The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975

The documentary features the found footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists (discovered some 30 years later in the cellar of Swedish Television) overlaid with commentaries and interviews from leading contemporary African-American artists, activists, musicians, and scholars. The documentary features footage of the movement with appearances by Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and other activists, artists, and leaders central to the Black Civil Rights Movement.

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Judas and the Black Messiah

Judas and the Black Messiah is a 2021 American biographical crime drama film about the betrayal of Fred Hampton (played by Daniel Kaluuya), chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in late-1960s Chicago, by William O’Neal (played by Lakeith Stanfield), an FBI informant.

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Nina Simone – What Happened, Miss Simone?

Singer and activist Nina Simone’s life is explored through never-before-seen recordings, rare archive footage, and her most iconic songs. In interviews with Nina Simone’s daughter Lisa and her guitarist Al Schackman, What Happened, Miss Simone? provides insights into the private life, the passions, and the activist involvement of the singer who was born in 1933 and lived for the moment.

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Black Panther

Black Panther is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. In Black Panther, T’Challa is crowned king of Wakanda following his father’s death, but he is challenged by Killmonger (Jordan), who plans to abandon the country’s isolationist policies and begin a global revolution.

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Dido Elizabeth Belle

England 1769: Admiral Sir John Lindsay has had a daughter by an African slave and puts her in the care of his uncle Lord Mansfield. Dido Elizabeth Belle is said to be raised as an aristocrat like her cousin Elizabeth. But despite all the privileges, many doors remain closed to her as a mulatto. Like other women of her rank, she is soon looking for a suitable husband who corresponds to her status – and yet remains a social outsider because of her origins. But when she falls in love with aspiring legal scholar John Daviner, Dido must make a decision no other woman is faced with at the time.

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