Black Panther (2018)
After his father's death, T'Challa returns home to Wakanda to inherit his throne. However, a powerful enemy related to his family threatens to attack his nation. |
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Hair Love (2019)
Hair Love is a 2019 American animated short film written and directed by Matthew A. Cherry and co-produced with Karen Rupert Toliver. It follows the story of a man who must do his daughter's hair for the first time, and it features Issa Rae as a voice of the mother. |
Selma (2014)
From the Oscar-winning producers of 12 Years a Slave and acclaimed director Ava DuVernay comes the true story of courage and hope that changed the world forever. Golden Globe nominee David Oyelowo shines as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who rallied his followers on the historic march from Selma to Montgomery in the face of violent opposition; an event that became a milestone victory for the civil rights movement. Oscar nominees Oprah Winfrey and Tom Wilkinson also star in this landmark film. |
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Mudbound (2017)
Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm, a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not - charming and handsome, but he is haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, now battles the prejudice in the Jim Crow South. |
Just Mercy (2019)World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
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HarrietBased on the true story of Harriet Tubman, an American abolitionist and activist who helped hundreds of people escape slavery via the Underground Railroad- a network of abolitionists and safe-houses.
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Moonlight (2016)
Chiron, a young African-American boy, finds guidance in Juan, a drug dealer, who teaches him to carve his own path. As he grows up in Miami, Juan's advice leaves a lasting impression on him. The film presents three stages in the life of the main character: his childhood, adolescence, and early adult life. It explores the difficulties he faces with his sexuality and identity, including the physical and emotional abuse he endures growing up. |
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Anything is Possible: Serge Ibaka documentary (2019)
Serge Ibaka, a newly crowned NBA Champion with the Toronto Raptors, journeys home to the Republic of Congo, with the NBA Championship trophy to inspire his community. He has an emotional homecoming in Brazzaville, where he grew up poor and sometimes homeless, having been left by himself after his mother’s death when he was 7 and his father’s imprisonment shortly thereafter. Despite these overwhelming obstacles, he achieved his dream of becoming an NBA Champion and becoming the first person to bring the trophy back to the Congo. |
Canada's Unchecked Racism (2019)
What makes Canadian racism so unique is that you almost don’t notice it. This film follows two young non-white individuals who grew up experiencing invisible discrimination in Canada. Director: Zoë Davidson |
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Ballet After Dark (2019)
A woman of color heals through dance...And uses social media to do the same for others Director: Barbara K. Asare-Bediako |
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The Carter Effect (2017)
An entertaining homage to a sports legend, and a love letter to Toronto, The Carter Effect captures the intoxicating mix of civic pride, music and diversity that makes Toronto so unique. The Carter Effect was nominated for Best Documentary at the Cleveland International Film Festival. |
Hidden Figures (2016)
The story of African-American women who served as human computers and made other vital contributions to NASA during the '50s and '60s that helped launched the unmanned space flight program. |
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Everybody's Children (2011)
Film-maker Monika Delmos captures a year in the life of two teenage refugees who have left their home countries to make a new life in Ontario, where they bear the normal pressures of being teenagers while undergoing the refugee application process. Available on the NFB Website - www.nfb.ca https://www.nfb.ca/film/everybodys_children/ |
Remember the Titans (2000)
The true story of a new African-American high school football coach in a newly integrated school in Alexandria, Va. in 1971. The Titans are struggling to get along and play as a team, divided by racial tensions, when a major player is critically injured in a car accident. |
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Fences (2016)
Fences is a 2016 American period drama film starring, produced and directed by Denzel Washington and written by August Wilson, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1985 play of the same name. Troy, an African American man who once longed to be a baseball player, misses the opportunity due to racism. As time passes, he takes out his frustration on his loved ones and ruins his son's future. |
I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. |
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Do the right thing (1989)
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione (Danny Aiello) is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito), becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise. |
42 (2013)
Major League executive Branch Rickey drafts African American Jackie Robinson as a player. Jackie has never taken too kindly to racism, but now he is amidst even greater racist hostility. |
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Black Soul
A young boy traces his roots through the stories his grandmother shares with him about the events that shaped their cultural heritage. |
UndergroundSet on the brink of the American Civil War, this series memorializes the struggle and courage involved in fleeing slavery via the Underground Railway.
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Malcom X (1992)
A tribute to the black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride. |
13th (2016)
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Americans. |
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Teaching with movies
REEL CANADA
A charitable organization that celebrates Canada through film. On their website, you'll find resources, lesson plans, movies that can be used in your classroom. https://www.reelcanada.ca/blog/bonus-films/ |
Montreal International Black Film Festival
The Montreal International Black Film Festival (MIBFF) is an innovative, bold and dynamic event aiming to stimulate the development of the independent film industry while fostering the creation of films on Black realities around the globe. THE MIBFF offers audiences a fresh look at Black cinema from around the world and seeks to give a voice to Black filmmakers who would otherwise go unheard, providing both grants and awards. |