2024 Drama / Historical Drama Film Writers: RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes Elwood Curtis’ college dreams are shattered when he’s sentenced to Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory in the Jim Crow South. Clinging to his optimistic worldview, Elwood strikes up a friendship with Turner, a fellow Black teen who dispenses fundamental tips for survival.

2016 Drama / History Feature Writers: Nate Parker Nat Turner is an enslaved Baptist preacher who lives on a Virginia plantation owned by Samuel Turner. With rumors of insurrection in the air, a cleric convinces Samuel that Nate should sermonize to other slaves, thereby quelling any notions of an uprising. As Nate witnesses the horrific […]

1992 Drama/ History Feature Writers: Spike Lee, James Baldwin, Arnold Perl A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the ’50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a […]

2017 Drama/Historical Drama Feature Writers: Virgil Williams, Dee Rees Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband’s Mississippi Delta farm, a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family’s struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura’s brother-in-law, is everything her […]

2023 Drama, History, Romance Series Writer: Shonda Rhimes Charlotte demands a declaration from George ahead of the future king’s arrival. Lady Danbury and Princess Augusta cross swords over the Great Experiment.

2021 Biography, Drama, History Feature Film In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.

2022 Action, Drama, History Feature Film In the 1800s, Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors, protect the African Kingdom of Dahomey with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen,. General Nanisca trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of […]

2021 Biography, Drama, History Feature Film FBI informant William O’Neal infiltrates the Illinois Black Panther Party and is tasked with keeping tabs on their charismatic leader, Chairman Fred Hampton. A career thief, O’Neal revels in the danger of manipulating both his comrades and his handler, Special Agent Roy Mitchell. Hampton’s political prowess grows just as […]