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Stamped from the Beginning (2023)

Summary: A hybrid documentary/scripted feature based on Dr. Kendi's National Book Award-winning "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas".

Release Date: November 20, 2023

Genre: Documentary

Director: Roger Ross Williams

Writers: Ibram X. Kendi

, David Teague

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: One Story Up Productions, story27, Netflix

Distributor: Netflix

Country: United States

Language: English

Making Black America: Through the Grapevine (2022)

Summary: A four-part series hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Release Date: October 04, 2022

Genres: Documentary, History

Production: McGee Media

Country: United States

Language: English

Da 5 Bloods (2020)

Summary: Four black veterans battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.

Release Date: June 12, 2020

Genres: Adventure, Drama, War

Director: Spike Lee

Writers: Danny Bilson

, Paul De Meo

, Kevin Willmott

Runtime: 2 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, Rahway Road Productions

Distributor: Netflix

Country: United States

Language: English

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)

Summary: This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career.

Release Date: June 21, 2019

Genre: Documentary

Director: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Perfect Day Films

Distributor: Magnolia Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 903,018

International: $ 24,477

What Is Democracy? (2018)

Summary: This documentary examines the philosophy behind the concept of Democracy, from ancient Athens to modern Greece and the American Civil Rights movement.

Release Date: January 16, 2019

Genre: Documentary

Director: Astra Taylor

Writer: Astra Taylor

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

Production: National Film Board of Canada (NFB)

Distributor: Zeitgeist Films

Country: Canada

Language: English

Domestic: $ 44,536

Red Table Talk (2018)

Summary: Jada Pinkett Smith, her daughter Willow, and mother Gammy - three generations of women open their home for a series of candid conversations with family and friends. Follow Red Table Talk for new episodes, only on Facebook Watch.

Release Date: May 07, 2018

Genres: Drama, News, Reality-TV

MPAA: TV-14

Production: Nuyorktricity, Very Tall Productions, Westbrook Studios

Country: United States

Language: English

Mr. Soul! (2018)

Summary: Before Oprah, before Arsenio, there was Mr. SOUL. Ellis Haizlip ensures that the Revolution would be televised with "SOUL!," America's first "Black Tonight Show." From 1968 to 1973, the public-television variety show SOUL!, guided...

Release Date: April 22, 2018

Genre: Documentary

Directors: Melissa Haizlip

, Sam Pollard

Writer: Melissa Haizlip

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

Production: Shoes In The Bed Productions

Distributor: HBO Max, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Dolores (2017)

Summary: In the 1950's, a working-class wife and mother of eleven children helps to establish a farmer's union, which later develops into a platform for feminism and gender equality.

Release Date: January 20, 2017

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Director: Peter Bratt

Writers: Jessica Congdon

, Peter Bratt

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: 5 Stick Films, Artemis Rising Foundation

Distributor: PBS Distribution

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 555,309

13th (2016)

Summary: An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

Release Date: October 07, 2016

Genres: Crime, Documentary, History

Director: Ava DuVernay

Writers: Spencer Averick

, Ava DuVernay

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Forward Movement, Kandoo Films, Netflix

Country: United States

Language: English

Out in the Night (2014)

Summary: Under the neon lights in a gay-friendly neighborhood of New York City, four young African-American lesbians are violently and sexually threatened by a man on the street. They defend themselves against him and are charged and convi...

Release Date: June 12, 2014

Genres: Crime, Documentary, Biography

Director: Blair Doroshwalther

Writer: Blair Doroshwalther

Runtime: 1 h 15 min

MPAA: Unrated

Country: United States

Language: English

Occupy Unmasked (2012)

Summary: An alternate look at Occupy Wall Street camps around the country.

Release Date: September 21, 2012

Genre: Documentary

Director: Stephen Bannon

Writer: Stephen Bannon

Runtime: 1 h 16 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Amigo Media, Citizens United Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 52,768

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012)

Summary: Before the popularity of AncestryDNA, journalist and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr. divulges the family trees of various celebrities, many times with stunning revelations.

Release Date: March 25, 2012

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Runtime: 0 h 53 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: Ark Media, Kunhardt Films, McGee Media

Country: United States

Language: English

Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (2012)

Summary: The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of the former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Director: Stephen Vittoria

Writer: Stephen Vittoria

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Street Legal Cinema

Distributor: First Run Features

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 250,000

Domestic: $ 37,731

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)

Summary: Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States is edited together by a contemporary Swedish filmmaker.

Release Date: April 01, 2011

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Göran Hugo Olsson

Writer: Göran Hugo Olsson

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Story AB, Sveriges Television (SVT), Louverture Films, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Nordisk Film & TV-Fond, Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK), Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS), Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI), Swedish Arts Grants Committee, YLE Teema, Story

Distributor: Sundance Selects

Countries: Sweden, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,500,000

Domestic: $ 273,749

International: $ 6,507

The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)

Summary: A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed from a musician into an antiwar activist.

Release Date: December 07, 2006

Genres: Music, Documentary, Biography

Directors: David Leaf

, John Scheinfeld

Writers: David Leaf

, John Scheinfeld

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Lionsgate, VH1 Rock Docs, Authorized Pictures, LSL Productions, Lionsgate Productions

Distributor: Lionsgate, VH1 Television, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,109,146

International: $ 298,919

Fidel (2001)

Summary: Documentary about Fidel Castro, covering 40 years of Cuban Revolution. Rare Fidel Castro footage: he appears swimming with a bodyguard, visiting his childhood home and school, playing with his friend Nelson Mandela, meeting kid El...

Release Date: August 02, 2001

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Director: Estela Bravo

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Bravo Films, Four Point Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 121,304

Independent Lens (1999)

Summary: Independent Lens is an award-winning PBS documentary series that streams on the PBS App and airs on public television. Independent Lens documentaries focus on stories of underrepresented communities and universal challenges found ...

Release Date: August 09, 1999

Genre: Documentary

MPAA: TV-14

Production: ITVS International

Country: United States

Language: English

Malcolm X (1992)

Summary: Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.

Release Date: November 18, 1992

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Spike Lee