Black Power Movies

During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and pr...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world....

Examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in US society from 1967 to 1975. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists in...

An examination of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s in the UK, surveying both the individuals and the cultural forces that defined the era....

Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, this documentary tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordi...

A film about one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, the moment when the radical spirit of the 1960s upstaged the greatest sporting event i...

Filmed on the rooftops of lower Manhattan, this performance film features the original Last Poets performing 28 numbers adapted from their legendary C...

Beginning as a city-symphony of Newark streets, buildings, and people set to wordless chanting, The New-Ark quickly arrives at its political imperativ...

A documentary on funk and P-funk and the bands and artists that made it all happen: James Brown, Sly Stone, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Maurice Wh...

Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all acro...

An animated satire on the question of self-image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in t...

Silvia needs to get rid of a rat that has invaded the kitchen where she works while dealing with the growing abuses of her boss Suzana.

Courtesy of The Freedom Archives 1972, 28 min. This extraordinary video is from a 16mm film “work print” made in 1971–1972, and includes interviews w...

As his dad runs for city mayor, Virgil Hawkins struggles with finding his place in the world and his new found superpowers.