Celebrate Black History Month with these films, shows, and documentaries!

The Proud Family: The Complete Series by Karen Malina White
Craig Before the Creek: An Original Movie by Cartoon Network
The Proud Family: The Complete Original Series
Follow the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a typical African American girl who's doing her best to navigate through the early years of teen-dom. Penny's every encounter inevitably spirals into bigger-than-life situations filled with hi-jinks, hilarity and heart. Her quest to balance her home, school and social lives are further complicated by friends like the sassy Dijonay, Penny's nemesis LaCienega Boulevardez, her loving, yet over-protective, parents and her hip-to-the-groove-granny, Suga Mama.
 
Rating: TV-G
Year: 2001
Language: 
English
Language Note: English or Spanish dialogue; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Doc McStuffins: Mobile Clinic
When toys are hurt or sick, the "Doc Mobile" will get there quick with everything needed, including on-site cuddles, to fix them good as new. Ride with Doc and her trusty team as they rescue Dress-Up Daisy from a tree. Then, race to the park in time to help a wind-up mouse get back to doing fantastic flips. Get ready to get moving with five amazing, song-filled episodes. Wherever adventure takes you, Doc's Mobile Clinic is your ticket to healthy, happy fun!
 
Rating: TV-Y
Year: 2015
Language: English, French, Spanish
Language Note: English, Spanish or French dialogue; Spanish or French subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Craig of the Creek
Craig, a new kid in town, journeys into the nearby creek to find a lost treasure, and winds up being pursued by a band of pirates who want to destroy the Creek itself.
 
Rating: Not Rated
Year: 2023
Language: English
Language Note: English or Spanish dialogue; French or Spanish subtitles.

Soul by Pete Docter
Soul
Joe Gardner is a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. A misstep takes him from New York City to The Great Before, a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities before going to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22, who has never understood the appeal of the human life. As Joe tries to show 22 what's great about life, he may discover the answers to the most important questions.
 
Rating: PG
Year: 2020
Language: English
Language Note: English or Spanish dialogue; Spanish subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); described video.
Cinderella
Although mistreated by her cruel stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella is able to attend the royal ball through the help of a fairy godmother.
 
Rating: G
Year: 1997
Language: English
Language Note: Closed-captioned.
The Lion King
Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother, and former heir to the throne, has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy, and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his.
 
Rating: PG
Year: 2019
Language: 
English, French, Spanish
Language Note: English, French or Spanish dialogue; French or Spanish subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

On the Come Up by Sanaa Lathan
Space Jam: A New Legacy by Malcolm D. Lee
On the Come Up
Brianna Jackson is a sixteen-year-old gifted rapper who attempts to take the battle rap scene by storm to lift her family and do right by the legacy of her father a local hip-hop legend whose career was cut short by gang violence. But when her first hit song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, she finds herself torn between the authenticity that got her this far and the false persona that the industry wants to impose upon her. Based on the New York Times #1 best-selling novel by Angie Thomas.
 
Rating: PG-13
Year: 2022
Language: English, French, Spanish
Language Note: English, French or Spanish dialogue; English, French or Spanish subtitles; described video.
Space Jam: A New Legacy
Basketball champion and global icon LeBron James goes on an epic adventure alongside timeless Tune Bugs Bunny with the animated/live-action event from director Malcolm D. Lee. This transformational journey is a manic mash-up of two worlds that reveals just how far some parents will go to connect with their kids. When LeBron and his young son Dom are trapped in a digital space by a rogue A.I., LeBron must get them home safe by leading Bugs, Lola Bunny, and the whole gang of notoriously undisciplined Looney Tunes to victory over the A.I.'s digitized champions on the court: a powered-up roster of professional basketball stars as never seen before. It's Tunes versus Goons in the highest-stakes challenge of his life, that will redefine LeBron's bond with his son. The ready-for-action Tunes destroy convention, supercharge their unique talents and surprise even King James by playing the game their own way.
 
Rating: PG
Year: 2021
Language: English, French, Spanish
Language Note: English, French or Spanish dialogue; French or Spanish subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); described video.
The Hate U Give
Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures from all sides of the community, Starr tries to find her voice in order to stand up for what's right.
 
Rating: PG-13
Year: 2018
Language: English, French, Spanish
Language Note: English, French or Spanish dialogue; French or Spanish subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

Remember the Titans by Denzel Washington
Love & Basketball by Gina Prince
Remember the Titans
A drama of forced high school integration in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, white football coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by African-American Herman Boone, tough, opinionated and as different from Yoast as could be. The two men overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions. A rousing celebration of how a town torn apart by resentment, friction and mistrust comes together in triumphant harmony.
 
