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- Documentary series focusing on great American artists and personalities.
- Mapantsula tells the story of Panic, a petty gangster who inevitably becomes caught up in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and has to choose between individual gain and a united stand against the system.
- This documentary traces the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice.
- A young ANC activist and poet from Soweto is the sole witness to a brutal train massacre by an Inkatha militant.
- Semi-documentary film about a man going to his home country of Chad after many years living in exile in France.
- THE LANGUAGE YOU CRY IN tells an amazing scholarly detective story that searches for, and finds meaningful links between African Americans and their ancestral past. It bridges hundreds of years and thousands of miles from the Gullah people of present-day Georgia back to 18th century Sierra Leone. It recounts the even more remarkable saga of how African Americans have retained links with their African past through the horrors of the middle passage, slavery and segregation. The film dramatically demonstrates the contribution of contemporary scholarship to restoring what narrator Vertamae Grosvenor calls the "non-history" imposed on African Americans: "This is a story of memory, how the memory of a family was pieced together through a song with legendary powers to connect those who sang it with their roots."
- Ezra is the first film to give an African perspective on the disturbing phenomenon of abducting child soldiers into the continent's recent civil wars. Ezra is structured around the week-long questioning of a 16 year old boy, Ezra, before a version of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, created in Sierra Leone in 2002 in the wake of its decade long civil war. This hearing is then inter-cut with chronological flashbacks to pivotal moments during Ezra's ten years in the rebel faction which made him who he is.
- A film about black experiences with a "backdrop of Creole cooking."
- The story of Canadian Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire and his controversial command of the United Nations' mission to Rwanda during the 1994 genocide.
- A documentary about militant student political activity in the University of California-Berkely in the 1960's.
- This documentary tells four stories of Apartheid in South Africa, as seen through the eyes of the Truth and Reconciliation commission. White soldiers who have killed ANC activists, black activists who have killed whites in political attacks: can there be forgiveness when the full truth comes out?
- A forty-year-old woman refuses to give into the stigma of unwed motherhood and climbs the ladder of success in a male dominated field.
- A girl sells copies of Soleil, the government paper.
- Like every Carmen, Karmen Geï is about the conflict between infinite desire for freedom and the laws, conventions, languages, the human limitations which constrain that desire.
- Two young high school boys, Manga and Sory, are gay and in love in Guinea. This is their story.
- Explores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in Martinique, educated in Paris and worked in Algeria. Examines Fanon's theories of identity and race, and traces his involvement in the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria and throughout the world.
- The story and legacy of the enigmatic leader of the notorious 1831 homicidal slave revolt in Virginia, along with reviews of works about him, are explored; twentieth century civil rights discussed and cultural relativism mentioned.
- Documentary about African political leader Patrice Lumumba, who was Prime Minister of Zaire (now Congo) when he was assassinated in 1961.
- An in-depth look at the world of coffee and global trade.
- The 1970s in the former Rhodesia, today Zimbabwe: The native people are rising up against their white suppressors. As the war reaches even the most distant villages, the two friends Florence and Nyasha join the fighters and assume new names - Flame and Liberty. But the war is not as easy as they thought.
- In only 15 minutes with some 30 people Jane Elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of society today with all its phenomena and feelings. As already known from the ill reputed Milgram experiment, even participants who knew the "rules" are unable to remain uninvolved. What starts as a game turns into cruel reality which causes some participants' emotions to erupt with unforeseen intensity ...
- Documentary on Bayard Rustin, best-remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.
- Made in L.A. follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from a mega-trendy clothing retailer. In intimate verité style, Made in L.A. reveals the impact of the struggle on each woman's life as they are gradually transformed by the experience. Compelling, humorous, deeply human, Made in L.A. is a story about immigration, the power of unity, and the courage it takes to find your voice.
