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  1. Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity

    By Khamisi

    A cinematic ode to jazz legend, Wayne Shorter. Depicted in 3 portals, the viewer is transported into prolific periods of Shorter's life and how through adversity, he grew to greatness, shattered the limitations of jazz, and became one of the most influential musicians and composers in American music.

    • Documentary

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  2. Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

    By Khamisi

    The Drum Waltzes explores the life and music of legendary drummer, activist Max Roach, his creative peaks, personal struggles and re-inventions from the Jim Crow to Civil Rights eras, from heady days of post-war jazz to hip hop and beyond.

    • Running Time: 1hr 22min
    • Documentary

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  3. Black Art: In the Absence of Light

    By Khamisi

    An introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today, inspired by the late David Driskell's landmark 1976 exhibition, "Two Centuries of Black American Art."

    • Running Time: 1hr 25min
    • Documentary

    Submitted

  4. Two Dollars and A Dream: The Story of Madame C.J. Walker

    By Khamisi

    The biography of Madame C.J. Walker, America's first self-made millionairess. Mrs. Walker's fortune was built on skin and hair care products, parlaying a homemade beauty formula into a prosperous business from coast to coast. By interweaving social, economic and political history, the film also offers a view of black America from 1867 to the 1930s.

    • Running Time: 52min
    • Documentary

    Submitted

  5. Crack Baby

    By Khamisi

    Nyree has been fighting her entire life even before she was born a crack baby during the mid 80's crack epidemic. She overcame the struggles of having a mother addicted to crack and father in person for most of her childhood.

    • Running Time: 53min
    • Documentary

    Submitted

  6. Wonders of the African World

    By Khamisi

    Africa is a continent of magnificent treasures and cultures — from the breathtaking stone architecture of 1,000-year-old ruins in South Africa to an advanced 16th century international university in Timbuktu. However, for centuries, many of these African wonders have been hidden from the world, lost to the ravages of time, nature and repressive governments. Join Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates, on the journey from Zanzibar to Timbuktu, the Nile River Valley to Great Zimbabwe, the slave coas

    • Episode Time: 5hr 19min
    • Documentary

    Submitted

  7. Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

    By Khamisi

    The film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights Movement’s greatest leaders. Throughout the 1960s, Fannie Lou Hamer established a legacy of civil rights and human rights activism that remains relevant to this day – especially among Black youth.

    • Running Time: 1hr 30min
    • Documentary

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  8. The Trials of Muhammad Ali

    By Khamisi

    Brash boxer Cassius Clay burst into the American consciousness in the early 1960s, just ahead of the Civil Rights movement. His transformation into the spiritually enlightened heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali is legendary, but this religious awakening also led to a bitter legal battle with the U.S. government after he refused to serve in the Vietnam War. This film reveals the perfect storm of race, religion and politics that shaped one of the most recognizable figures in sports history.

    • Running Time: 1hr 26min
    • Documentary

    Submitted

  9. You Belong to Me: Sex, Race and Murder in the South

    By Khamisi

    In 1952 Ruby McCollum, a black woman, killed her white doctor in Live Oak, Fla after years of sexual abuse. The remarkable secrets and terrible truths revealed during her trial and incarceration haunted jurors and prosecutors for decades.

    • Running Time: 1hr 28min
    • Documentary, Crime and Drama

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  10. A Great Day in Harlem

    By Khamisi

    Art Kane, now deceased, coordinated a group photograph of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the year 1958, for a piece in Esquire magazine. Just about every jazz musician at the time showed up for the photo shoot which took place in front of a brownstone near the 125th street station. The documentary compiles interviews of many of the musicians in the photograph to talk about the day of the photograph, and it shows film footage taken that day by Milt Hinton and his wife.

    • Running Time: 1hr
    • Documentary and Music

    Submitted

  11. Wrestled Away: The Lee Kemp Story

    By Khamisi

    Wrested Away: The Lee Kemp Story features compelling interviews from every person who has played a significant role in the rise and fall - and rise again - on one of America's greatest wrestlers, Lee Kemp.

    • Running Time: 1hr 9min
    • Documentary

    Submitted

  12. Uncle Tom

    By Khamisi

    In a collection of intimate interviews with some of America's most provocative black conservative thinkers, Uncle Tom takes a unique look at being black in America. Featuring media personalities, ministers, civil rights activists, veterans, and a self-employed plumber, the film explores their personal journeys of navigating the world as one of America's most misunderstood political and cultural groups: The American Black Conservative. In this eye-opening film from Director Justin Malone and Exec

    • Running Time: 1hr 46min
    • Documentary and History

    Submitted

  13. Nelson Sargento

    By Khamisi

    Biographical portrait of samba dancer Nelson Sargento in Morro da Mangueira, Rio de Janeiro.

    • Running Time: 22min
    • Documentary

    Submitted

  14. African Queens: Njinga

    By Khamisi

    Blending dramatization with documentary, this series traces the rise and reign of Queen Njinga of Angola amid family betrayal and political rivalries. Executive produced and narrated by Jada Pinkett Smith, this docuseries about warrior Queen Njinga of Angola features expert interviews and reenactments.

