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Documentary films about African-American people

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I Am Not Your Negro

2016 film by Raoul Peck

O.J.: Made in America

2016 American documentary film

1994 documentary film by Steve James

1997 film by Spike Lee

Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

2021 film directed by Questlove

2018 film directed by Kevin Macdonald

The Perfect Neighbor

The Perfect Neighbor is a 2025 American documentary film directed by Geeta Gandbhir about a shooting incident on June 2, 2023 where a white woman, Susan Louise Lorincz, fatally shot Ajike Owens, her black neighbor, in Ocala, Florida.

2016: Obama's America

2012 Documentary film by Dinesh D'Souza

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

2018 film directed by RaMell Ross

Dancing Darkies

1896 film by William Kennedy Dickson

1948 film by Sidney Meyers

What Happened, Miss Simone?

2015 film directed by Liz Garbus

2005 film by David LaChapelle

The Original Kings of Comedy

2000 film by Spike Lee

Life Is But a Dream

2013 documentary film directed by Beyoncé

2018 American documentary film featuring Aretha Franklin

2021 film directed by Dan Lindsay and T. J. Martin

Wattstax was a benefit concert organized by Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 riots in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles. The concert took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 20, 1972. The concert's performers included all of Stax's prominent artists at the time. The genres of the songs performed included soul, gospel, R&B, blues, funk, and jazz. Months after the festival, Stax released a double LP of the concert's highlights, Wattstax: The Living Word. The concert was filmed by David L. Wolper's film crew and was made into the

The Negro Soldier

1944 film by Stuart Heisler

2008 film by James Toback

1968 film by Agnès Varda

500 Years Later

2005 film by Owen 'Alik Shahadah

The Farm: Angola, USA

2023 American documentary short film

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey

2011 American documentary film about Kevin Clash

Portrait of Jason

1967 film by Shirley Clarke

2005 film by Marshall Curry

Stubborn as a Mule

2010 film by Arcelious Daniels and Miller Bargeron, Jr.

LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

2001 documentary film

Colors Straight Up

Jim Brown: All-American

2002 film by Spike Lee

You Belong to Me: Sex, Race and Murder in the South

2015 film directed by John Cork

After Winter: Sterling Brown

1985 film by Haile Gerima

Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther

1969 film by William Klein

Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

2011 film by Michael Rapaport

Whitney: Can I Be Me

2017 documentary film directed by Rudi Dolezal and Nick Broomfield

1959 film by Edward Bland