The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent…

Piri Thomas, a painter, poet, author, ex-con, and ex-junkie, describes the life of a Puerto Rican in the Spanish Harlem ghetto in New York City

The story, set in Kansas during the 1920’s, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him…

Gordon Parks’ poetic autobiography

The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as “Batman & Robin”.

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.

This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He’s a born freeman who works as a…