Black Lives Matter

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right.

A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

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

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.

Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.

The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.

Tensions run high between black citizens and white cops in Jersey City when a black teenage boy is critically injured by a cop.

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.

At a predominantly white Ivy League college, a group of black students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.

A young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn't commit.

While on probation, a man begins to re-evaluate his relationship with his volatile best friend.

A young man searches for home in the changing city that seems to have left him behind.

A documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued.

An in-depth look at the origin and aftermath of the 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin and subsequent trial of George Zimmerman, which sparked a national debate on race relations and revealed a deeply fractured and divided country.

Comedian Wyatt Cenac examines a wide range of social and cultural problems facing Americans.

In this story inspired by true events, Ron Stallworth, an African-American Colorado police officer, successfully infiltrates the local branch of the Ku Klux Klan with the help of a white Jewish colleague.

A father takes an irreverent and honest approach to parenting and relationships.

When a star high school football player from South Central is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High School, two separate worlds collide.

In the New York of the late '80s and early '90s, this is a story of ball culture and the gay and trans community, the raging AIDS crisis, and capitalism.

Activist Abdur-Rahman Muhammad begins his own investigation into the perplexing details surrounding the assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X.

Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park. Based on the true story.

The inspiring story of trailblazing African American entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker who built a haircare empire that made her America's first female self-made millionaire.