Margaret Avery

Culture critic and historian Elvis Mitchell traces the evolution — and revolution — of Black cinema from its origins to the impactful films of the 1970s.

In this action-packed sequel, a retired drug dealer living in Paris discovers his old partner has been killed and returns to NY to avenge his murder.

Celie, a Southern Black woman, gains self-respect as she strives to educate herself and to find love--despite an abusive spouse and a society biased against her race and her sex.

A California fruit picker becomes a labour hero, then a womanising corporate flunky and gets transformed by greed.

Martin Lawrence discovers that going home is no vacation in this hysterical comedy also starring Mo’Nique, Mike Epps and Cedric the Entertainer.

A nagging toothache sends the young son of a sharecropping family on an eye-opening odyssey through the privilege of white 1940’s Louisiana.

The story of the NAACP’s first field secretary, whose battle for equality tragically ended with his assassination at the hand of a white supremacist.

A gangster becomes the most wanted man in New York City after taking on a corrupt district attorney and the Harlem mafia in this explosive thriller.

On August 11, 1965, a routine traffic stop on a hot summer night sparks years of pent-up frustration within Los Angeles' African American community into a race riot that shocks the United States as it rages out of control for days. In this true story, when the all-white staff of main newspaper in the city, The Los Angeles Times, cannot get into work, a young, black trainee Robert Richardson writes a series of Pulitzer prize-winning articles covering the riots. But as Richardson witnesses the excessive violence used by the police and national guard, he is torn between the impartiality required of a reporter and his need to rage against injustice.

Mary, a steely hit woman working for a local Boston Mob family, finds a protective instinct for a little boy while out for a kill.

A formerly incarcerated engineer is blackmailed by an inmate to provide the blueprints to a bank security system he plans to rob.