In honor of Black History Month, African American filmmakers will be featured in February.
Books
The Spike Lee reader Fine Arts PN1998.3.L44 S65 2007
Daughters of the dust : the making of an African American woman’s film Fine Arts PN1997.D313343 D3 1992
Oscar Micheaux, the great and only : the life of America’s first Black filmmaker Fine Arts PN1998.3.M494 M34 2007
Why we make movies : Black filmmakers talk about the magic of cinema Fine Arts PN1995.9.N4 A43 2003
Black directors in Hollywood Fine Arts PN1995.9.N4 D66 2003
Black women film and video artists Fine Arts PN1998.2 .B57 1998
Reel Black talk : a sourcebook of 50 American filmmakers Fine Arts PN1998.2 .M66 1997
Representing : hip hop culture and the production of Black cinema Fine Arts PN1995.9.N4 W38 1998
Reel to real : race, sex, and class at the movies Fine Arts PN1995.9.S6 H66 1996
Wendell Franklin Fine Arts PN1995.9.P7 F79 1995
Black American cinema Fine Arts PN1995.9.N4 B45 1993
Black film, white money Fine Arts PN1995.9.N4 R52 1996
DVD/Videos by African American Directors
Julie Dash
Daughters of the Dust DVD PN1997 .D313343 2000
Illusions DVD PN1997 .I42
Ossie Davis
Cotton Comes to Harlem DVD PN1997 .C84 2001
Ivan Dixon
Nothing But a Man DVD PN1997 .N678 2004
Bill Duke
Cover DVD PN1997.2 .C69 2008
Cheryl Dunye
The watermelon woman DVD PN1997 .W38 2000
Carl Franklin
Devil in a Blue Dress DVD PN1997 .D4815 1
Spike Lee
Clockers/Jungle Fever DVD PN1997 .C65 2006
Do the right thing/Mo better blues DVD PN1997 .D63 2006
School Daze on order
Malcolm X DVD PN1997 .M256633 2000
4 little girls DVD F334.B69 N3 2000
Crooklyn DVD PN1997 .C86 2006
25th Hour DVD PN1997.2 .T15 2003
Bamboozled DVD PN1997 .B36 2001
When the levees broke DVD PN1997 .D63
Kasi Lemmons
Eve’s bayou DVD PN1997 .E915 2003
Oscar Micheaux
Ten minutes to live DVD PN1997 .T465 2008
Gordon Parks
Shaft on order
John Singleton
Boyz ‘n the Hood DVD PN1997 .B698 2003
Melvin Van Peebles
Sweet sweetback’s baadasssss song On Order
Denzel Washington
The great debaters DVD PN1997.2 .G74 2008