by white-owned film companies outside the Hollywood-centered American film industry, such as Million Dollar Productions in the 1930s and Toddy Pictures in the 1940s. One of the earliest surviving examples of a black cast film aimed at a black audience is A Fool and His Money (1912) , directed by French emigree ...
The Betrayal (1948 film) Beware (film) Big Timers; Birthright (1924 film) Birthright (1938 film) The Black King (film) The Blood of Jesus; Boarding House Blues; Body and Soul (1925 film) Boogie-Woogie Dream; Boy! What a Girl! Broken Strings (film) The Bronze Buckaroo; Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus; The Brute (1920 film) Bubbling Over (film ...
Funded in part by a Kickstarter campaign, the series was produced in association with the Library of Congress, with the cooperation of the British Film Institute, George Eastman Museum, Museum of Modern Art, National Archives, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Southern Methodist University, and the UCLA Film & Television ...