MoonlightMoonlight is a 2016 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Barry Jenkins, based on Tarell Alvin McCraney's unpublished semi-autobiographical play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.
Call Number: DVD Drama 6714
ISBN: 631676443X
PariahAlike is a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents and younger sister in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. She has a flair for poetry, and is a good student at her local high school. Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian.
Call Number: DVD Drama 5251
ISBN: 025192113260
Tongues Untied by Marlon RiggsIn an experimental amalgam of rap music, street poetry, documentary film, and dance, a gay African-American man expresses what it is like to be gay and black in the United States.
Call Number: DVD Documentary 5419
Looking for LangstonA lyrical and poetic consideration of the life of revered Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes ; Isaac Julien invokes Hughes as a black gay cultural icon, against an impressionistic, atmospheric setting that parallels a Harlem speakeasy of the 1920s with a 1980s London underground nightclub.
Call Number: DVD Documentary 6873
Paris is BurningThe "unblinking behind-the-scenes story of the fashion-obsessed New Yorkers who created 'voguing' and drag balls, and turned these raucous celebrations into a powerful expression of fierce personal pride."
Call Number: DVD
ISBN: 9780788861499
Portrait of JasonThis portrait of Jason Holliday, a black gay prostitute who dreams of a career as a nightclub performer, is drawn from twelve consecutive hours of filming in a New York City apartment.
Call Number: DVD Documentary 6165
ISBN: 9781933920634
U Peoplen a brownstone in Brooklyn ... thirty women and trans folks of color bridged their differences in the creation of an unprecedented music video. U People is an incidental documentary that introduces a ... voice into the discussion of gay and straight relations
Call Number: DVD Documentary 6928
The Color PurpleThe Color Purple chornicles the traumatic life of Celie, a Southern African-American woman living in the early 20th century. Celie overcomes racism and sexism and triumphantly finds herself in the process.
Call Number: DVD Drama 6958
August WilsonTwo-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson returns home to the Hill District of Pittsburgh in 1990 to review his life and career. Archival footage and interviews with Wilson, former New York Times theater critic Frank Rich, Rob Penny, fellow writers, and others provide insights into the African American experience, from the Great Black Migration to more recent times.