Documentaries to Watch for Juneteenth: Top 15 Must-Sees
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Documentaries Releasing in 2024
Documentaries Already Released in 2024
The Space Race
Documentary, Juneteenth
Guion Bluford, Ed Dwight Jr., Charles Bolden
Lisa Cortés
February 13, 2024
Uncover the little-known stories of the first Black pilots, engineers and scientists seeking to break the bonds of social injustice to reach for the stars, including Guion Bluford, Ed Dwight and Charles Bolden among many others.
Our favorites from 2023
South to Black Power
Documentary, Juneteenth
Charles M. Blow
Sam Pollard
November 28, 2023
In his provocative 2021 book, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, New York Times opinion columnist Charles M. Blow calls for a “reverse Great Migration” of African Americans from the North back to the South to upend today’s political power structures while reclaiming the land and culture they left behind. South to Black Power does more than illustrate Blow’s enlightening ideas; we journey through Blow’s personal story, from his childhood in Louisiana to his role as father to young adult children in New York City, showing us the hard-won truths behind his vision for the future.
Our favorites from 2022
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Documentary, Juneteenth
Billy Dee Williams, Charles Burnett, Glynn Turman, Harry Belafonte, Laurence Fishburne, Margaret Avery, Samuel L. Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Zendaya, Elvis Mitchell
Elvis Mitchell
Elvis Mitchell
November 11, 2022
A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new superstars to the craft of rising auteurs.