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A Choice of Weapons
(2009) Brian McArthur, Ruben Palomares, Krista Kim, Jessica Gonzales, Directors
Bastards of the Party
(2005) Antoine Fuqua, Director
Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Hip-Hop Head Weighs in on Manhood and Hip-Hop Culture
(2006) Byron Hurt, Director
Beyond the Bricks
(2009) Ouida Washington, Derek Koen
Breakin’ In: The Making of a Hip Hop Dancer
(2005) Elizabeth St. Phillip, Director
Bring Your “A” Game
(2009) Mario van Peebles, Director
Can She Be Saved?
(2009) Yasmin Shiraz
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
(2008) Stacy Peralta, Director
Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project
(2008) Charles B. Brack, Producer
A Girl Like Me
(2005) Kiri Davis, Director
Good Hair
(2009) Jess Stilson, Directo
Gunnin’ for that #1 Spot
(2008) Adam Yauch, Director
Hoop Dreams
(1994) Steve James, Director
Infamy
(2005) Doug Pray, Director
Interrupters
(2011) Steve James, Director
Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later
(2007) Brent Renaud and Craig Renaud, Directors
The Lottery
(2010) Madeleine Sackler, Director
Louder Than a Bomb
(2010) Greg Jacobs, Jon Siskel, Directors
More Than a Game
(2009) Kristopher Belman, Director
Murder on a Sunday Morning
(2001) Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Director
Paris is Burning
(1991) Jennie Livingston, Director
Prom Night in Mississippi
(2008) Paul Saltzman, Director
Rize
(2005) David LaChapelle, Directo
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Say My Name
(2009) Nirit Peled, Director
She Rhymes Like a Girl
(2005) J.T. Takagi, Director
Sin by Silence
(2008) Olivia Klaus, Director
A Small Act
(2010) Jennifer Arnold, Director
Story of a People, Vol, 2: Black Youth
(1998) Bob Dockery, Jr. Executive Producer
The Souls of Black Girls
(2008) Daphne Valerius, Director
Trouble The Water
(2008) Tia Lessin, Carl Deal, Directors and Producers
The Vanishing Black Male
(2005) Hasani DuBose, Director
Very Young Girls
(2007) David Schisgall and Nina Alvarez, Directors
Waiting for Superman
(2010) Davis Guggenheim, Director
What’s On Your Plate?
(2009) Catherine Gund, Producer/Director
Woke Up Black
(2011) Mary F. Morten, Producer/Director
Films
Above the Rim
(1994)
Akeelah and the Bee
(2006)
Antwone Fisher
(2001)
ATL
(2006)
Baby Boy
(2001)
Beat Street
(1984)
Belly
(1998)
Boyz N The Hood
(1991)
Breakin’
(1984)
Brown Sugar
(2002)
Business is War
(2009)
Clockers
(1995)
Coach Carter
(2005)
Cooley High
(1974)
Dangerous Minds
(1995)
Daughters of the Dust
(1991)
Dead Presidents
(1995)
Do the Right Thing
(1989)
Drumline
(2002)
Finding Forrester
(2000)
Friday
(1995)
The Great Debaters
(2007)
Hangin with the Boys
(1991)
Higher Learning
(1995)
Honey
(2003)
House Party
(1990)
The Inkwell
(1994)
Jason’s Lyric
(1994)
Juice
(1992)
Just Another Girl on the IRT
(1992)
Krush Groove
(1985)
Lean on Me
(1989)
Lift
(2001)
Love And Basketball
(2000)
Love Jones
(1997)
Menace II Society
(1993)
Naked Acts
(1993)
Nothing but a Man
(1964)
Notorious
(2009)
O
(2001)
Of Boys and Men
(2008)
One Week
(2000)
Panther
(1995)
Pariah
(2011)
Pinky
(1949)
The Player’s Club
(1998)
Poetic Justice
(1993)
Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire
(2009)
Prison Song
(2001)
Ride
(1998)
Save The Last Dance
(2001)
School Daze
(1988)
She’s Gotta Have It
(1986)
Stomp the Yard
(2007)
Straight Out of Brooklyn
(1991)
Up in the Attic
(2009)
The Watermelon Woman
(1996)
What About Your Friends?
(1995)
Wild Style
(1983)
The Wood
(1999)
You Got Served
(2004)
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