Whispers Of Angels: A Story Of The Underground Railroad (2002)

Passin' It On (1993)

Category: Documentary | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Dhoruba Bin Wahad

Follow the startling true story of Dhoruba Bin Wahad, a leader of the New York City chapter of the Black Panther Party who served 19 years in prison for killing two policemen, a crime he claimed he did ... more

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What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Library (2006)

Category: Documentary | Rated: NR | Closed Captioned: No

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Marking the 40th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, this collection of shorts from the Newsreel film collective includes "Off the Pig" (1968), featuring Panther leaders Huey Newton and Eldridge ... more

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Adam Clayton Powell (1989)

Category: Documentary | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

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Civil rights students know much about Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X, but what about "Mr. Jesus"? Also dubbed "Mr. Civil Rights," Baptist minister Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. became ... more

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Underground Railroad (1999)

Category: Documentary | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Alfre Woodard, Jerry Gore, Marie Tyler-McGraw

For over 80 years tens of thousands of slaves escaped oppression in the South through a clandestine network of "stations" manned by free blacks and white abolitionists that led them North. Alfre Woodard ... more

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Unchained Memories: Readings From The Slave Narratives (2002)

Category: Documentary | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White / Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

Format: | Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle

In the 1930s, government-sponsored writers and journalists crossed the country to record the histories of elderly African-Americans who were the last generation to be born into slavery. Their fascinating ... more

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Underground Railroad: The William Still Story (2012)

Category: Documentary | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

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A long-unheralded hero of the secret safe-house chain that gave runaway slaves passage to free states and Canada, free-born abolitionist William Still managed the Underground Railroad's Philadelphia ... more

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The Abolitionists (2013)

Category: Documentary | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

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"American Experience" takes a three-part look at the men and women who fought--first peaceably, and then by more forceful means--to destroy the "peculiar institution" of slavery that once plagued America. ... more

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Black Is...Black Ain't (1994)

Category: Documentary | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Angela Davis, Essex Hemphill, Bell Hooks

Filmmaker Marlon Riggs' provocative final film offers a challenging look at how the forging of a "black identity" can be a complex but important undertaking in contemporary society. Incorporating remarks ... more

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4 Little Girls (1997)

Category: Documentary | Director: Spike Lee | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

Format: | Starring: Chris Mcnair, Maxine Mcnair, Helen Pegues

Acclaimed director Spike Lee examines one of the most shocking crimes to occur in American history--the 1963 bombing of a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, that resulted in the deaths of four children ... more

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