Charles Burnett

A teenage boy leaves a moment of boredom while his father works on his old car, and the mother wishes to go out for a stroll around the block. One...

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An improvised late '60s short-subject student film, and debut movie of Charles Burnett, done in the neo-realist, documentary film style. A...

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This critically acclaimed 1973 short is about an aristocratic white farming family who has a horse that is being put away, by the father of a young...

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Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation is a 2007 epic film on the Namibian independence struggle against South African occupation as seen through the...

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With dreams of fame and fortune, Faith goes to Washington where she quickly discovers that the life of a budding starlet can be tougher than the...

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In the course of a botched purse-snatching, a boy comes to question the path of his life. Billy Woodberry’s second film, and first completed in...

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Tells the poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is the...

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This video work intermingles fiction with actuality in a poignant confrontation with homelessness.

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A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the...

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A single mother ekes out a living from welfare check to welfare check, struggling to provide for her daughter.

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What does it mean to be Black in America in the 21st century? The recently formed Black American film group TNEG™ has set out to elucidate this...

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Looks at the United States as it becomes an increasingly diverse nation. Tracing the history of significant changes in the Immigration and...

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Filmmaker Robert Townsend executive-produced the following fifty-six-minute program for Criterion’s Meet the Filmmakers series in 2018. In it,...

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Filmmaker Thomas Penick explores race, gender and violence in this provocative, disturbing drama set on a hot, summer day in 1969. When a woman...

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A Little League baseball game becomes the unlikely context for this lyrical drama about memory and loss, told from the perspective of a...

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Sa-I-Gu, literally translated in Korean as April 29, is the day of the 1992 Los Angeles riots or uprising. Three months after the events, the...

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Conflicts arise when a middle aged African American school teacher decides to visit her father's homeland of communist Cuba.

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An African American woman living away from her family in Los Angeles yearns to be recognized for more than her physical attributes. In cultivating...

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