Tag: african american history

  • 13th

    An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation’s history of racial inequality.

  • Hidden Figures

    The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

  • Judas and the Black Messiah

    Bill O’Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.

  • The Banker

    In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.

  • Nickel Boys

    Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

  • The Six Triple Eight

    During World War II, the US Army’s only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn’t been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six months.