    • Documentary

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  15. The Green Book

    By Khamisi

    In 1936, Victor H. Green (1892-1960) published The Negro Motorist Green Book, a book that was both a travel guide and a survival manual, to help African-Americans navigate safe those regions of the United States where segregation and Jim Crow laws were disgracefully applied.

    • Running Time: 52min
    • Documentary, History and TV Movie

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  16. Toots and the Maytals Reggae Got Soul

    By Khamisi

    This is the never-before-told story of one of the most influential artists ever to come out of Jamaica, Toots Hibbert. It features intimate new performances and interviews with Toots, rare archive from throughout his career, and interviews with contemporaries and well-known admirers including Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Jimmy Cliff, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Marcia Griffiths and Paolo Nutini.

    • Running Time: 59min
    • Music

    Submitted

  17. Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North

    By Khamisi

    The film focuses on the descendants of the DeWolf family, a prominent slave trading family who settled in Bristol, Rhode Island, who trafficked Africans from 1769 to 1820, and the legacy of the slave trade in the North of the United States. The film follows ten family members as they retrace the triangle trade starting at Linden Place in Bristol, Rhode Island, the hometown of the DeWolfs. The family has been prominent in local businesses and banking, as academics, in the local Episcopal and othe

    • Running Time: 1hr 26min
    • Documentary and History

    Submitted

  18. Pelé

    By Khamisi

    Against the backdrop of a turbulent era in Brazil, this documentary captures Pelé's extraordinary path from breakthrough talent to national hero. Mixing rare archival footage and exclusive interviews, this documentary celebrates the legendary Brazilian footballer who personified football as art.

    • Running Time: 1hr 48min
    • Documentary

    Submitted

  19. The 600: The Soldier’s Story

    By Khamisi

    In April of 1994, 600 men and women of the Rwandan Patriotic Army were stationed behind Government lines in Kigali, as a security force for politicians negotiating a coalition government. Instead, after extremists assassinated their own president, a full scale, pre-meditated slaughter began of moderate Hutus and all Tutsi civilians, and The 600 were their only hope. In Kigali, the Government forces numbered around 10,000, and were assisted by civilian militia of an even greater number. Neverthel

    • Running Time: 1hr 57min
    • Documentary

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  20. B.B. King: Live In Africa '74

    By Khamisi

    In 1974, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman held their heavyweight title fight in Zaire, billing it as the "Rumble in the Jungle". A three-day music festival was staged concurrently, and B.B. King was the headlining act. Anyone who has ever had the fortune to see B.B. King play live, even in his later, seated years knows that he is a consummate showman. B.B. King: Live in Africa '74 presents the man at the peak of his powers, as a performer and as a player.

    • Running Time: 43min
    • Documentary and Music

    Submitted

  21. The Empire in Africa

    By Khamisi

    The story of the war the international community waged against civil war-stricken Sierra Leone. The film deals with tragedy of the 11-year civil war in Sierra Leone. The film has used natural brutal events and tragedies along with the narratives and other international discussions as well as footage from the Sierra Leone, United Nations, and European community. The film also described the life of Sierra Leone and its people eleven years later, where about 70,000 men, women and children had been

    • Running Time: 1hr 27min
    • Documentary

    Submitted

  22. Samuel Morris: The African Missionary to North America

    By Khamisi

    In 1892, 18-year-old Prince Kaboo of Liberia's Kru tribe had been captured by the rival Grebos. When Kaboo's people could not pay his ransom, the young prince was readied for execution. But at the last minute, there was a blinding flash of light and a mysterious voice that said, 'Run Kaboo, run!' Escaping his enemies, Kaboo found his way to an American Missionary outpost where he became a Christian. After learning all he could from the American missionaries, Kaboo (now taking on the name Samuel

    • Running Time: 58min
    • Documentary

    Submitted

  23. American Gangster: Trap Queens

    By Khamisi

    American Gangster: Trap Queens is a new installment of the critically acclaimed American Gangster series that examines the lives and the legend behind some of America's most notorious female criminals.

    • Episode Time: 40min
    • Crime, Crime and Documentary

    Submitted

  24. American Gangster

    By Khamisi

    "American Gangster" chronicles the life and times of some of Black America’s most notorious crime figures. The show will explore without glorifying, and investigate without celebrating these criminal-minded men and women. Each episode will blend news footage, photographs and interviews in a compelling, magazine-style format.

    • Episode Time: 1hr
    • Documentary

    Submitted

  25. The Gospel According to André

    By Khamisi

    From the segregated American South to the fashion capitals of the world, operatic fashion editor André Leon Talley's life and career are on full display, in a poignant portrait that includes appearances by Anna Wintour, Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford, Bethann Hardison, Valentino, and Manolo Blahnik.

    • Running Time: 1hr 34min
    • Documentary

    Submitted



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