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Discovering William Greaves
Dec 06, 2006A documentary on the career of William Greaves, featuring Greaves, his wife and co-producer Louise Archambault, actor Ruby Dee, filmmaker St. Clair Bourne, and film scholar Scott MacDonald. Released within Criterion's Symbiopsychotaxiplasm set.
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Nothing But Common Sense
Jan 01, 1970An educational film about engineering, modern technology and problem solving; filmed in New York, Philadelphia, Michigan and Newark. Produced for the Engineers Council for Professional Development, Inc.
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Feb 24, 1999Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic champion of the rights of the poor working man, the disfranchised and people of color. He led a life in the vanguard of many movements, achieved international acclaim for his music and suffered tremendous personal sacrifice. His story is one of the great dramas of the 20th century, spanning an international canvas of social upheaval and ideological controversy.
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In Motion: Amiri Baraka
Jan 02, 1983This video portrait, filmed in the days leading up to Amiri Baraka’s appeal of his 90-day sentence for resisting arrest following an argument in his car outside the 8th Street Playhouse movie theater, documents Baraka at his radio show, at home with his wife and children, and performing at readings. It is a delicate vision of a revolutionary who has grown quieter—though never at rest, and as sage as ever.
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Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Nov 03, 1989The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
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John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk
Sep 10, 1996John Henrik Clarke talks about Black history.
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Before They Die!
Nov 01, 2008Before They Die! A film chronicling the survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and their quest for justice.
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The Black and the Green
Jan 01, 1983Explores the influence of the African American civil rights movement, both in philosophy and strategy, on the fight for Catholic independence in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.
Something to Build On
Jan 01, 1971Bourne documenting the options granted to high school students who want to attend college
Let the Church Say Amen!
Jan 01, 1973Black Journal: 18; Malcolm X Liberation University
Jan 01, 1969The 1960s black student movement at Duke University evolved into a separate institution to study and engage with the history and culture of the African diaspora. This film was produced for the National Educational Television (WNET) Black Journal.
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Statues Hardly Ever Smile
Jan 01, 1971Edited by famed filmmaker Kathleen Collins, Statues Hardly Ever Smile follows a group of middle school children during a six-week project at the Brooklyn Museum, where they collectively discover and respond to the Egyptian collection. With narration by a member of the museum’s education department, we witness the group’s daily exercises and reflections as they create a theatre piece centered on the relationships developed with the objects and each other.
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Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
Feb 23, 1987One in a series of 13 documentaries on renowned American poets produced by the New York Center for Visual History. Described by director St. Clair Bourne as “a narrative performance documentary,” this category-defiant film on the life of poet and writer Hughes and the times in which he lived and worked moves from America to Senegal to Paris, from the 1920s Harlem Renaissance to the Black Pride awakening of the 1960s.
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Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
Jul 01, 1970A short documentary subject made for National Educational Television's Black Journal television program documenting a political rally in Newark, the 1970 mayoral campaign of Ken Gibson, and an African-American voter registration drive with special musical performance by Stevie Wonder.
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Black Dance
Jan 01, 1970Soul, Sounds, and Money
Jan 01, 1969A film examining Black musicians in the record industry, including Smokey Robinson, Isaac Hayes, and Gladys Knight and the Pips. - Wheeler Winston Dixon, The Exploding Eye
Big City Blues
Mar 04, 1981The film mixes scenes of the city of Chicago with musical performances and interviews with people connected with the Blues. In Big City Blues, the film examines the links between the past and the present: the old time blues singer Jim Brewer is presented alongside Son Seals, Queen Sylvia Embry and Bill Branch.
On The Boulevard
Mar 06, 1984Bourne's first fiction film, which stars Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as an unemployed musician who falls for a dancer on the streets of Hollywood. - Wheeler Winston Dixon, The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960's American Experimental Cinema
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
Nov 30, 2000An intimate look at the life and career of Gordon Parks a true Renaissance man who has excelled as a photographer, novelist, journalist, poet, musician and filmmaker.
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Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Nov 03, 1989The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
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Innocent Until Proven Guilty
Jan 01, 1999James Forman, a 31-year-old public defender and son of a civil rights leader, provides representation for black youth in Washington, D.C., who can't afford their own attorneys in this riveting documentary that goes inside the criminal justice system. Director Kirsten Johnson's award-winning film also sheds light on the difficulties that ex-offenders face when trying to break the cycle of crime and imprisonment.
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