List of African-American documentary films

This list of African American documentary films (1930s–present) includes

1930s

• Marian Anderson: the Lincoln Memorial Concert
  * (1939)

1940s

• Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (1940)
• Henry Browne, Farmer (1942)
• Negro Colleges in War Time (1943)
• The Negro Soldier (1944)
• The Negro Sailor (1945)
• Wings for This Man (1945)
• The Quiet One (1948)

1950s

• All My Babies (1953)
• A City Decides * (1956)
• The Cry of Jazz (1959)

1960s

• Integration Report 1 (1960)
• The Five Cities of June * (1963)
• Take This Hammer (1963)
• Children Without (1964)
• The March * (1964)
• Nine from Little Rock * (1964)
• A Time for Burning (1966)
• The Jungle (1967)
• Legendary Champions (1968)
• Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther (1969)

1970s

• A.k.a. Cassius Clay (1970)
• Black Roots (1970)
• Jack Johnson (1970)
• King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis * (1970)
• The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
• Black Rodeo (1972)
• Malcolm X * (1972)
• Black Shadows on a Silver Screen (1974)
• Always for Pleasure (1978)
• Goodnight Miss Ann (1978)
• 80 Blocks From Tiffany's
  (1979)
• Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979)

1980s

• Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle * (1982)
• Style Wars (1983)
• You Got to Move * (1985)
• Ethnic Notions (1987)
• Eyes on the Prize, part I * (1987)
• Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (1987)
• The Spirit Moves: A History of Black Social Dance on Film, 1900–1986 (1987)
• Adam Clayton Powell * (1989)
• Tongues Untied (1989)

1990s

• Paris Is Burning (film) (1990)
• Eyes on the Prize, part II * (1990)
• Color Adjustment (1992)
• A Great Day in Harlem (1994)
• Freedom on My Mind * (1994)
• Malcolm X: Make It Plain * (1994)
• A Time for Justice * (1994)
• Black is... Black Ain't
  (1995)
• VINTAGE - Families of Value (1995)
• All God's Children (1996)
• All Power to the People (1996)
• The Church of Saint Coltrane
  (1996)
• The Last Angel of History (1996)
• 4 Little Girls * (1997)
• Blacks and Jews (1997)
• Colors Straight Up (1997)
• Midnight Ramble (1997)
• MPG: Motion Picture Genocide (1997)

2000s

• 4CHOSEN: The Documentary
  (2008)
• Afro-Punk (2003)
• Banished (2006)
• Beah: A Black Woman Speaks (2003)
• The Black Candle (2008)
• The Black List: Volume 1
  (2008)
• The Black List: Volume 2
  (2009)
• The Blues
  (2003)
• Hairkutt (2005)
• Colored Frames * (2007)
• Dare Not Walk Alone * (2006)
• E Minha Cara/That's My Face (2002)
• Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans (2008)
• February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four *
• Flight of the Red Tail
• Frederick Douglass and the White Negro (2008)
• From Swastika to Jim Crow
• A Girl Like Me
• Good Hair
• Hardwood
• Home of the Brave* (2004)
• Jim Brown: All-American
• LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
• Legacy (2000)
• Maafa 21
• Marcus Garvey: Look for me in the Whirlwind
• Meeting David Wilson
• Mighty Times: The Children's March *
• Mississippi Cold Case *
• My Nappy Roots: A Journey Through Black Hair-itage
• Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power (2004)
• Neshoba *
• The Pact (2006)
• Red Tail Reborn (2007)
• Revolution '67
• Rize
• Salute (2008)
• Scottsboro: An American Tragedy *
• Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech
• Sister Wife
• Slavery and the Making of America
• Soundtrack for a Revolution *
• Street Fight
• The Sugar Babies
• Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice
• This Is the Life (2008)
• Tradition Is a Temple
• Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela
• Why We Bang
• The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306 *

2010s

• 13th
• The Barber of Birmingham *
• The Black List: Volume 3
  (2010)
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
• The Czar of Black Hollywood
• Dark Girls
• The Fab Five
• Freedom Riders *
• Hale County This Morning, This Evening
• Hidden Colors, part 1: The Untold History Of People Of Aboriginal, Moor, and African Descent (2011)
• Hidden Colors, part 2: The Triumph of Melanin (2012)
• Hidden Colors, part 3: The Rules of Racism (2014)
• Hidden Colors, part 4: The Religion of White Supremacy (2016)
• I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
• In the Hour of Chaos *
• Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
• "Good Hair" and Other Dubious Distinctions
• Motherland
• No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson
• No Lye: An American Beauty Story
• O.J.: Made in America (2016)
• Reincarnated (2013), on Snoop Dogg's conversion to Rastafari

• Mama Gloria (2020)

See also

• The Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers
• The Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers West
• The Black Documentary Collective