Last showing - "I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO" documentary film
In only 1 location: Electric Cinema - Shoreditch, 64-66 Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, London E2 7DP,
Sunday 16th July 2017, at 14:45
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Some notable and unfamiliar personalities who have marked and are marking their time and or their communities in the 20th and 21st centuries; Issues within our communities; Political Activism; Documentaries; Films and Books you cannot ignore.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Personalities
Movements and Perspectives
Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), South Africa
Black Liberation Theology, USA
Black Nationalism, USA
Black Power, USA
Civil Rights, Brazil
Civil Rights, England
Civil Rights, USA
Griot movement, Haiti
Nation of Islam, USA
Negrismo, Hispanic Caribbean
Négritude, France
Noirisme, Haiti
Pan Africanism, England
Documentaries, Films and Books
12 years a slave, 2013, Steve McQueen - film
500 Years Later, 2008, Owen ‘Alik Shahadah – documentary
Africans of the Diaspora, The Evolution of African Consciousness and Leadership in the Americas, (From Slavery to the 1920s), 2000, Vincent Bakpetu Thompson – book
Ali,2001, Michael Mann, film
Batouala, 1921, René Maran – book (French)
Before they Die, 2008, The True Story of the Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Riot and their Quest for Justice – documentary
Black People in the British Empire, 1988, Peter Fryer – book
Britain’s forgotten slave owners, 2015, BBC2 – documentary
Chocolat, 2016, Roschdy Zem – film (French)
Comment est perçue l'Afrique aux Antilles ? (The image of Africa in the French Caribbean islands), 2015, audio documentary (French)
Gifted Hands, 1996, Ben Carson – book
Glory, 1989, Edward Zwick – film
Hidden figures, 2016, Theodore Melfi – film
Islam’s Black Slaves, 2002, Ronald Segal – book
Journey to Freedom, 2013, Willow Hale - film
La France Noire, 2011, Pascal Blanchard – book; Noirs de France, documentary (French)
Les Derniers Maîtres de la Martinique, 2009, Romain Bolzinger – documentary (French)
Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African Negro King; and his Experience of Slavery in South Carolina, 1847, Zamba Zembola – book
Night of Fire, The Black Napoleon and the Battle for Haiti, 1994, Martin Ros – book
Noirs dans les camps Nazis (Blacks in Nazi camps), 2005, Serge Bilé – book (French)
Paroles d’Esclaves : les derniers témoignages (Slave narratives, Last memories), 2011, Serge Bilé – book, (French)
Roots, 1976, The Saga of an American Family, Alex Haley – book and 1977, miniseries
Rue Cases Negres, 1983, Euzhan Palcy – film (French)
Salute, 2008, story recounting the famous 1968 ‘Black Power Salute’ given by gold medallist Tommie Smith and John Carlos – documentary
Selma, 2015, Ava DuVernay – film
The Bible, it explains the birth of all the nations, tribes, tongues and peoples – book
The Birth of a Nation, 2016, Nate Parker - Film
The Black Diaspora, 1995, Ronald Segal – book
The Book of Negroes, 2007, Lawrence Hill – book and 2015, miniseries. For the historical document, follow this link “Book of Negroes”
The Great Debaters, 2007, Denzel Washington – film
The Help, 2009, Kathryn Stockett – book; The Help, 2011, Tate Taylor – film
The Oxford Companion to Black British History, 2007, David Dabydeen, John Gilmore and Cecily Jones – book
The Purple Colour, 1982, Alice Walker – book
Tula: The Revolt, 2013,Jeroen Leinders – film
When We Ruled, 2007, Robin Walker – book
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America, 2003, James Allen – documentary
Issues
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Africa
Comment est perçue l'Afrique aux Antilles ? (The image of Africa in the French Caribbean islands), 2015, RFI radio – debate (French)
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Hair
Good Hair, 2009, Chris Rock – documentary
My Nappy Roots, A Journey Through Black Hair–itage, 2008, Regina Kimbell – documentary
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Mixed race/ Black–White relationships
Black inter-racial relationships, 2012, XewXew TV - documentary
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Religion
Black Church Inc., 2013, Moguldom Films – documentary
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Reparations
The Big Questions – Reparations, 2014, BBC1, TV debate
Juliette Sméralda : les réparations de l'esclavage, (debate on reparations) 2014, Zouk TV, TV debate (French)
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Skin: whitening and colour discrimination
Décapante beauté noire, 2012, Sony Michael Mina – documentary (French)
Dark Girls, 2012, Bill Duke - documentary
Skin bleaching in Jamaica, 2013, Angles TV – documentary
Qui veut être noir au Brésil ? (Who wants to be black in Brazil?), 2014, Joana Gorjão Henriques – documentary (Portuguese with French subtitles)
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