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2. Pure (XI)
Drama | Announced
For 17-year-old Celeste, senior year in her affluent Black community means following family tradition and becoming a debutante - but she longs for a different kind of coming out.
Director: Natalie Jasmine Harris | Star: Mikayla Lashae Bartholomew
3. Files of the Unexplained (2024– )
TV-14 | 30 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery
Perplexing phenomena are meticulously explored in this investigative docuseries, which uncovers the truth behind eerie encounters, bizarre disappearances, and haunting events.
Stars: Tijuana Ricks, Michael Slade, Parker MacCready, Charlotte Stephens
Votes: 819
4. Distribution Advocates Presents (2024 Podcast Series)
Talk-Show
Demystifying the world of independent film distribution with honest insider stories to better understand what's happening to the ecosystem and start to create more equitable distribution systems moving forward.
Star: Avril Z. Speaks
5.
Files of the Unexplained (2024– )
Episode:
File: Pascagoula Alien Abduction
(2024)
TV-14 | Documentary, Crime, Mystery
In 1973, a fishing trip in Pascagoula led to an unbelievable encounter that drew attention from the media and changed two men's lives forever.
Stars: Rusty Anderson, Judy Branning, John Chancellor, Jim Conroy
Votes: 146
6.
Files of the Unexplained (2024– )
Episode:
File: Mysteries of Mt. Shasta
(2024)
TV-14 | Documentary, Crime, Mystery
Steeped in legend, Mount Shasta and its rich Indigenous history have attracted spiritual seekers, cult leaders and secret societies for decades.
Stars: Jim Benemann, Leaf Hillman, Karen Leigh, Kay Love
Votes: 72
7.
Files of the Unexplained (2024– )
Episode:
File: Bizarre Blobs of Washington
(2024)
TV-14 | Documentary, Crime, Mystery
When unknown substances fell from the sky in Oakville in 1994 and caused unexplained illnesses among residents, theories about their origins emerged.
Stars: Sonja Barclift, Kathleen Belanger, Bill Dunbar, Paul Johnson
Votes: 72
8.
Files of the Unexplained (2024– )
Episode:
File: Ghosts of Myrtles Plantation
(2024)
TV-14 | Documentary, Crime, Mystery
Visitors and tour guides share their chilling accounts about the Myrtles Plantation, a hot spot for hauntings and a place with a dark, complicated past.
Stars: John Bardes, Hester Eby, Denise Kidder, Morgan Moss
Votes: 118
9.
Files of the Unexplained (2024– )
Episode:
File: Missing Yuba County Five
(2024)
TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery
In 1978, five men vanished Yuba County. Disturbing evidence fueled a series of questions: Did they get lost - or was something more sinister at play?
Stars: Brian Bernardis, Cynthia Gorney, Jack Huett Sr., Claudia Huett
Votes: 113
10.
Files of the Unexplained (2024– )
Episode:
File: Goverment's UFO Conspiracy
(2024)
TV-14 | 38 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery
Since the '70s, US military personnel have reported strange sightings and dealt with mysterious health issues but where forced to stay silent - until now.
Stars: Cheryl Bennett, John F. Burroughs, André Carson, Ryan Graves
Votes: 87
11.
Files of the Unexplained (2024– )
Episode:
File: Haunting of Lake Lanier
(2024)
TV-14 | Documentary, Crime, Mystery
With multiple deaths reported each year, Lake LAnier has sparked spooky folklore, leading locals and others to question what lies beneath the surface.
Stars: David Anderson, Bill Carson, Kyndra Rucker Cohen, Mike Dunston
Votes: 83
12.
Files of the Unexplained (2024– )
Episode:
File: Floating Feet of Salish Sea
(2024)
TV-14 | Documentary, Crime, Mystery
In recent history, a bizarre mystery has rattled beachcombers and investigators alike: Why are severed feet being found on the shores of the Salish Sea?
