AA U5 Films

Documentary Films

Goin Back to T-Town (Tulsa)

The story of the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, OK through the 1921 riot and revival

 

The African Americans Many Rivers to Cross. Episode 4: 1897-1940 & Episode 5: 1940-1968

PBS Series Hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. If not PBS member see videos on youtube here

 

Feature Films

Race (2016)

The story of Jesse Owens' in the 1936 Olympic Games.

 

42 (2013)

The story of Jackie Robinson as the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball. 

 

Remember the Titans (2000)

An African-American man coaches a recently racially-integrated football team.

 

Hidden Figures (2016)

The story of a group of female African-American mathematicians who aided NASA during the start of the U.S. space program. 

 

Miracle at St. Anna

A Spike Lee Film about African American (Buffalo) Soldiers in Italy during WWII.

 

Mudbound (2017)

Two men returning home from WWII struggle with racism and post-war life.

 

Red Tails (2012)

African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program are called into battle. 

 

Loving (2016)

The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple during the 1960's and their fight for love. 

 

10,000 Black Men Named George (2002)

The story of Asa Philip Randolph's and his work to organize black porters at the Pullman Rail Company in 1920s America.

 

Fences (2016)

An African-American father tries to raise a family in 1950's America, coming to terms with the events in his life.

 

Mississippi Burning (1988)

Two F.B.I. Agents who differ in style investigate the disappearance of civil rights activists in Mississippi.

 

Marshall (2017)

The story of Thurgood Marshall as he becomes the first African American Supreme Court Justice.

 

Boycott (2001)

Black Americans boycott public buses in the 1950's.

 

Freedom Song (2000)

A tale of a young man fighting for voting rights in 1960's Mississippi.

 

Selma (2014)

The story of MLK and his journey from Selma to Montgomery Alabama in 1965.

 

Malcolm X (1992)

The story of Malcom X and his rise as a black nationalist leader.