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A CENTURY OF BLACK CINEMA (2003) | Official Trailer WATCH ON AMAZON: http://amzn.to/2EZi32zThis film highlights moments in the long and rich African American...
- 16 Bad Trip
- 15 The Tragedy of Macbeth
- 14 Monster
- 13 Fatherhood
- 12 The United States vs. Billie Holiday
- 11 Concrete Cowboy
- 10 The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
- 9 Candyman
- 8 Night of The Kings
- 7 Passing
Bad Trip is a comedy directed by Kitao Sakurai, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Dan Curry and Eric André. It's a story that follows the misadventures of two best friends named Chris and Bud, played by André and Lil Rel Howery. The plot begins when Chris's former high school crush reappears in his life. He feels compelled to drop everything an...
The Tragedy of Macbeth is written and directed by Joel Coen and based on the classic play by Shakespeare. If you are familiar with the play, you already know it's a story centered on the themes of ambition, power, and betrayal. Lord Macbeth is a Scottish nobleman who receives a prophecy from three witches. He will be king one day, and one of his fr...
Monster (also known as All Raise in other markets)" is one of the most challenging films you'll ever watch. It's a story exploring the life of a 17-year-old African American boy named Steve Harmon, played by Kelvin Harrison Jr. Directed by Anthony Mandler; this film takes a long, hard look at the broken criminal justice system in America. The story...
We rarely see Kevin Hart's acting chops in anything besides comedy; Fatherhood is one of the most refreshing offeringsfrom the small titan. Paul Weitz directs this heartwarming drama. The story follows the emotional journey of a single father who must raise his daughter alone after his wife dies, leaving both alone. As you can expect, this exercise...
Andra Day's intense portrayal of the legendary Billie Holiday inserts so much empathy and humanity into the gritty, upsetting film The United States vs. Billie Holiday. A great singer herself, Day plays Holiday from the gut, winning a Golden Globeand receiving an Oscar nomination for tapping into the classic artist's brilliance and despair with inc...
It's genuinely weird that Netflix made two Black Westerns starring Idris Elba this year, and almost weirder that they were both great. Concrete Cowboy is more of a Western hybrid, with Elba playing one of Philadelphia's historically recent 'urban cowboys' who hold on to a fading way of life. The film captures the beauty of Westerns as seen through ...
David Midell received NAACP Image Award and American Black Film Festival Awards nominations for his film The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain, a film produced by Morgan Freeman about the real-life police shooting of the titular character in New York. Chamberlain was a retired Marine with bipolar disorder who had served as an officer at corrections fa...
1992's Candyman has long been considered one of the most interesting horror films from the perspectives of race and gentrification, so updating it to 2021 was a brilliant decision on the part of director Nia DaCosta and co-writer/producer Jordan Peele. The tagline of the new Candyman, "Say his name," boldly references the killing of George Floyd an...
Night of the Kings is a fascinating and intricately complex film from Côte d'Ivoire (the Ivory Coast), directed by the great Philippe Lacôte. The film is set in a prison, the dark confines of the La Maca prison and tells stories within stories as inmates with their own rituals and systems choose a 'griot,' or African storyteller, to tell a tale on ...
Artfully and quietly directed by Rebecca Hall (whose mother 'passed' as white), Passing follows the intersecting lives of two light-skinned Black women after a chance encounter in the 1920s, one who is a vibrant member of the Harlem community and another (played by Ruth Negga) who is actually married to a white man and has passed as white most of h...
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This film highlights moments in the long and rich African American cinema history in relation to social and political events, and how it affected black viewers of the time.
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- King Richard. Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal. 22 votes. A remarkable true story comes to life in this inspiring film about a tenacious father who guides his daughters, Venus and Serena Williams, toward tennis greatness despite all odds.
- The Harder They Fall. Jonathan Majors, Zazie Beetz, Delroy Lindo. 44 votes. Giddy up for an exuberant ride through the Wild West with a stellar all-Black cast that brings this electrifying western to life.
- Judas and the Black Messiah. Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons. 108 votes. This gripping historical drama doesn't pull any punches in its unflinching portrayal of betrayal, racism, and the fight for justice.
- Fatherhood. Kevin Hart, Alfre Woodard, Melody Hurd. 42 votes. Keep those tissues handy - this heartwarming tale of a single father navigating parenthood after losing his wife is bound to leave a lump in your throat.
A Century of Black Cinema is worth checking out if you’re into documentaries but especially if you consider yourself a film buff or movie fan. In a bit under two hours, you can learn a lot about the history of the Black film industry.
Here’s how you can watch and stream A Century of Black Cinema via streaming services such as Amazon Prime Video.
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Dec 20, 2021 · The best black movies of 2021 run the gambit. From documentaries about historical black figures, to horror, to science fiction. Check out our list of the 10 best films starring, written, directed, and/or produced by a black person.
