We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân (2010)

Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, and Joe Pesci in Goodfellas (1990)

Afrocentric Films Collaborative, LLC has put together another exquisite collection of essential cinema.  This time we focus on documentary films.  AFC loves documentaries, I mean love them, especially powerful encrypted ones with life changing significance.  Documentaries are meant to inform and inspire, but most importantly tell a story. 

Enjoy!

Afrocentric Films Collaborative 

(non-chronological)

Documentaries about HipHop culture based on any or all of its four elements (MC, DJ, BBoy, Graffiti), bio docs highlighting prominent HipHop artists, in some cases docs that are more music business focused, and in some noteworthy cases I included concert videos of sorts, but sometimes it's a judgement call. I'm trying to include any and all HipHop documentaries good bad and ugly, so if I missed one, please feel free to let me know. 

Chronological order, this list is a work in progress. While I may be a fan of many of these, and often might include my own personal review or footnotes, this is not a "best of" list of any kind, and I don't claim it to be 100% definitive in any way.

Finally, when compiling this list I realized there is a very large number of Tupac documentaries, some good some not so good, some down right exploitative. While this list may seem incomplete if I don't include all of them, I opted instead to include only the highlights (again, aesthetic reasons) and make a second list dedicated to all those Tupac docs - titled 'Pacumentaries' - found rightchere ... [link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077534289/[/link]

Frankie Darro, Tom Tyler, and Beans the Dog in The Cowboy Cop (1926)

Here is an amazing collection of Black/African documentaries! 

The Definitive List Of African Diaspora Documentaries!

looking into, the art of the documentary,

this is my own personal documentation,  of the many different documentary films that i have found to be important...

for one reason or another.. here they are...

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