- Cameroonian filmmaker Bassek ba Kobhio provides a fascinating revisionist perspective on Albert Schweitzer, Noble Peace Prize winner and secular saint of the colonial era. Like FRANTZ FANON: BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASK, this film begins to rewrite the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonized. LE GRAND BLANC DE LAMBARÉNÉ is not, however, a facile exercise in iconoclasm but rather a deeply-felt lament for a missed opportunity, for a cross-cultural encounter between Africa and Europe which never happened. The film reveals that the ultimate tragedy of colonialism may have been its refusal to see and value the colonized as autonomous, creative human beings. The film's epigraph, ironically, is a famous remark by Schweitzer himself: "All we can do is allow others to discover us, as we discover them."
- Mougler and his friends slip into a life of petty crime in Libreville, Gabon. When they take their chances in robbing a lottery kiosk, things turn from lighthearted to tragic.
- A 20-year veteran of the Angolan civil war returns to the capital city of Luanda where he faces the challenges of assimilation and survival.
- This bittersweet, coming of age story is a kind of African equivalent of George Lucas' American Graffiti, Spike Lee's Crooklyn or Godard's Masculin/Feminin.
- A look at the aftermath and investigation behind the massive 1999 Tulia, Texas drug bust, which resulted in the arrest of 46 people, 39 of whom were African American.
- Portrait in 3 parts composed of testimonies and a long interview of the West Indian poet Aimé Césaire who evokes his literary encounters and his political commitment. Extracts from poems and plays and archival documents illustrate this film. "L'Ile Merveilleuse" is centered on Martinique. After an evocation of his first poems, Césaire speaks of his return to Martinique as a teacher, then of his political commitment within the Communist Party. With Joseph Zobel, René Depestre, Maryse Condé, Roger Fayolle. "At the rendezvous of the conquest" is devoted to Paris, from the 1930s to the 1950s, with the meeting of Léopold Sedar Senghor and Léon Gontran Damas. With Roger Garaudy, Jorge Amado, Dominique Desanti, Albert Memmi and Jean-Toussaint Desanti. "The Force to Watch Tomorrow" addresses the problems of the contemporary world, and first and foremost that of Africa, from the festival of black arts in Dakar (1965) to the tribute paid to Césaire in Miami in 1987. With Pathé Diagne, Juliana Lumumba, Sekou Tour, Jean Malaurie, Edgar Morin, and African Heads of State.
- Tells the story of an idealistic young politician's rise and fall. Daam, a well-intentioned but vacillating European-trained politician must choose between two social paradigms exemplified by his two wives. The first, Gagnesiri, is the village beauty, who waits patiently for Daam. Unfortunately, they are unable to conceive a child, so Daam takes European-educated Kiné, who is eager to get ahead by marrying a politician. Daam becomes involved in a shady business deal with Président, a local businessman; when the details are made public, he is forced out in disgrace.
- The new hard-hitting documentary, The Big Sellout, challenges current economic orthodoxy in contending that the dogmatic claims of the international business establishment for neo-liberal development policies are not supported by modern economic science. More importantly, it dramatically demonstrates how the implementation of these policies is having disastrous consequences for millions of ordinary people around the globe.
- Just over the border in Mexico is an area peppered with maquiladoras: massive sweatshops often owned by the world's largest multinational corporations. Carmen and Lourdes work at maquiladoras in Tijuana, and it is there that they try to balance the struggle for survival with their own radicalization in this documentary.
- In pre-colonial times a peddler crossing the savanna discovers a child lying unconscious in the bush. When the boy comes to, he is mute and cannot explain who he is. The peddler leaves him with a family in the nearest village. After a search for his parents, the family adopts him, giving him the name Wend Kuuni (God's Gift) and a loving sister with whom he bonds. Wend Kuuni regains his speech only after witnessing a tragic event that prompts him to reveal his own painful history.
- A storyteller named Djeliba comes to the town of a young boy named Mabo with promises that he will reveal the origin of the boy's ancestry.
- "Why do some of us get sicker more often and die sooner, and what causes us to become sick in the first place? This limited series explores the apparent link between a person's health and his social, economic and physical environments, which can affect one's health and longevity as strongly as such other better-known factors as smoking, diet and exercise."
