Musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti recorded more than 60 albums to promote the magic of Afrobeat but never lost his political voice as an outspoken critic against widespread government corruption in Nigeria. This documentary examines the role that Fela, dubbed "Black President," played in shedding light on atrocities in his homeland and in promoting the ascent of African music worldwide.
A huge influence on world music, Nigerian artist Fela Kuti played many instruments, pioneered afrobe...
Travel with Major Lazer to Ghana and Nigeria to make the world smaller by making the party bigger. T...
Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti performs at the 1984 Glastonbury Festival. Originally produced for Arena.
Aline Morales is one of the main broadcasters of Maracatu in Toronto. From a meeting with members of...
In September of 2017, 77 year old Nigerian drummer Tony Allen was invited to record the album 'What ...
Lisa, a plus-sized African American woman, concludes that her boyfriend broke up with her because of...
Afrobeat emerged in Lagos, Nigeria in the 1970s. The film follows an Afrobeat tube broadcast, from i...
Shizuko Kasagi and Hideko Takamine star as young women who try to raise money for a needy old friend...
Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the mo...
Humphrey Jennings’s wartime short rallies Britain’s countryside, showing fields ploughed up from fal...
Teenage beach party/spy spoof/musical comedy about a plot to bomb a music fair. As his boss is on va...
In the compelling follow-up to the internationally award-winning documentary, "Burzynski: the Movie,...
"Working with Orson Welles" is a low-budget production put together by Gary Graver, who worked as a ...
Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently un...
Shy farmboy loves his next-door neighbor, but she dreams of going to the big city. Then she gets mix...
Musical documentary film about the similarities between two types of music genres known as Salsa and...
In the sixth installment of the Criterion Channel's Meet the Filmmakers series, director Alex Ross P...
Grace Fisher was an active musician and dancer until a rare spine disease almost derailed her buddin...