The Docuseek African-American Studies Collection
The African-American Studies Collection is an interdisciplinary collection of over 80 films focused on the social, political, and cultural history and present experience of African Americans.
The Docuseek African-American Studies Collection includes the following titles:
In the 1970s, the Bronx was on fire. Abandoned by the city government, nearly a half-million people were displaced as their close-knit, multi-ethnic neighborhood burned, reducing the community to rubble.
Academy Award-shortlisted for Best Documentary, the film is a vivid portrait of Detroit, America's first major post-industrial city, as it struggles to deal with the consequences of a broken economic system.
One Black man's journey from straight-A student to bank robber — and back.
He changed the course of civil rights in the US and you never heard his name.
Prison-survivor and activist Michael Ta’Bon leads a one-man movement in his community to help other young men avoid the revolving door of the prison system he’s been trapped in since he was a teen.
The classic film about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, one of the most significant expressions of black radical thought and activism in the 1960s
The great music revolutions of our times have come from Africa, and the next one is brewing there right now.
Francophone West Africa is bound together by the French language and a common currency, but also by traditions and languages from the vast empires that dominated the region long before colonialism.
Ghana and Angola are two of the fastest growing economies in the world, as well as two countries in midst of a musical revolution.
Friend and advisor to Martin Luther King, FUNDI reveals the instrumental role that Ella Baker played in shaping the American civil rights movement.
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