Black Lives and Stories Matter

FILMS / DOCS / TV SERIES

BBC One:

• Sitting in Limbo - Stella Corradi
• Small Axe - Steve McQueen
• I May Destroy You - Michaela Coel
• Noughts + Crosses - Julian Holmes
• Anthony - Terry McDonough
• Black and Welsh - Liana Rose Stewart

BBC Two:

• Black and British: A Forgotten History - David Olusoga
• Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson - George Amponsah and Ric Esther Bienstock
• The Unwanted: Secret Windrush Files - David Olusoga
• BBC → Black & British collection

NETFLIX:

• More titles on ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘Black British Stories’ sections on NETFLIX
• Rocks - Sarah Gavron
• Generation Revolution - Cassie Quarless, Usayd Younis
• Gone Too Far - Destiny Ekaragha
• Chewing Gum - Michaela Coel
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom - George C. Wolfe
• 13TH - Ava DuVernay
• Selma - Ava DuVernay
• When They See Us - Ava DuVernay
• The Force - Peter Nicks
• The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson - David France
• Strong Island - Yance Ford
• American Son - Kenny Leon
• Fruitvale Station - Ryan Coogler
• Dear White People - Justin Simien
• All Day and A Night - Joe Robert Cole
• Da 5 Bloods - Spike Lee
• Teach Us All - Sonia Lowman
• LA 92 - T.J. Martin, Daniel Lindsay
• Who Killed Malcom X? - Rachel Dretzin, Phil Bertelsen

Amazon Prime:

• BlacKkKlansman - Spike Lee
• Get Out - Jordan Peele
• Within Our Gates - Oscar Micheaux
• Free Angela & All Political Prisoners - Shola Lynch
• I Am Not Your Negro - Raoul Peck
• Les Miserables - Ladj Ly
• 3 ½ minutes, 10 bullets - Marc Silver
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution - Stanley Nelson Jr.
• The Central Park Five - Ken Burns
• If Beale Street Could Talk - Barry Jenkins
• The Hate U Give - George Tillman Jr.
• Moonlight - Barry Jenkins
• Clemency - Chinonye Chukwu
• Just Mercy - Destin Daniel Cretton
• Hidden Figures - Theodore Melfi
• Whose Streets? - Sabaah Folayan
• Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee

MUBI: students can access for free with a student email address

• The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 - Goran Olsson
• Hoop Dreams - Steve James
• Vitalina Varela - Pedro Costa

Criterion Channel: paywall taken down on many of these titles

• The Watermelon Woman - Cheryl Dunye
• My Brother’s Wedding - Charles Burnett
• Losing Ground - Kathleen Collins
• Down in the Delta - Maya Angelou
• Cane River - Horace Jenkins
• Daughters of the Dust - Julie Dash
• Body and Soul - Oscar Micheaux
• The Battle of Algiers - Gillo Pontecorvo
• Black Panthers - Agnes Varda
• Portrait of Jason - Shirley Clarke
• Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One - William Greaves

**YOUTUBE (paid): **

• The Interrupters - Steve James

YOUTUBE (free):

• Verna Myers’ (Head of Inclusion Strategy at Netflix) Ted Talk ‘How to Overcome our Biases? Walk Boldly Towards Them’
• Kimberle Crenshaw ‘On Intersectionality’ WoW Keynote Speech
• ‘Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap’ full episode on Netflix
• Rachel Cargle’s ‘Public Address on Revolution: Revolution Now’
• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers
• ‘How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion’ by Peggy McIntosh

Kanopy:

• Tongues Untied - Marlon Riggs
• Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise - Henry Louis Gates Jr.

