African-American Movies & More

Videoclips

• "Break the grip of shame"
  Length: 3min    Category: Videoclip
  Language: engl.
  Comment: Videoclip by Paris, with many references to the Nation Of Islam
  
• "By the time I get to Arizona"
  Length: 6min    Category: Videoclip
  Language: engl.
  Comment: Public Enemy, a very radical videoclip. Released in ca. 1992, when Arizona was one of the last to states which didn't accept the Martin Luther King, jr. holiday.
  
• "Cult of Personality"
  Length: 4 min.    Category: Live- Music
  Language: engl.
  Comment: Living Color, Live, with Malcolm X sample at the beginning
  
• "Express yourself"
  Length: 4min    Category: Videoclips
  Language: engl.
  Comment: NWA
  
• "No Sell Out"
  Length: 3min    Category: Videoclip
  Language: engl.
  Comment: by Keith LeBlanc. Tommy Boy Records. MALCOLM X samples underlayed with a beat. Many pictures and movieclips of Malcolm.
  
• "REVOLUTION"
  Length: 5min    Category: Videoclip
  Language: engl.
  Comment: Arrested Development, title song to Spike Lee's Movie "Malcolm X". Mentions Malcolm.
  
• "Step in the right direction"
  Length: 5min    Category: Videoclip
  Language: engl.
  Comment: Mark Rogers. British(?). Has either clips by Martin Luther King, jr. or Malcolm X (I'm not sure since I haven't seen it in a long time)
  
• "Washington Rain"
  Length: 2min    Category: Videoclip
  Language: engl.
  Comment: Father Father, contains many clips of marches of the civil rights movement
  

Movies

• Against the Wall
  Length: ???    Category: Prison-Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: movie about the Attica revolt in the early 70s. Starring Samuel L. Jackson.
  
• Alle Menschen sind nicht gleich
  Length: 50min.    Category: Children
  Language: German
  Comment: Short movie starring Whoopy Goldberg. Title-translation: "All Men are NOT created equal". About the Sit-In Movement and Lunch-Counter-Sit-Ins, Nonviolence training etc.
  
• Aufstand alter Männer
  Length: 86min    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Louis Gossett,jr.
  
• Beat Street
  Length: 101min    Category: Breakdance Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Produced by Harry Belafonte, this was the first commercial movie about Rap & Breakdance. Released in 1984, approx. two years after Wild Style. Features performance by Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five ("Beat Street Breakdown"/"World War III")
  
• Bebe's Kids
  Length: ???    Category: Animated Movie
  Language: German
  Comment:
  
• Billie Holiday - Lady sings the blues
  Length: 117min.    Category: Biography/Music
  Language: German
  Comment: one of the few movies Motown made.
  
• Bird
  Length: ???    Category: Music-Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Clint Eastwood's movie about Charlie "Bird" Parker. Starring Forest Whitaker
  
• Blues Brothers
  Length: ???    Category: Music-Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Movie about to white guys who wear sun-glasses, dark suits and make Blues music. Features appaerances by Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin etc.
  
• The Bodyguard
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner
  
• Boiling Point
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Wesley Snipes
  
• Booker
  Length: 60min    Category: Children
  Language: English
  Comment: Childhood of Booker T. Washington
  
• Boomerang
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Eddie Murphy and a nice soundtrack produced by LA & Babyface
  
• Boyz'n'The Hood
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: staaring Ice Cube and Laurence Fishburn. Directed by John Singleton.
  
• Brief An Den Weihnachtsmann
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Nice christmas-movie about a small boy who wants to stay at his foster parents.
  
• Carolina Skeleton
  Length: 95min    Category: Movie
  Language: English
  Comment: Starring Louis Gossett,jr. as an army officer who investigates the death of his small brother who was put on the electric chair for harrasing a white woman when he was only about 13 years old.
  
• CB 4
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Comedy about NWA and the Rap-Business in general. Starring Chris Rock and others.
  
• Class Act
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Kid'n'Play
  
• Colors - Farben der Gewalt
  Length: ??    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: 1988. Movie about gangviolence in L.A., starring Sean Penn and Henry Duval. Good Soundtrack featuring Big Daddy Kane, Ice-T. etc.
  
• Coolskin
  Length: ca. 88 min    Category: Movie/Animation
  Language: German
  Comment: USA 1974, feat. Barry White
  
• Cotton Club
  Length: 132min    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Richard Gere. About the Cotton Club in Harlem, NYC. Jazz Music.
  
• Criminal Justice
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Forest Whittacker.
  
• Cry Freedom - Schrei nach Freiheit
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Sir Richard Attenborough's movie about Steven Biko. Starring Denzel Washington and Kevin Kline.
  
