Movies: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- 2016
13th (2016)
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An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality....
- 2017
Not Black Enough (2017)
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A deep look at the class warfare and the contradictions that African-Americans face within their own community when many of them are ostracized because they are “not black enough.” An analysis of the reasons behind these absurd acts of hatred....
- 2021
Black Art: In the Absence of Light (2021)
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An introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today, inspired by the late David Driskell's landmark 1976 exhibition, "Two Centuries of Black American Art."...
- 2025
The Gettysburg Address (2025)
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In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln went to Gettysburg. "The Gettysburg Address" investigates the five extant copies of Lincoln's famous speech, separating fact from fiction along the way. Lincoln's greater journey to Gettysburg is chron...
- 2014
Nas: Time Is Illmatic (2014)
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Time Is Illmatic is a feature length documentary film that delves deep into the making of Nas' 1994 debut album, Illmatic, and the social conditions that influenced its creation....
- 2021
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are) (2021)
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A journey across the United States to explore the story of the Civil War of Americans from President Obama's final year in office through the present....
- 1992
Color Adjustment (1992)
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From Amos 'n' Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many roles on primetime television. Brilliantly weaving clips from classic TV shows with commentary from TV producers, black actors and scholars, Marlon Riggs...
- 1969
Black America since MLK: And still I rise (1969)
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- 2019
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (2019)
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The series explores the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary social change. The twelve years that composed the post-war...
- 2003
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003)
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In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of local slave owners and their families, the eventual execution of 55 rebels and the retribution lynching of more than 200 innocent slaves. Nat Turner: A Trou...
- 2022
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (2022)
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Acclaimed actors draw from five of Douglass’ legendary speeches, to represent a different moment in the tumultuous history of 19th century America as well as a different stage of Douglass’ long and celebrated life, while famed scholars provide contex...
- 2020
Frontline: America's Great Divide (2020)
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A deep look into the growing divide in America from the Barack Obama era through the presidency of Donald Trump....
- 2020
John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020)
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The timely biopic focuses on John Lewis’ longstanding prominence as a civil rights champion and his continuing crusade for racial and social equality. The documentary illuminates the 80-year-old Congressman’s life as it chronicles the moments on the ...
- 2017
Birth of a Movement (2017)
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In 1915, Boston-based African American newspaper editor and activist William M. Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith’s technically groundbreaking but notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly The Birth of a Nation, unleashing a fight that still rages...
- 2004
A Place of Our Own (2004)
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Filmmaker Stanley Nelson's look back at the 40 years he spent summering at Oak Bluffs, a black-oriented resort community on Martha's Vineyard....
- 2018
America's Library (2018)
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With special access to the Library of Congress, rediscover the history and culture of America through rarely seen treasures unearthed from its extensive holdings - the largest in the world....
- 2003
Let the Church Say, Amen (2003)
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In Washington D.C., one church becomes the symbol of a local community dedicated to one another....
- 1999
Leaving Cleaver (1999)
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In March 1997, social activist, former Black Panther, and author, Eldridge Cleaver sat down with Henry Louis Gates Jr. for a discussion of his life as a civil rights activist. It would be the last major interview Cleaver gave before his death in May ...
- 2009
Looking for Lincoln (2009)
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Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s quest to piece together Lincoln's complex life takes him from Illinois to Gettysburg to Washington, D.C. and face-to-face with people who live with Lincoln every day -- relic hunters, re-enactors and others for whom ...