PODCASTS

Informative Podcasts:

• Small Axe: The Podcast - BBC Sounds
• Have You Heard George’s Podcast? - BBC Sounds
• 1619 - New York Times
• About Race
• Seeing White
• Code Switch
• The Diversity Gap
• Intersectionality Matters!
• Pod for the Cause
• Pod Save the People
• Throughline

Radio Shows:

• Class Act by Lenny Henry - BBC Radio 4: A study on how to level the playing field for young aspiring actors from low income and BAME backgrounds
• An Ordinary Brilliance: Parting the Waters, Closing the Wounds - Patricia William
• Such Stuff: Shakespeare and Race

Creative Industries Specific Podcasts:

• Little Gold Men - Franklin Leonard and Tananarive Due on Why Hollywood Is Still So White, and What Might Change It
• Still Processing - New York Times
• Never Not Creative - What diversity can bring to the creative industry
• Lenny Henry: Raising the Bar - 100 Years of Black British Theatre and Screen
• On Writing: Barry Jenkins - ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’
• Ava DuVernay on ‘When They See Us' - The New Yorker Radio Hour
• Ryan Coogler: Director of Fruitvale Station, Creed and Black Panther - Maltin on Movies
• Spike Lee: prejudice in the film industry - Arts & Ideas

ARTICLES & REPORTS

• Hollywood Reporter: Discrimination Against Minority TV Writers "Remains Pervasive"
• LA Times: Fantasy, long one of TV’s whitest genres, may finally be ready to change
• Arts Councils Report: Equality, Diversity and the Creative Case
• The Past Decade in Black British Theatre
• Black British Theatre: 1950–1979
• 'We're here!' The black playwrights storming the West End
• Black and Asian British Theatre Taking The Stage (Chapter from ‘The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing’)
• Where Am I? Black, Asian and Minority Role Models in Performing Arts by Suzanne Gorman

ORGANISATIONS & CREATIVES TO SUPPORT

Film Educational Organisations and Services:

• Black Girl Film School
• Black Hollywood Education and Resource Centre
• Black Women Film Network
• Made in Her Image
• Simply Robotix
• Sisters in Cinema

Film Distribution & Showcases:

• ARRAY Now
• Black Film Center/Archive
• Black Public Media
• Black Radical Imagination
• Black Women Directors
• New Negress Film Society
• The Underground Museum

Film Festivals:

• African Diaspora Film Festival
• American Black Film Festival
• BlackStar Film Festival
• Black Women in Comedy Film Festival
• Black Femme Supremacy Film Fest
• Columbus Black International Film Festival
• Pan African Film + Arts Festival
• Real Sisters Film Fest
• RSF Martha’s Vineyard African American Festival
• San Antonio Black International Film Festival
• Seattle Black Film Festival
• Urbanworld Film Fest

Professional Databases:

• The JTC List / Women of Color Unite
• Free The Work

Networking:

• African American Women In Cinema
• Black Film Allegiance
• Black Film Space
• The Blackhouse
• Black TV & Film Collective
• Black Women Animate
• Browns Girls Doc Mafia
• Organization of Black Screenwriters

News:

• Blackfilm
• Shadow and Act

THEATRE

Resources:

• Black Plays Archive: BPA
• Dear Mister Shakespeare: inspired by Shakespeare's Othello
• Black Ticket Project
• Black Theatre Live
• Drama Online Black Theatre Collection
• Black British Theatre Awards
• Black Lives Matter: A Virtual Celebration of Black Theatre Artists

Playwrights:

• Danai Gurira (The Convert)
• Debbie Tucker Green (hang)
• Arinzé Kene (Misty)
• Roy Williams (Sucker Punch)
• Clint Dyer (Death of England: Delroy)
• Kwame Kwei-Armah (Statement of Regret)
• Bola Agbaje (Gone Too Far)
• Natasha Gordon (Nine Night)
• Winsome Pinnock (Leave Taking)
• Barry Reckford (Skyvers)
• Inua Ellams (Barber Shop Chronicles)

Theatre Companies:

• Talawa
• Eclipse Theatre
• Tangle Theatre Company
• Bread Theatre and Film Company (Cambridge)

**BOOKS AVAILABLE FREE ONLINE THROUGH iDISCOVER ** (specific to Cambridge students)

• Taking Up Space by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibrahim Kendi
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People to Talk About Racism by Michael Eric Dyson
• Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• White Privilege: The Myth of a Post-Racial Society by Kalwant Bhopal