I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow (2017)

Это история певицы Тины Тернер, чей незабываемый голос вознёс её из небытия к вершинам в мире музыки. Легенда Рок-н-ролла Тина Тернер начала свою жизнь как Анна Мэй Баллок, в маленькой деревушке в Штате Теннесси. Воспитанная бабушкой, она переехала подростком в город Сент-Луис, где впервые познакомилась со своим будущим мужем Айком Тернером и его группой. Деревенская девушка была потрясена этим человеком и его музыкой. Но со временем Айк превратился из прекрасного парня в монстра, из ревности к ее известности избивавшего супругу по полусмерти. И кто знает, как сложилась бы судьба певицы, если бы не музыка, которая была её призванием.

Сюжет фильма основан на жизни Дайдо Элизабет Белль. Она была внебрачной дочерью капитана королевского флота Джона Линдси, а ее матерью была черная женщина по имени Мария Белль.

История Гарриет Табмен, бывшей рабыни, аболиционистки, которая посвятила жизнь борьбе против рабства. Гарриет регулярно совершала поездки на юг, откуда вывозила рабов, и приняла активное участие в деятельности "подземной железной дороги", переправлявшей беглых рабов из южных штатов на Север или в Канаду.

Команда афро-американок проводит для НАСА ряд математических вычислений, необходимых для запуска первой космической миссии.

The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate activist, told in her own words.

Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in fear for their lives. Not Recy Taylor, who bravely identified her rapists. The NAACP sent its chief rape investigator Rosa Parks, who rallied support and triggered an unprecedented outcry for justice. The film exposes a legacy of physical abuse of black women and reveals Rosa Parks’ intimate role in Recy Taylor’s story.

In the Lifetime® movie, THE FANTASIA BARRINO STORY: LIFE IS NOT A FAIRYTALE, a single teenage mother overcomes all odds - sexual abuse, poverty and illiteracy - by relying on her spectacular singing voice. She ultimately gains national prominence as the winner of a hit talent show. Fantasia Barrino plays herself in this modern true Cinderella story. Also starring Loretta Devine, Kadeem Hardison and Viola Davis.

In 1968, Shirley Chisholm becomes the first black woman elected to Congress. In 1972, she becomes the first black woman to run for president. Shunned by the political establishment, she's supported by a motley crew of blacks, feminists, and young voters. Their campaign-trail adventures are frenzied, fierce and fundamentally right on!

Althea Gibson’s life and achievements transcend sports. A truant from the rough streets of Harlem, Althea emerged as a most unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world in the 1950s. Her roots as a sharecropper’s daughter, her family’s migration north to Harlem in the 1930s, mentoring from Sugar Ray Robinson, David Dinkins and others, and fame that thrust her unwillingly into the glare of the early Civil Rights movement, all bring her story into a much broader realm of the American story.

Prime example of the very silly humor / sexploitation genre coming out of Italy in the 70's. A black women (Carla Brait) begins work as a maid in an apartment complex filled with wacky characters. All the men are over-the-top horndog caricatures who beat each other senseless, chase around loose women and get slack-jawed when they see so much as a bared thigh from the "Black Maid". Silly slapstick humor from the building's doorman, a topless catfight, some role-playing , interracial sex, the amazing Femi Benussi .

A racist skinhead falls in love with a black woman.

The Legend, on Nina’s life and music, was made in France by Frank Lords and it is told in large part by Nina Simone herself. It is an honest portrayal based on her autobiography “I Put A Spell On You,” that shows Nina at her mightiest and at her most vulnerable.

David is transported to the cut-throat world of fashion. Olivia, an up-and-coming fashion designer who gets the opportunity of a lifetime to work for icon Salma Barrie. But things go out of control when Olivia must step up to save the company and fight against a former co-worker who has started a competing company.

Ebony Goddess: Queen of Ilê Aiyê follows three women competing to be the carnival queen of Ilê Aiyê, a prominent and controversial Afro-Brazilian group with an all-black membership. The selection is based on Afro-centric notions of beauty, in counterpoint to prevailing standards of beauty in Brazil, a country famous for slim supermodels and plastic surgery. Contestants for the title of Ebony Goddess dress in flowing African-style garments, gracefully performing traditional Afro-Brazilian dances to songs praising the beauty of black women.

How Winnie Mandela went from innocent country girl to a fighter against apartheid.

FOR MY SISTERS is a movie about black culture or rather: black women, specifially: a movie about black singers. Alberta Hunter, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Nina Simone. They are the four "Big Sisters", singer Carole Alston follows through to the age of jazz. Alston, "a voice as dark and sweet as molasses", as described by the Financial Times, was born in Washington, DC and has been living in Vienna for almost 30 years. She is sure: "Those four icons help you explain what jazz is and even the history of jazz right along."

The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the first class of African-American women to sing their way to fame and fortune. Blues divas such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Alberta Hunter created and promoted a working-class vision of blues life that provided an alternative to the Victorian gentility of middle-class manners. In their lives and music, blues women presented themselves as strong, independent women who lived hard lives and were unapologetic about their unconventional choices in clothes, recreational activities, and bed partners. Blues singers disseminated a Black feminism that celebrated emotional resilience and sexual pleasure, no matter the source.

"Tears of Joy" is a short film depicting one girl's battle with bullying. It was created to create awareness about an issue to which many of our children fall victim.

From a celebrated hoops prodigy to a self-reliant professional basketball star, from Baylor to the WNBA and overseas, Brittney Griner had a wild ride last year. Her trip ended in China, where she drew oohs and aahs from fascinated crowds ... and learned a little something about herself along the way.

Bella strolls on the beach of her youth, reflecting on life.