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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.

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The Docuseek African-American Studies Collection includes the following titles:

Ghosts of Attica - imageGhosts of Attica

The definitive account of America's most violent prison rebellion, its deadly suppression, the days of torture that ensued, and the almost 30 year legal case that followed.

Icarus Films | 2001 | 90 minutes | 11-12, College, Adult
Guilty Until Proven Guilty - imageGuilty Until Proven Guilty

Explores Louisiana’s criminal justice system through the story of Tim Conerly, a young African-American man who was arrested in the wake of an armed robbery in New Orleans and waited 28 months for a trial for a crime he says he did not commit.

First Run Features | 2018 | 52 minutes
Guns and Mothers - imageGuns and Mothers

The contentious debate over gun control, as seen through the eyes of two mothers on opposite sides of the issue.

Icarus Films | 2003 | 53 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Home of the Brave - imageHome of the Brave

Short-Listed for Best Documentary Feature, Academy Awards®, examines the case of Viola Liuzzo, the only white woman murdered in the civil rights movement.

Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 75 minutes | Grades 10-12, College, Adult
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror - imageHorror Noire: A History of Black Horror

After a century of films that exploited, caricatured, sidelined, and finally embraced them, HORROR NOIRE traces a secret history of Black Americans through their connection to the horror film genre.

Icarus Films | 2019 | 83 minutes
I Am Somebody - imageI Am Somebody

1969 hospital workers struggle in Charleston, South Carolina.

Icarus Films | 1970 | 30 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
If This Ain't Heaven - imageIf This Ain't Heaven

An intimate portrait of a ordinary man who fulfills unknowingly his own ideal of the ventriloquist artist.

Roberta Cantow | 1983 | 28 minutes
In Motion: Amiri Baraka - imageIn Motion: Amiri Baraka

Biographical profile of the out-spoken African-American writer.

Icarus Films | 1983 | 60 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Incarcerating US - imageIncarcerating US

Exposes America's prison problem and explores various criminal justice reforms.

Bullfrog Films | 2016 | 84 minutes | 9 - 12, College, Adults
Integration Report 1 - imageIntegration Report 1

Newly preserved by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, Madeline Anderson’s INTEGRATION REPORT 1 brings viewers to the front lines of the fight for civil rights.

Icarus Films | 1960 | 20 minutes

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