Stars: Michael Slade, Parker MacCready, Charlotte Stephens, Mark Stephens
Votes: 64
13. Dotty & Soul (2022)
88 min | Comedy
Hot shot entrepreneur Ethan Cox appears poised to sell his self-driving car company and make his investors filthy rich. But when his problematic Halloween costume gets tweeted, the ensuing ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Saunders | Stars: Leslie Uggams, M. Emmet Walsh, David Koechner, Bobby Naderi
Votes: 80
14. Keep This Between Us (2022)
TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary
Follows one woman's journey as she reexamines her past relationship with a trusted teacher.
Votes: 489
15. Uprooted (2022)
TV-MA | 161 min | Documentary, Crime
Follows Sherri, as she tries to find the truth behind the unsolved death of his brother Keith Warren in 1986.
Star: Renee F. Dorn
Votes: 46
17.
Uprooted (2022)
Episode:
A Life Interrupted
(2022)
TV-MA | 53 min | Documentary, Crime
In 1986, everything changes for a family in Silver Spring, MD, when their son Keith Warren, a 19-year-old Black man, is found hanging from a tree. As facts are discovered surrounding his ... See full summary »
Director: Avril Z. Speaks | Star: Renee F. Dorn
18.
Uprooted (2022)
Episode:
The Devil Is in the Details
(2022)
TV-MA | 54 min | Documentary, Crime
Details about Keith's case continue to unfold as photos from the scene mysteriously emerge, leaving the family with questions about who may have been involved in his death and why they may have been trying to cover up what really happened.
Director: Avril Z. Speaks | Star: Renee F. Dorn
19.
Uprooted (2022)
Episode:
What Justice Looks Like
(2022)
TV-MA | 54 min | Documentary, Crime
As the Warren family seeks closure in the aftermath of Keith's death, Sherri Warren picks up the mantle from her mother to find justice. She encounters more walls within the justice system ... See full summary »
Director: Avril Z. Speaks | Star: Renee F. Dorn
20.
Keep This Between Us (2022)
Episode:
Return to Little Elm
(2022)
TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary
As an adult, Cheryl reexamines an inappropriate relationship she had with her high school teacher, a phenomenon she soon realizes is nationwide. She embarks on a journey to reckon with the impact of the experience.
Directors: Amy Berg, Jenna Rosher
Votes: 30
21.
Keep This Between Us (2022)
Episode:
The Rumors Are True
(2022)
TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary
Cheryl aims to seek answers from her classmates, teachers and family to put together the missing pieces of her past. Details emerge that, despite efforts to intervene, a culture of acceptance allows grooming to continue.
Director: Jenna Rosher
Votes: 25
22.
Keep This Between Us (2022)
Episode:
Passing the Trash
(2022)
TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary
As Cheryl seeks out others who have similar trauma, it becomes evident that there is an ecosystem of toxicity and administrative failure nationwide. She meets another survivor, Heaven, ... See full summary »
Director: Jenna Rosher
Votes: 22
23.
Keep This Between Us (2022)
Episode:
The Burden
(2022)
TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary
Heaven's fight for justice reveals that coming forward is the first step in a series of battles ahead. Cheryl, Heaven and Alisson impart that sharing their truths is never easy, but with their collective voices, there is hope for change.
Director: Kristi Jacobson
Votes: 20
24. Praying the Hours (2021)
188 min | Drama, Mystery
The narrative feature "Praying the Hours" tells the journey of the Traveling Man from this life into the next as he is summoned by friends with whom he has surprising, unresolved business.
Director: Lauralee Farrer | Stars: Christopher Min, Marcia Whitehead, Tim Halligan, Karla Droege
Votes: 7
25. Black Prom (2021)
Short, Drama
A Black girl's dreams of going to the prom are disrupted when she and her boyfriend are faced with a hostile police encounter.
Director: Nijla Mumin | Stars: Iyana Halley, Kelly Jenrette, Kyle Ochs, Jacob Romero
Votes: 6
26. Being BeBe (2021)
93 min | Documentary, Biography
Captures the incredible rise of the first ever winner of RuPaul's Drag Race: the legendary BeBe Zahara Benet.
