List of African-American documentary films

This list of African American documentary films includes films that were made by African Americans, as well as films on the topic of African Americans.

Films marked with an asterisk (*) are specifically about the Civil Rights Movement.

1930s

• Marian Anderson: the Lincoln Memorial Concert * (1939)

1940s

• Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
• Henry Browne, Farmer
• The Quiet One
• Wings for This Man

1950s

• A City Decides *
• All My Babies

1960s

• Children Without
• Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther
• The Five Cities of June *
• The Jungle
• Legendary Champions
• The March *
• Nine from Little Rock *
• Take This Hammer
• A Time for Burning *

1970s

• 80 Blocks From Tiffany's
• A.k.a. Cassius Clay
• Always for Pleasure
• Black Rodeo
• Black Roots
• Goodnight Miss Ann
• Jack Johnson
• King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis *
• Malcolm X *
• The Murder of Fred Hampton
• Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist

1980s

• Adam Clayton Powell *
• Eyes on the Prize *
• Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
• Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle *
• The Spirit Moves: A History of Black Social Dance on Film, 1900–1986
• Style Wars
• Tongues Untied
• You Got to Move *

1990s

• 4 Little Girls *
• A Great Day in Harlem
• All God's Children
• All Power to the People
• Black is... Black Ain't
• Blacks and Jews
• The Church of Saint Coltrane
• Color Adjustment
• Colors Straight Up
• Freedom on My Mind *
• The Last Angel of History
• Malcolm X: Make It Plain *
• Midnight Ramble
• MPG: Motion Picture Genocide
• Red Tail Reborn
• A Time for Justice *
• VINTAGE - Families of Value

2000s

• 4CHOSEN: The Documentary
• Afro-Punk
• Banished
• Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
• The Black Candle
• The Black List (Vol. 1 and Vol. 2)
• The Blues
• Hairkutt
• Colored Frames *
• Dare Not Walk Alone *
• E Minha Cara/That's My Face
• Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
• February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four *
• Flight of the Red Tail
• Frederick Douglass and the White Negro
• From Swastika to Jim Crow
• A Girl Like Me
• Good Hair
• Hardwood
• Home of the Brave*
• Jim Brown: All-American
• LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
• Legacy
• Maafa 21
• Marcus Garvey: Look for me in the Whirlwind
• Meeting David Wilson
• Mighty Times: The Children's March *
• Mississippi Cold Case *
• My Nappy Roots: A Journey Through Black Hair-itage
• Neshoba *
• The Pact
• Revolution '67
• Rize
• Salute
• Scottsboro: An American Tragedy *
• Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech *
• Sister Wife
• Slavery and the Making of America
• Soundtrack for a Revolution *
• Street Fight
• The Sugar Babies
• Sunday Driver
• Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice
• This Is the Life
• Tradition Is a Temple
• Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela
• Why We Bang
• The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306 *

2010s

• The Barber of Birmingham *
• The Black List (Vol. 3)
• The Czar of Black Hollywood
• Dark Girls
• The Fab Five
• Freedom Riders *
• Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
• "Good Hair" and Other Dubious Distinctions
• Motherland
• No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson
• Reincarnated (2013), on Snoop Dogg's conversion to Rastafarianism
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
• Hidden Colors (2011)
• Hidden Colors 2: The Triumph of Melanin (2012)
• Hidden Colors 3: The Rules of Racism (2014)
• Hidden Colors 4: The Religion of White Supremacy (2016)