Michelle Obama: Life After the White House

2020

English

4.6

♡ 3

Jordan Hill Director

Michelle Obama as Self

Former First Lady Michelle Obama's story has just begun. The Obamas have remained quite busy with their new life of activism which includes their issue-oriented production company, Higher Ground, which won an Oscar for Best Documentary in 2020. Mrs. Obama's autobiography, Becoming, has become the best-selling memoir of all time and even won a Grammy following the publication of her book. Get lost in the incredible journey of this modern-day First Lady's story in the making...

The Exile

1931

English

4.8

♡ 4

Oscar Micheaux Director

Donald Heywood as Bandleader

Louise Cook as Dancer

Carl Mahon as Jango

Roland Holder as Tap Dancer

An idealistic young man is torn between a sultry Chicago nightclub owner and a Scottish South Dakotan farmgirl.

Black Is... Black Ain't

1994

English

7.7

♡ 4

100%

Marlon Riggs Director

Angela Davis as Self

Cornel West as Self

Bill T. Jones as Self

Essex Hemphill as Self

African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses the camera from his hospital bed in several scenes. The film directly addresses sexism and homophobia within the black community, with snippets of misogynistic and anti-gay slurs from popular hip-hop songs juxtaposed with interviews with African-American intellectuals and political theorists, including Cornel West, bell hooks and Angela Davis.

Drylongso

1998

English

6.7

♡ 1

100%

Cauleen Smith Director

Tamara Washington as

Sayyed Y. Bey as Male posing for camera

Salim Akil as Mr. Yamada

April Barnett as Tobi

A young woman in a photography class begins taking pictures of black men out of fear they will soon be extinct.

Kokomo City

2023

English

7.1

99%

D. Smith Director

Rebecca Elise Torner as Self

INW Tarxan as Self

Rich-Paris as Self

Colt Walker as Self

Four Black transgender sex workers in Atlanta and New York City break down the walls of their profession.

Respect

2021

English

6.6

♡ 53

68%

95%

Action

african american

african american history

african american musician

Liesl Tommy Director

Heather Headley as Clara Ward

Forest Whitaker as C. L. Franklin

Myk Watford as Rick Hall

Marlon Wayans as Ted White

The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.

South to Black Power

2023

English

5.2

67%

Action

african american

Documentary

Sam Pollard Director

Jesse Jackson as Self

Stacey Abrams as Self

Al Sharpton as Self

Medgar Evers as Self

In his provocative 2021 book, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, New York Times opinion columnist Charles M. Blow calls for a “reverse Great Migration” of African Americans from the North back to the South to upend today’s political power structures while reclaiming the land and culture they left behind. South to Black Power does more than illustrate Blow’s enlightening ideas; we journey through Blow’s personal story, from his childhood in Louisiana to his role as father to young adult children in New York City, showing us the hard-won truths behind his vision for the future.

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

2023

English

5.9

♡ 13

90%

Raven Jackson Director

Sheila Atim as Evelyn

Chris Chalk as Isaiah

Moses Ingram as Josie

Zainab Jah as Older Mack

Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connection — with loved ones and with place.

Nothing But a Man

1964

English

7.9

♡ 9

98%

Michael Roemer Director

Ivan Dixon as Duff Anderson

Yaphet Kotto as Jocko

Gloria Foster as Lee

Julius Harris as Will Anderson

A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.

We Grown Now

2023

English

6.8

♡ 4

93%

Minhal Baig Director

S. Epatha Merkerson as Anita

Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Dolores

LilRel Howery as Jason

Patrick Dunham as Police Officer #3

In 1992 Chicago, a story of two young legends in their own right begins. As wide-eyed and imaginative best friends Malik and Eric traverse the city, looking to escape the mundaneness of school and the hardships of growing up in public housing, their unbreakable bond is challenged when tragedy shakes their community just as they are learning to fly.

Sly Lives!

2025

English

7.6

♡ 9

Ahmir-Khalib Thompson Director

Nile Rodgers as Self Q-Tip

Q-Tip as Self

Stevie Wonder as Self - Musician

Connie Chung as Self - TV Journalist

An examination of the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone – the groundbreaking band led by the charismatic Sly Stone – that captures the band's reign while shedding light on the burden that comes with success for Black artists in America.

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Michelle Obama: Life After the White House

The Exile

Black Is... Black Ain't

Drylongso

Kokomo City

Respect

South to Black Power

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

Nothing But a Man

We Grown Now

Sly Lives!