Director: Emily Branham | Stars: Nea Marshall Kudi, Emily Branham, RuPaul, Michelle Visage
Votes: 96
27. African America (2021)
TV-MA | 96 min | Drama
Upon discovering her acceptance into Julliard, Nompumelelo, a cynical South African, embezzles funds from her workplace and abandons her fiancé to live out her Broadway dream in New York ... See full summary »
Director: Muzi Mthembu | Stars: Phumi Mthembu, Anthony Goss, Thami Buti, Nij Alain
Votes: 77
29. Prom (2020)
Short, Drama
Director: Angela Harvey | Stars: Okieriete Onaodowan, Jennifer Finnigan, Shannon Melton, Zoe Renee
30. Hosea (2019)
R | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
A modern-day retelling of an ancient story through the eyes of its forgotten female character.
Director: Ryan Daniel Dobson | Stars: Camille Rowe, Avi Nash, Josh Pence, Timothy Fall
Votes: 44
31. Jinn (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
Summer is a 17-year old carefree black girl, whose world is turned upside down when her mother, a popular meteorologist named Jade Jennings, abruptly converts to Islam and becomes a ... See full summary »
Director: Nijla Mumin | Stars: Simone Missick, Zoe Renee, Hisham Tawfiq, Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Votes: 447
32. Between Two Worlds (2018)
3 min | Documentary, Short
A portrait of Barclay Hotel in downtown Los Angeles (USA).
Director: Nawaf Al Janahi
33. American Race (2017– )
Reality-TV
Docu-series that follows controversial commentator and plainspoken truth-teller Charles Barkley on a barnstorming tour to discover what Americans really think about race. Dialogue, in person and on the record.
Stars: Peter Jae, Ronnie C. Rouse, Gerald Griggs, Charles Barkley
Votes: 47
34.
American Race (2017– )
Episode:
Entertainment Still So White
(2017)
TV-MA | 41 min | Reality-TV
Charles discusses racial stereotypes with consumers and industry professionals in Los Angeles, including Korean hip-hop artist Dunbfoundead, Ice-T, Sande Alessi (a Hollywood casting director and The Upright Citizens Brigade improv troupe.
Director: Dan Partland | Star: Peter Jae
35. Dream (III) (2015)
16 min | Short, Drama
A young girl strives to rekindle her parent's dwindling romance at their desert town's annual carnival, and learns hard lessons about love in the process.
Director: Nijla Mumin | Stars: Crystal Cotton, Kobie Dozier, Kevin Hunter, Donna Simone Johnson
36. Class Picture (2014)
15 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A woman sets out to get revenge on her middle school bully, only to discover that life has its own way of getting revenge.
Director: Avril Z. Speaks | Stars: John C. Bailey, Tanya Chattman, Emily Rose Cofer, Ethan Dobler
37. Faithfully Divided (2009)
68 min | Documentary
In searching for her family legacy, Paula, a middle-aged woman southerner, learns about a graveyard promise made to a white church by her ancestors at the end of slavery in exchange for ... See full summary »
Stars: Cecil Alexander, Keith Battle, Byron Broussard, Edwin Cliburn
38. Sophisticated Romance (2007)
107 min | Romance
Director: Avril Z. Speaks | Stars: Vondell Richmond, Tracey Lee, Jeffrey Collins, Seneka Johnson
39. Defining Moments (2007)
16 min | Short, Drama
Director: Avril Z. Speaks | Stars: Terrance L. Campbell, Kimberly Geter, Autumn Reddick, Nathaniel J. Ryan
40. Sleep Keep Wake Take (2007)
Short, Drama
Issued a challenge by his believing wife, an agnostic therapist must re-write the 'Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep' bedtime prayer for his six-year-old daughter. As someone skeptical about the ... See full summary »
Director: Angela Harvey | Stars: Jared McKinley, Robyn Boyd, Jasmine Walker, James Farster
41. The Round Table (2006)
94 min | Drama
Lucky James Sanderson had it all: talent, an athletic scholarship and a lot of community support. His journey to play college basketball came with a big price. Lucky soon finds out that ... See full summary »
Directors: Paul W.L. McDaniel, Avril Z. Speaks | Stars: Allan Harris, Werner Pauliks, Michael Hogan, Judah Priest
42. Soul Connection (2001)
20 min | Short, Drama
Director: Avril Z. Speaks | Stars: Noga Ariel, Rich Chew, Michael Cuozzo, Ray Kowalski