Charles Burnett Movies

Looks at the United States as it becomes an increasingly diverse nation. Tracing the history of significant changes in the Immigration and...

Charlie Banks, chronically unemployed, struggles to find dignity and a meaning for life in the impoverished Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts.

In the course of a botched purse-snatching, a boy comes to question the path of his life. Billy Woodberry’s second film, and first completed in...

In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of local slave owners and their families, the eventual...

After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.

A single mother ekes out a living from welfare check to welfare check, struggling to provide for her daughter.

The story of Dorothy and her husband T.C. He is a discharged Vietnam veteran who thought he would return home to a "hero's welcome." Instead he is...

A woman in a Hollywood dubbing studio struggles with race and preconceptions.

Filmmaker Thomas Penick explores race, gender and violence in this provocative, disturbing drama set on a hot, summer day in 1969. When a woman...

A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the...

With dreams of fame and fortune, Faith goes to Washington where she quickly discovers that the life of a budding starlet can be tougher than the...

What does it mean to be Black in America in the 21st century? The recently formed Black American film group TNEG™ has set out to elucidate this...

Sa-I-Gu, literally translated in Korean as April 29, is the day of the 1992 Los Angeles riots or uprising. Three months after the events, the...

Filmmaker Robert Townsend executive-produced the following fifty-six-minute program for Criterion’s Meet the Filmmakers series in 2018. In it,...

This video work intermingles fiction with actuality in a poignant confrontation with homelessness.

An African American woman living away from her family in Los Angeles yearns to be recognized for more than her physical attributes. In cultivating...

A Little League baseball game becomes the unlikely context for this lyrical drama about memory and loss, told from the perspective of a...

Conflicts arise when a middle aged African American school teacher decides to visit her father's homeland of communist Cuba.