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Kindred

Kindred

Movies and TV
A young aspiring writer discovers secrets about her family's past when she finds herself mysteriously being pulled back and forth in time to a 19th century plantation.
Cast & Crew
  • Mallori Johnson
  • Austin Smith
  • Antoinette Crowe-Legacy
Tags
  • Science Fiction
  • Based on Book
  • Drama
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

Movies and TV
Suddenly left without his trusted caretaker, Ptolemy Grey is assigned to the care of orphaned teenager Robyn. When they learn about a treatment that will restore Ptolemy’s dementia-addled memories, it begins a journey toward shocking truths.
Cast & Crew
  • Samuel L. Jackson
  • Dominique Fishback
  • Cynthia Kaye McWilliams
  • Damon Gupton
  • Marsha Stephanie Blake
  • Omar Benson Miller
Tags
  • Drama
  • Based on Book
DMZ

DMZ

Movies and TV
In the near future after a bitter civil war leaves Manhattan a demilitarized zone (DMZ), destroyed and isolated from the rest of the world, fierce medic Alma Ortega sets out on a harrowing journey to find the son she lost in the evacuation of New York City at the onset of the conflict. Standing in her way are gangs, militias, demagogues and warlords, including Parco Delgado, the popular — and deadly — leader of one of the most powerful gangs in the DMZ.
Cast & Crew
  • Rosario Dawson
Tags
  • Drama
  • Science Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Based on Book
Passing

Passing

Movies and TV
The unexpected reunion of two high school friends, Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield, ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities.
Cast & Crew
  • Ruth Negga
  • Tessa Thompson
  • André Holland
Tags
  • Drama
  • Based on Book
A Journal for Jordan

A Journal for Jordan

Movies and TV
Chronicles Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Canedy's relationship with a soldier named Charles Monroe King. Deployed overseas in combat zones, he began writing a journal full of life lessons for their newborn son Jordan.
Cast & Crew
  • Michael B. Jordan
  • Chanté Adams
  • Robert Wisdom
  • Tamara Tunie
Tags
  • Drama
  • Based on Book
  • Black Love
High On The Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America

High On The Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America

Movies and TV
Food, community, culture, resiliency. Based on Jessica B. Harris’ award-winning book, High On The Hog traces the moving story of a people's survival and triumph via the food that has knit generations together and helped define the American kitchen. From Gumbo to fried chicken, our culinary journey stretches from Africa to enslavement, to the Harlem Renaissance, up to our present-day; we celebrate the courage, artistry, and resourcefulness of the African American people. This is not just an Af...
Cast & Crew
  • Stephen Satterfield
Tags
  • Documentary
  • History
  • Based on Book
Yardie

Yardie

Movies and TV
Jamaica, 1973. When a young boy witnesses his brother’s assassination, a powerful Don gives him a home. But 10 years later, when he’s sent to London, his past catches up to him.
Cast & Crew
  • Aml Ameen
  • Fraser James
  • Sheldon Shepherd
  • Shantol Jackson
Tags
  • Crime
  • Based on Book
Noughts + Crosses

Noughts + Crosses

Movies and TV
In an alternate history where black “Cross” people rule over white “Noughts”, young couple Sephy and Callum are divided by their colour but united by love.
Cast & Crew
  • Masali Baduza
  • Rakie Ayola
Tags
  • Drama
  • Science Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Based on Book
  • Dystopia
The Good Lord Bird

The Good Lord Bird

Movies and TV
Enslaved teenager Henry Shackleford, aka Little Onion, becomes a member in abolitionist John Brown’s motley family during the Bleeding Kansas era before the Civil War.
Cast & Crew
  • Daveed Diggs
  • Joshua Caleb Johnson
  • Orlando Jones
  • McKinley Belcher III
  • Miles Mussenden
Tags
  • Drama
  • Slavery
  • Based on Book
  • Historical Fiction
  • Abolitionist
Lovecraft Country

Lovecraft Country

Movies and TV
The anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Black, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.
Cast & Crew
  • Aunjanue Ellis
  • Courtney B. Vance
  • Jonathan Majors
  • Jurnee Smollett-Bell
  • Michael Kenneth Williams
  • Wunmi Mosaku
  • Jordan Peele
  • Misha Green
  • Erica Tazel
Tags
  • Fantasy
  • Horror
  • Science Fiction
  • Adventure
  • Based on Book
Brown Girl Begins

Brown Girl Begins

Movies and TV
It's 2049 on a forsaken island off the coast of Toronto where the survival of the islanders depends on young Ti-Jeanne to risk death by a spirit so she can take her place as a caribbean priestess and save her people.
Cast & Crew
  • Mouna Traoré
  • Sharon Lewis
Tags
  • Fantasy
  • Science Fiction
  • Based on Book
  • Afrofuturism
Dear White People

Dear White People

Movies and TV
At a predominantly white Ivy League college, a diverse group of students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.
Cast & Crew
  • Brandon P. Bell
  • Marque Richardson
  • Logan Browning
  • DeRon Horton
  • Giancarlo Esposito
  • Justin Simien
  • Obba Babatundé
  • Lena Waithe
  • Antoinette Robertson
  • Jeremy Tardy
  • Ashley Blaine Featherson
Tags
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Satire
  • Activism
  • Based on Book
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