Black History: Television and Film Listings

The following are a list of television and film events for Black History Month. Many programs are ongoing and are shown throughout the year. Check your local listings.

Black Entertainment Television:    

  • Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel
  • “One Night Only Marathon”: Reality docu-soap: Six New Orleans high school kids and their drama teacher race to mount the “Dreamgirls” play in the aftermath and the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina
  • The MC: This is Why We Do It
  • Black & Blue: Legends of the Hip-Hop Cop
  • The Art of 16 Bars

HBO:

  • Bastards of the Party. Former Bloods gang member Cle “Bone” Sloan looks at the history of Black gangs in Los Angeles
  • When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. Spike Lee’s documentary on Hurricane Katrina
  • Ithuteng (Never Stop Learning)

History Channel:

  • A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day
  • Digging for the Truth—Ramses: Visions of Greatness
  • Egyptian Warfare

  PBS:

  • Independent Lens—Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes  
  • Sisters of Selma: Bearing Witness for Change 
  • The Story of Oscar Brown, Jr.

  PBS Encore Presentations:

  • Deford Bailey: A Legend Lost   
  • African American Lives   
  • America Beyond the Color Line with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.   
  • American Experience “Eyes on the Prize”   
  • Fannie Lou Hamer: Courage And Faith   
  • Point of View “Chisholm ‘72—Unbought & Unbossed”   
  • Slavery and the Making of America
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