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Celebrate Black History Month with the third annual edition of this Black film list.
Letterboxd is proud to partner with Maya Cade and the Black Film Archive to present this list of 28 films to watch during the 28 days of Bla
The Black Film Archive highlights the many ways Black culture has shown up in films from the past, and tells you where you can stream them.
As Cade shared memories of watching films like “John Q” with her loved ones, she recalled with a smile how her mother would sometimes doze off in the theater yet would still want to hear her daughter’s perspective on a movie even if she herself didn’t catch much of it. For the Louisiana native, it was about being able to engage with her mom about something she loved.
“She’s going to ask me, ’OK, what were the themes?” she said. “‘What was the message? What did you get from this? What did it remind you of?’ We would have a full-bodied conversation, and that is so fundamental to me.”
When I'm acting, it's as if all the parts of myself come together. I feel whole inside when I'm working in theatre, even in rehearsals, but especially during performances. No matter how I'm feeling before —I may be out of kilter, out of sorts but during the performance, in using myself, I begin to feel whole. Also, acting has helped me know myself more. It's kept me honest.
Mary Alice
Black Film Archive
Black Film Archive celebrates the rich, abundant history of Black cinema. It is an evolving archive dedicated to making historically and culturally significant films about Black people accessible through a streaming guide with cultural context. In its current iteration, it showcases Black films made from 1915 to 1979. View the database here.
Learn more about the archive’s creator Maya Cade here.
“When we are intentional about making history accessible, we can transform our collective memory,” says founder Maya Cade.