• Deep Cover - Jenseits der weissen Linie
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Laurence Fishburn
  
• Demolition Man
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Wesley Snipes and Sylvester Stallone
  
• Der Chaoten Cop
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Denzel Washington and Bob Hoskins
  
• Der Pate von Harlem (Black Caesar)
  Length: 96min    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: ca. 1974
  
• Der plötzliche Tod des Edmund Parry
  Length: ca. 100min    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Best Intention:The Education & Killing of E.Parry,US 1991
  
• Der Prinz aus Zamunda
  Length: ??    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: USA, "Coming To America", starring Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall
  
• Der Schwarze Sheriff
  Length: ??    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Louis Gossett, jr.
  
• Der Tanz des Drachen - The Last Dragon
  Length: 105 min    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Motown 1985
  
• Der Typ vom anderen Stern
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: "Earth Girls Are Easy". Starring Damon Wayans, Jim Carrey and Jeff Goldblum. 1989
  
• Die 36 Kammern des Shaolin
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: "The 36 Chambers of Shaolin" is the direct translation of the German movie title. But I'm not sure if this is really the movie that influenced Wu-Tang Clan's debut album.
  
• Die Farbe Lila - The Color Purple
  Length: 143min    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Steven Spielberg's movie of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel starring Whoopie Goldberg
  
• Die Wiege Der Sonne (Rising Sun)>
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Wesley Snipes and Sean Connery
  
• Do The Right Thing
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Spike Lee's third movie. And probably his best.
  
• Fame
  Length: 127min    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Music-Movie about the New York Highschool of Performing Arts
  
• FBI- Kampf dem Terror (Attack on Terror) /Teil 1&2
  Length: 2 * 93min    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: USA 1975, movie made for TV, about the murder of the 3 civil rights workers in 1964, covers the same incident as "Mississippi Burning", but not a big Hollywood movie.
  
• Flucht in die Freiheit
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: German title translates to "Escape to freedom", about slaves escaping to freedom.
  
• Gideon Oliver - Gideons Kampf
  Length: 89min    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Louis Gossett,jr.
  
• Gleichheit kennt keine Farbe (Separate But Equal)
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: TV production about the "Separate But Equal" decision and Thurgood Marshall. 1991. Starring Sidney Poitier as Thurgood Marshall.
  
• Glory
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Denzel Washington, who won the academy award for "Best Supporting Actor" in this movie.
  
• Harlem Nights
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Eddie Murphy
  
• Hollywood Shuffle
  Length: ca. 90min    Category: Comedy
  Language: German
  Comment: produced, written and starring Robert Townsend
  
• How to make an American Quilt
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: English
  Comment: starring Wynona Rider and my favorite poet, Maya Angelou.
  
• Ihr größter Coup
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Louis Gossett, jr. as an old boxer
  
• Im Glanz der Sonne - The Power of One
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: about a white boy in South Africa who becomes a famous boxer among the black poppulation
  
• Jungle Fever
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Fifth Spike Lee Joint. Starring Wesley Snipes. Music by Stevie Wonder
  
• Kein Platz für Benny - Benny's Place
  Length: ca. 100 min    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: USA 1982, starring Louis Gossett, jr.
  
• Krush Groove
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: The story of Def Jam. Featuring Run DMC, LL Cool J and many others, also a short performance by New Edition. 1985.
  
• LA Heat
  Length: 85min.    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: US. Action.
  
• Last Boyscout
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: feat. Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans
  
• Making the Case for Murder - The Howard Beach Story
  Length: 90min    Category: Movie
  Language: engl.
  Comment: USA 1989, based on true facts
  
• Malcolm X
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Spike Lee joint about Malcolm X. Largely based on James Baldwin's "One Day When I Was Lost". Starring Denzel Washington as Malcolm X and Angela Bassett as Dr. Betty Shabazz
  
• Menace 2 Society
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Strong and violent movie about gangs etc.
  
• Meteor Man
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Robert Townsend as a super hero. Guest appearances by Big Daddy Kane and Luther Vandross as villans.
  
• Mississippi Burning
  Length: ??    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Hollywood production about the murder of three civil rights workers in 1964. See also "Attack on Terror"
  
• Mo' Better Blues
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Spike Lee's forth movie. Beautiful Jazz music by the Branford Marsalis Quartett. Starring Denzel Washington as a trumpet player and Wesley Snipes as a saxophone player.
  
• Mord in der Karibik - The Mighty Quinn
  Length: 94min    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Denzel Washington & R. Townsend
  
• Native Son
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Movie based on Richard Wright's famous novel
  
• New Jack City
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Mario Van Peebles, Christopher Williams and Ice-T in a movie about police vs. Crack dealers in New York.
  
• Nola Darling - She's gotta have it
  Length: ??    Category: Movie
  Language: OmU/engl.
  Comment: first Spike Lee Joint
  
• Nothing but a man
  Length: ca.80min    Category: Movie
  Language: engl./OmU
  Comment: b/w, USA 1964
  
• Passagier 57
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Wesley Snipes
  
• Passion Fish
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment:
  
• Philadelphia
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington
  
• Platoon
  Length: ca. 110min    Category: Vietnam
  Language: German
  Comment: Hollywood production. Starring Michael Wright
  
• Posse
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Mario Van Peebles' movie about African-American Cowboys.
  
