We Want the Funk!

Robert Daniels

Director

Attica

Odie Henderson

Director

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

Nick Allen

Director

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

Odie Henderson

Director

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

Jim Emerson

Directed by

Black Writers Week

What the 2025 Federal Arts Cuts Mean for Documentary Filmmaking

June 17, 2026

Festivals & Awards

American Black Film Festival 2022 Begins In-Person Today, June 15th, Through June 19th and Virtually June 20th Through June 30th

June 15, 2022

Festivals & Awards

TIFF 2021: A Torontonian’s Take on a Tumultuous TIFF

September 20, 2021

Festivals & Awards

TIFF 2021: The Rescue, Attica, Hold Your Fire

September 13, 2021

Festivals & Awards

TIFF 2021 Preview: 20 Films We Can’t Wait to See

September 7, 2021

Chaz's Journal

Upholding Black Voices: An Annotated Table of Contents

June 11, 2020

Interviews

Art Makes You Evolve: Stanley Nelson on Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, Opening Friday, October 4th, at Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center

September 28, 2019

Festivals & Awards

Sundance 2019 Announces Competition, Premiere, Midnight Titles and More

November 28, 2018

Festivals & Awards

Steve James Named 2018 Guggenheim Honoree by American Film Institute

June 12, 2018

TV/Streaming

PBS Press Tour Spotlights Little Women

January 19, 2018

Festivals & Awards

“Get Out,” “Girls Trip” and “Marshall” Lead 49th NAACP Image Award Nominees

November 21, 2017

Festivals & Awards

2017 Black Harvest Film Festival Preview

August 1, 2017

Festivals & Awards

2017 Sundance Film Festival Preview

January 18, 2017

Festivals & Awards

Sundance 2017 Announces Premieres, Midnight Films and More

December 5, 2016

Festivals & Awards

“Life Itself” Wins Emmy

September 20, 2016

Festivals & Awards

Stanley Nelson to Receive Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award

July 29, 2016

Features

“The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution” Premieres on PBS Tonight

February 15, 2016

Interviews

The RogerEbert.com Interviews of 2015

December 29, 2015

Interviews

Hip-Hop Attitude: Stanley Nelson on “Vanguard of the Revolution”

August 31, 2015

Festivals & Awards

Hear Their Voices: The 2015 Black Harvest Film Festival

August 5, 2015

Festivals & Awards

AFI Docs 2015: Table of Contents

July 2, 2015

Festivals & Awards

AFI Docs 2015: Stanley Nelson, “Prophet’s Prey,” “Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation”

June 20, 2015

Festivals & Awards

AFI Docs 2015: An Introduction

June 11, 2015

Features

Kickstarter Campaign: “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution”

April 29, 2015

Features

Thumbnails 4/24/15

April 23, 2015

Features

Netflix’s “Mitt” Leads Wave of Sundance Films From Park City to Your Home

January 29, 2014

Scanners

The Double-Best of the Year

December 14, 2012