African American Studies Collection
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All Our Sons: Fallen Heroes of 9/11
Lillian Benson
2003, 28 min., Color
Twelve African American firefighters were among the World Trade Center victims on September 11th, 2001. This moving documentary profiles these heroes, their families and the ultimate sacrifices they ...
Ambushed
Jared Katsiane
1992, 12 min., BW
George Bush Sr. declares a "War On Drugs." Meanwhile, two generations of black males find their lives invaded by that war's foot soldiers--the police....
Book of Ezekiel
LaTrice A. Dixon
1999, 20 min., Color
A young flautist, Freeda Breedlove, draws on the inspiration of her ancestor Ezekiel, an enslaved poet, to make a difficult decision about her future. By reinterpreting Ezekiel's legacy, Freeda finds...
Bringin' in Da Spirit
Rhonda L. Haynes
2003, 60 min., Color
Through the use of first person narrative and rare archival images, this documentary provides a moving glimpse of the women who have skillfully brought scores of children across the threshold of exist...
Military Option
Al Santana & Alonzo Speight
Producer: Third World Newsreel
2005, 11 min., Color
Women, money and travel. It's still the hook that military recruiters are using on young men, as two students discover at a Queens recruitment office. A look at the military recruitment process thro...
Ocoee: Legacy of the Election Day Massacre
Bianca White & Sandra Krasa
2002, 26 min., Color
In the early twentieth century, Ocoee was home to one of Florida's most prosperous African American communities. On Election Day 1920, Mose Norman and July Perry attempted to vote and the African Amer...
On the Downlow
Abigail Child
2006, 54 min., Color, US
"On the Downlow" presents an intimate portrait of four men negotiating their bisexual desire within the African-American community of Cleveland, Ohio. These men selfdescribe as "dipping on both sides ...
Politics from a Black Woman's Insides
Yuko Edwards
1998, 26 min., Color
Follow one woman's search for the Hottentot Venus, the legendary link between ape and human and icon of black female subjectivity. Edwards' film explores the construction of race through both scienti...
A String of Pearls
Camille Billops & James Hatch
2002, 56 min., Color
With this film, Camille Billops completes her family's trilogy - three documentaries that cover more than thirty years: "Suzanne Suzanne", shown in the New Director's series at the Museum of Modern Ar...
Take Your Bags
Camille Billops
1998, 11 min., Color
My take on slavery: When the Africans boarded the ships bound for America, they carried in their bags all their memories of home. When they arrived in the New World, their bags had been switched, and ...
Untold Legacy
Leslie K. Brown
Producer: Third World Newsreel
2005, 12 min., Color
In February 2005, the NY City Council considered a bill that would require companies doing business with NY to investigate and reveal any past complicity and profit from the Trans-Atlantic slave trade...
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