• Ricochet
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Denzel Washington
  
• Roots & Roots-Next Generation
  Length: 12 parts, each 45 (or 90) minutes long    Category: Serie
  Language: German
  Comment: Kunta Kinte's story
  
• Roots - The Gift
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Roots sequel. Starring Avery Brooks, LeVar Burton and Louis Gossett. Jr. 1988
  
• Sarafina
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: musical about South-African school children and Soweto 1977. Starring Whoopy Goldberg and lots of beautiful music.
  
• Seven
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman
  
• Shaft
  Length: 85min    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: USA 1972
  
• Shaft's Big Score - Liebesgrüße aus Pistolen
  Length: ca.100min    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Sequel to Shaft
  
• Sister Act
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Whoopy Goldberg as a nightclub-singer who enters a convent.
  
• Sister Act 2
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: sequel to Sister Act. Soundtrack mostly produced by Mervyn Warren (ex-Take 6)
  
• Sneakers- die Lautlosen
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Sidney Poitier as a computer specialist
  
• Soul Man
  Length: 96min    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Hollywood Comedy about a white guy who uses pills to turn into a black man. Starring C. Thomas Howell (?) and Rae Down Chong
  
• Sounder - Das Jahr ohne Vater
  Length: 102min    Category: Children
  Language: German
  Comment: Beautiful movie for children. See also the book in my "Book"-Section
  
• Sounder 2 - Im Zeichen der Gerechtigkeit
  Length: 98min    Category: Children
  Language: German
  Comment: Sequel To Sounder
  
• Sugarhill
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Wesley Snipes
  
• Superfly
  Length: ca.90min    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Music by Curtis Mayfield
  
• Tap Dance
  Length: 106 min    Category: Music-Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Gregory Hines, Sammy Davis, Jr. and many famous tap dancers
  
• Thank God, it's Friday
  Length: 86min    Category: Music-Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: USA 1978, featuring the Commodores and Donna Summer
  
• The Black Klansmen
  Length: 86min    Category: Movie
  Language: engl.
  Comment: old.
  
• The Jacksons - An American Dream
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Story of the Jackson Five. Starring Vanessa Williams as Diana Ross.
  
• The Vernon Jones Story
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring James Earl Jones
  
• Tina - What's love got to do with it
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: English
  Comment: Angela Bassett as Tina Turner and Laurence Fishburne as Ike Turner.
• Viel Lärm um nichts
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing", starring Denzel Washington.
• Visum für die Hölle
  Length: ca.95min    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: USA 1972, starring Jim Brown
  
• Wer die Nachtigall stört - To kill a mocking bird
  Length: 160(129min)    Category: Movie on the famous novel
  Language: German
  Comment: USA 1962 (b/w)
  
• White men can't jump
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: starring Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes as street-basketball players
  
• Wildcats
  Length: ???    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: Goldie Horn as football-coach. Starring Wesley Snipes.
  
• Wildstyle
  Length: ca. 72min    Category:
  Language: engl./OmU
  Comment: USA 1982 The First HipHop Movie. Classic!
  
• Zwei Welten - A world apart
  Length: 109 min    Category: Movie
  Language: German
  Comment: GB 1988 Movie about apartheid in South Africa.
  

Documentations

• Apartheid
  Length: 120min    Category: Documentation
  Language: German(O.m.U.)
  Comment: Aired on Arte, 17.Oct.92 Very good documentation about Apartheid in South Africa.
  
• Berkeley in the 60s
  Length: 110min    Category: Documentation
  Language: German
  Comment: incl. BPP, B.Seale & all the others !
  
• Dear America - Letters home from Vietnam
  Length: ca.90min    Category: Documentation
  Language: engl(OTon)
  Comment: Letters and documentary material
  
• Growing up in America
  Length: 70-90min    Category: Documentation
  Language: O.m.U.
  Comment: People from the 60s then and now(incl.Fred Hampton)
  
• James Baldwin - Der Preis ist das Leben
  Length: 85 min.    Category: Documentation
  Language: German/ O.m.U.
  Comment: USA 1989, very good documentation on James Baldwin. Also includes many interviews and Maya Angelou reading the end of "The Fire Next Time".
  
• Michael X - Wer braucht ein Herz ?
  Length: 75min    Category: Movie/Documentation.
  Language: German/engl.
  Comment: Black Power in GB / Trinidad
  
• The Civil War, Part 1-9
  Length: ca.90min each    Category: Documentation
  Language: German
  Comment: Probably the best and most detailled documentation on the American Civil War (1861-1865), including many original material like photos and letters and diaries.
  
• Wer tötete Martin Luther King, Jr. ?
  Length: 50min    Category: Documentation
  Language: German
  Comment: 1992, France, about "Who killed Martin Luther King,jr.?"