The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s
Bustin Loose (1981)
Failed parolee Joe Braxton has one last shot at redemption by driving school kids to Philadelphia
Maya Angelou and Still I Rise (2016)
The first feature documentary about the remarkable writer, poet, actress, activist Maya Angelou
Sounder (1972)
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food
Relative Stranger (2009)
After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier
A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
In the 1940s South, an African American man is wrongly accused of the killing of a white store owner In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he