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83
7.9
/30363/
74
/547/
74
/491/
4.0
/37667/
100
/43/
89
/602/
89
/15/
cc age 12+

Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.5
/5229/
74
/86/
75
/53/
3.7
/3789/
91
/22/
79
/70/
80
/6/
cc age 12+

Sounder (1972)
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.6
/499/
73
/9/
68
/6/
3.8
/722/
92
/12/
71
/8/

Say Amen, Somebody (1983)
Documentary on modern black gospel music, focusing on the pioneering Rev. Thomas Dorsey and Mother Willie Mae Ford Smith
poster
74
7.3
/2596/
71
/129/
72
/63/
3.5
/3304/
74
/43/
77
/10/
69
/13/
cc age 14+

Chasing Trane (2017)
An account of the life of the brilliant jazz musician John Coltrane (1926-67), a gifted saxophonist, an extraordinarily talented thinker whose original, avant-garde work has impacted and influenced people all over the world. A story about music's ability to entertain, inspire and transform.
poster
Kanopy
79
72
7.8
/4555/
77
/156/
69
/56/
3.6
/1875/
98
/51/
90
/588/
73
/11/

For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)
An exploration of the intersection between religion and homosexuality in the U.S. and how the religious right has used its interpretation of the Bible to stigmatize the gay community.
poster
59
6.5
/17216/
68
/397/
61
/247/
3.2
/7127/
50
/16/
61
/290/
54
/16/

The Dream Team (1989)
Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
52
5.6
/2010/
58
/59/
50
/32/
2.7
/1466/
46
/88/

They Call Me Bruce? (1982)
While working as a cook for the Cosa Nostra, an Asian immigrant who everyone calls Bruce because of his resemblance to Bruce Lee, is duped into making deliveries of "Chinese Flour"- cocaine - all across the U.S.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
66
44
6.3
/1446/
64
/46/
55
/23/
83
/6/
66
/89/

Poor Boy's Game (2007)
Donnie Rose went to prison for beating a young man so brutally it left him handicapped for life. Nine years later, Donnie is out. He's a different man with only one place to go: back home to the same violent and racist neighborhood that created him. At the other end of town, the black community still wants revenge. The instrument of justice will be Ossie Paris, a devastatingly talented boxer who challenges Donnie to a match; a match Donnie's family and peers won't let him refuse. George Carvery has waited nine years to avenge his son's fate at the hands of Donnie. When finally they meet face to face, however, both realize they share a similar desire to overcome the past.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
41
7.0
/601/
70
/29/
76
/8/
3.8
/2194/
88
/41/
58
/7/
76
/13/

A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974)
Les Blank's first feature-length documentary captures music and other events at Leon Russell's Oklahoma recording studio during a three-year period (1972-1974).
poster
52
41
6.1
/5566/
65
/92/
62
/104/
3.3
/4602/
17
/6/
41
/23/

The Sunchaser (1996)
A young half-Navajo convict dying of cancer forces a yuppie doctor to drive him to a magic healing lake.
poster
56
33
6.2
/557/
52
/26/
57
/10/
50
/12/
68
/52/
48
/8/

Dirty Laundry (2006)
After ten years, Sheldon returns from New York City to Paris, Georgia. His mother Evelyn, a laundress who is stubborn, ornery, opinionated, mean-spirited, insulting, and inflexible, has sent a ten-year-old boy who says he's Sheldon's son up to see Sheldon. Sheldon comes home to straighten things out. Old arguments flare up - between mother and son and between brothers. Sheldon wants no part of fatherhood or family. Then, someone else from New York shows up at Evelyn's door, bringing a new set of challenges. Will this family ever stop airing its dirty laundry? And what of Sheldon: where is his pride? Can he, in the words of James Baldwin, go where his blood beats and live the life he has?
poster
Hoopla
55
21
6.3
/594/
55
/16/
52
/14/
3.2
/944/
38
/8/

Native Son (1951)
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
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Kanopy
66
17
6.5
/843/
73
/25/
65
/19/
63
/6/

Twist of Faith (2013)
A single mother and her gospel community help an Orthodox Jewish cantor whose wife and three children were murdered.
poster
82
11
7.7
/397/
86
/8/
85
/2/
83
/12/

The Vernon Johns Story (1994)
In 1948, Johns served as the outspoken spiritual leader of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Incensed at the racial injustice that pervaded the South, he was determined to fight for equality for all African Americans.
poster
?
8.8
/12/
60
/1/

Brasov: Probably the Best City in the World (2012)
A documentary about today's city of Brasov, located in the heart of Romania, in the region of Transylvania.
poster
?
7.7
/24/
10
/1/
10
/2/

Lost in the Crowd (2010)
Lost in the Crowd is a documentary film by Austrian filmmaker Susi Graf about LGBT homeless youth in New York City. The film tells the story of a group of kids focusing on how they became homeless and their attempts to survive on the streets of New York. Most of the youth say the reason that they’re homeless in the first place is because they have been rejected from their families for being Gay or Transgender.
poster
?
8.7
/29/

Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom (2022)
A Black American is troubled by the legacy of American slavery and the misuse of Christianity to justify it. He travels throughout Texas discovering how the Juneteenth reveals faith and a fight for freedom in an unjust society.
poster
?
7.4
/50/
20
/1/
35
/2/

Our House: A Very Real Documentary About Kids of Gay & Lesbian Parents (2000)
This film is a frank examination of the diverse experiences of children of gay and lesbian parents. The documentary profiles sixteen sons and daughters between the ages of four and twenty-three in five diverse families who are facing the usual highs and lows of growing up while encountering varied reactions from extended family, classmates, teachers, neighbors, and public officials.
poster
66
?
6.9
/104/
57
/9/
47
/9/
85
/13/
64
/2/

The New Black (2013)
The New Black is a documentary that tells the story of how the African-American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights. The film documents activists, families and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage and examines homophobia in the black community's institutional pillar-the black church and reveals the Christian right wing's strategy of exploiting this phenomenon in order to pursue an anti-gay political agenda. The New Black takes viewers into the pews and onto the streets and provides a seat at the kitchen table as it tells the story of the historic fight to win marriage equality in Maryland and charts the evolution of this divisive issue within the black community.
poster
?

Camp Meetin' (1936)
Members of the Hall Johnson Choir play members of a church congregation in the deep South in 1936. THey hold an open-air tent-and-camp meeting in order to raise the funds needed to send the church pastor, played by Clinton Rosemond, to a church conference in Birmingham, Alabama.


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