The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through interviews recorded in the late '90s.

A documentary about the jazz standard and it's roots in Jewish and African-American culture/
Poetic stroll in the work of Jean Genet.

Documentary film on events that happened on August 28th in African-American history, shown at the Sm...

Maurice Hines -- actor, director, singer, and choreographer -- navigates the complications of show b...

This profile of storied trumpeter of jazz, Tiny Davis, and her cohort pianist-drummer, Ruby Lucas, i...

Weaving blistering performance footage from Europe, Japan, and the U.S. with a sublimely restrained,...

A son seeking to fulfill his late father’s dream takes his band from the storied city of New Orleans...

A docu-drama depicting the life and work of celebrated North Georgia poet and novelist Byron Herbert...

Harlem, 1926. A “sweetman” Zeddy, living off a woman, brings a country girl he’s trying to impress t...

A comprehensive history of European Jazz, exploring the origins of the US-influenced Jazz clubs afte...

An underprivileged, gifted young black man from Newark reaches Yale University, only for shadows and...

Voices in Wartime is a 2004 documentary that explores the human experience of war through poetry. Co...

Tenor saxophonist, composer and producer Kamasi Washington and his band perform a special show at Ha...

Denver’s iconic and Grammy Award-winning musicians reveal the secrets of their success and longevity...
Traces the life of Booker T. Washington, ex-slave, author, educator, and political leader, focusing ...

Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one...

A young student filmmaker in an attempt to shoot a documentary gets lost in New Orleans. Out of fear...

About Jösta Hagelbäck (1945-2009), Swedish film director, writer, poet, musician, actor etc. A human...

Cacaso, a Brazilian poet, lived in Rio de Janeiro. Born Antonio Carlos de Brito (1944-1987) he was o...

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morris...