- A beautiful, intelligent and flirtatious young girl, Yonta, is secretly in love with a friend of her parents, Vicente, a hero of the war of independence. Vicente is unaware of her passion as she is of the love of a young man who sends her anonymous love letters.
- Kourou comes from a village to Kinshasa, Zaire's capital and the center of World Beat; music is in his heart and he has big dreams. Right away he gets a job as a domestic for Mamou, the loud wife of a club owner, and he falls in love with Kabibi, a virginal young woman who wants to be a secretary. Meanwhile, Nvouandou, the club owner, childless after twenty years of marriage, wants a second wife and determines to marry Kabibi. Mamou pretends to approve of the match, but behind her husband's back, she pushes Kabibi into the arms of Kourou. Can Kourou win Kabibi's hand and fulfill his dreams of being a singer; can Mamou recapture the affections of Nvouandou?
- Kathe Sandler interviews African Americans about their experiences with skin color, particularly within Black communities. Young, old, male and female all express their relationships to their skin color and physical features.
- A group of woman in an African village finds a mystical mask. Using the mask, they reverse gender roles, women act like men, and men act like women.
- An examination of elementary teacher Jane Elliott's educational exercise about discrimination, which she conducts an unforgettable lesson with her third-grade class in Riceville, Iowa.
- Surveys a typical workday in the lives of impoverished women in Tanzania who manually mine gravel used for making concrete for urban building projects.
- In the last days of 1999, after a few shots of a French supermarket, abundant in food and color, we hear Dramane compose a letter home to his father in Mali whom he then visits in the village of Sokolo. He meets the lovely Nana, and there are possibilities. People place long-distance calls from the post office. "Reaching people," says the postmaster, "is a matter of luck." Contrasts between Paris and Sokolo - between Mali and France and between Africa and Europe - are underscored by voice-over poems and comments by Aimé Césaire. A man dictates a letter to a brother in France: what is the nature of their hardships? People look for their place on this earth.
- This moving documentary recounts the two months leading to Martin Luther King Jr.'s death in 1968, coinciding with the 65-day strike of 1300 Memphis sanitation workers.
- The story of Viola Dees, an elderly woman who is trying to care for her troubled grandson.
- The film focuses on the life, work and legacy of Mississippi-born writer, Richard Wright.
- A documentary chronicling the remarkable story of San Francisco's Fillmore District. Remembered today mainly for its rock-and-roll auditorium, the Fillmore District is one of the great cautionary tales of American urban life. From the wholesale removal of Japanese Americans during WWII, to the jazz heyday of the 1950's, to the bulldozers of urban renewal, the Fillmore has seen its share of drama. "The Fillmore" sheds light on the way cities come into being by focusing on the bittersweet history of one neighborhood, as told by the residents who fought for its survival. Features the music of Count Basie, John Handy, Jefferson Airplane, and others.
- Road to Brown is an excellent documentary with historic photographs, film footage, including interviews with those who knew Charles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950) who, after facing injustice even fighting for his Country in WWII became an attorney and spent his life fighting for an end to Jim Crow racists laws enacted long after the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments had been passed. Freedom, Citizenship, and the Right to Vote, respectively. Houston brought about change for Blacks and due to his tireless efforts finally saw Jim Crow buried. He helped bring about desegregation in all aspects of life for Blacks in the South. An informative and interesting historic film documentary every American should see.
- Documentary on the 1984 contract negotiations between the Canadian branch of the UAW and General Motors.
- The documentary, You Have Struck a Rock describes the history of non-violent resistance by black South African women to the use of reference books or passes issued by the South African apartheid government. The pass was traditionally employed by the government to restrict and control the whereabouts of black South African men, who were forced to work away from their families for months or even years. In 1948, the Nationalist government came to power and began to introduce passes for black women. The role of the pass in the lives of black women differed from the role it played in the lives of black men. For a number of reasons concerning issues of bread-and-butter, women were forced to take political action, which was largely unified and strong for many years.