The Jazz Ambassadors

A City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in 1954. An Oscar-nominated short documentary from 19...

An account of the life of the brilliant jazz musician John Coltrane (1926-67),a gifted saxophonist, an extraordinarily talented thinker whose origina...

The tragic story of an American music virtuoso who found in 1970s Iran the love and acceptance he never received back home, and who was punished by hi...

In 1967, in the middle of the Cold War, Joseph Stalin's only daughter goes to the American embassy in New Delhi and asks for asylum. Svetlana leaves b...

Two physicists discover psychic abilities are real only to have their experiments at Stanford co-opted by the CIA and their research silenced by the d...

Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies - subject of the drama series A Spy Among Friends.

The film questions whether the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s effectively changed the Black community, and American society more widely, and exami...

"Bad Woman Blues - Beth Hart" celebrates the music and voice of a woman who enriches rock and blues with emotion, authenticity, and honesty.

A tribute to Charles Mingus.

In 1936, Victor H. Green (1892-1960) published The Negro Motorist Green Book, a book that was both a travel guide and a survival manual, to help Afric...

National Geographic documentary on Martin Luther King Jr. helps drive change in the United States in the face of bitter opposition, not least from opp...

A documentary on funk and P-funk and the bands and artists that made it all happen: James Brown, Sly Stone, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Maurice Wh...

In the fall of 1962, a dramatic series of events made Civil Rights history and changed a way of life. On the eve of James Meredith becoming the first...

Shots fired inside a club frequented by black Brazilians in the outskirts of Brasilia leave two men wounded. A third man arrives from the future in or...