Rating: PG
Year: 2000
Language: English
Language Note: English or French dialogue with optional French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
Love & Basketball
Sparks fly both on and off the court in this groundbreaking feature debut by writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood, who elevated the coming-of-age romance by giving honest expression to the challenges female athletes face in a world that doesn't see them as equal. Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps make for one of the most iconic screen couples of the 2000s as the basketball-obsessed next-door neighbors who find love over flirtatious pickup games, fall apart under the strain of high-pressure college hoops and families, and drift in and out of each other's lives as they pursue their twin aspirations of playing professionally. Aided by stellar supporting performances and an eclectic R&B soundtrack, Love & Basketball captures the intoxicating passions, heartbreaking setbacks, and sky-high ambitions that mark a young woman's journey to the top of her game and to lasting love.
 
Rating: PG-13
Years: 2000
Language: 
English
42
History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
 
Rating: PG-13
Year: 2013
Language: English, Spanish, French
Language Note: In English, dubbed Spanish or dubbed French, with optional subtitles in Spanish or French.

Sinners / (Digc) by Warner Home Video
Sinners
DVD or Blu-Ray
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
 
Rating: R
Year: 2025
Language: English, French, Spanish
Language Note: English, Described Video (English), French or Spanish dialogue; French or Spanish subtitles; English SDH.
The Woman King
The remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a ferocity unlike anything the world has ever seen. Inspired by true events, it follows the emotionally epic journey of General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and prepares them for battle against an enemy determined to obliterate their way of life. Some things are worth fighting for.
 
Rating: PG-13
Year: 2022
Language: English
Moonlight
A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami. Based on the play "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue" by Tarell Alvin McCraney.
 
Rating: R
Year: 2016
Language: English
Language Note: English dialogue; Spanish subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Till by Chinonye Chukwu
Sorry to Bother You
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a macabre universe.
 
Rating: R
Years: 2018
Language: English
Language Note: English dialogue; Spanish subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Black Panther
King T'Challa returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne from divisions within his own country. When two enemies conspire to destroy Wakanda, the hero known as Black Panther must join forces with C.I.A. agent Everett K. Ross and members of the Wakandan Special Forces, to prevent Wakanda from being drawn into a world war.
 
Rating: PG-13
Year: 2018
Language: English, French, Spanish
Language Note: English, French or Spanish dialogue; French or Spanish subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Till
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
 
Rating: PG-13
Year: 2022
Language: English
Language Note: English dialogue; French or Spanish subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); described video.

Harriet
Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
 
Rating: PG-13
Year: 2019
Language: English, French, Spanish
Language Note: English, French or Spanish dialogue; French or Spanish subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); described video.
If Beale Street Could Talk
A timeless love story set in early 1970s Harlem involving newly engaged nineteen-year- old Tish and her fiancé Fonny who have a beautiful future ahead. But their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Now the pair and their families must fight for justice in the name of love and the promise of the American dream.
 
Rating: R
Year: 2018
Language: English
Language Note: English dialogue with optional Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH) and optional English descriptive audio; closed-captioned in English.
Marshall
A young Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career defining cases.
 
Rating: PG-13
Year: 2017
Language: English
Language Note: English dialogue; Spanish subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); described video.

Malcolm X by Spike Lee
Selma
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
 
Rating: PG-13
Year: 2014
Language: English
Language Note: English or French dialogue; Spanish, English or French subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Loving
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
 
Rating: PG-13
Year: 2016
Language: English, French, Spanish
Language Note: English, Spanish or French dialogue; Spanish or French subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing; described video.
Malcolm X
Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.
 
Rating: PG-13
Year: 1992
Language: English
Language Note: English (Dolby 5.1) or dubbed French (Dolby stereo. surround) dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Abbott Elementary: The Complete First Season
True Detective: Season 3 (3pc) by Warner Bros
I Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck
Abbott Elementary
Follows the everyday lives of a group of dedicated teachers in the Philadelphia public school system.
 
Rating: TV-PG
Years: 2022 - 2023
Language: English
Language Note: English dialogue.
True Detective, Season 3
Season 3 of True Detective follows Detective Wayne Hays as he investigates the disappearance of two children in the Ozarks, spanning three decades and exploring the impact of the case on his life.
 
Rating: TV-MA
Year: 2019
Language: English
Language Note: Subtitles available in English (SDH), Spanish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and Finnish.
I Am Not Your Negro
Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
 
Rating: PG-13
Year: 2016
Language: English

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