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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
List of American films of 2029; 2030s ... American film at the Internet Movie Database "The 100 Greatest American Films", BBC.com This page was last ...
The Affair (1995 film) Affirmations (film) Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison; Alex Cross (film) Ali (film) All About the Benjamins; All Eyez on Me (film) Almost Christmas (film) Alpha Man: The Brotherhood of MLK; American Gangster (film) Anna Lucasta (1958 film) Annie (2014 film) Antebellum (film) Anthem (film) Antwone Fisher (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 ...
In the early days of cinema, African-American roles were scarce and often filled with stereotypes. Pioneers like Oscar Micheaux, one of the first significant African-American filmmakers, countered these narratives with films like The Homesteader (1919) and Body and Soul (1925), which were part of the "race film" genre and tackled issues such as racial violence, economic oppression, and ...