Black History Month: Videos

• Malcolm X

  Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.
• Selma

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
• The Soloist

  An unlikely friendship between a newspaper columnist and a talented schizophrenic street musician.
• Hustle & Flow

  A Memphis hustler and pimp faces his aspiration to become a successful rapper.

• Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise

  In his new four-hour series, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. embarks on a deeply personal journey through the last fifty years of African American history. Videos: 1. Out of the Shadows 2. Move on Up 3. Keep Your Head Up 4. Touch the Sky.
• I Am Not Your Negro

  James Baldwin and Race in America
  An Oscar-nominated documentary narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO explores the continued peril America faces from institutionalized racism.
• Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart

  The Life and Work of a Treasured American Playwright
  This documentary sheds valuable light on all aspects of Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, the first drama by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway.
• The Black Panthers

  The first feature-length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party - its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails.

For more online videos on African Americans, click the tags below:

• African American
• African American Artists
• African American Cinema
• African American History 1863-1960
• African American Identity
• African American Leaders
• African American Musicians
• African American Representation in Media
• African American Rights