Africana Studies: Film & Other Media
Links to Resources about Film and Sound for Africana Studies
Locating Africana, Latin American, & Caribbean Videos
Provides information on sources for purchasing or renting DVDs and videos for the study of the African diaspora, Latin America and the Caribbean. (Binghamton University Libraries)
African Diaspora Film Festival
A website dedicated to this film festival held annually in New York, NY. Includes descriptions of films presented, as well as an archive of past films. Could be a good source to learn of important films in the African Diaspora cinema. (African Diaspora Film Festival)
American Black Journal
Numerous episodes (1968-2000)of this Detroit Public Television program, formerly known as Colored People's Time, have been digitized. Focusing on issues relating to African American life and experiences in Detroit, the show took on a number of differernt formats including interviews, round-table discussions, on-location investigations, and performances. Notable guests include James Brown, George H. W. Bush, Stokely Carmichael, Bill Clinton, Ossie Davis, Louis Farrakhan, Nikki Giovanni, Lena Horne, Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, Nelson Mandela, Wynton Marsalis, Sun Ra, Cornell West, Stevie Wonder, among many others. (Michigan State University and Detroit Public Television)
Archival Film of African Americans in Oklahoma
Shows brief clips from archival film from the 1920s documenting various aspects of life for Oklahoma’s black communities just years after the 1921 Tulsa riot. (American Heritage)
Art and Life in Africa Project
A website with streaming video from Ghana and Burkina Faso, streaming music from Burkina Faso, photographs and several links to essays about African art. (University of Iowa)
BBC Documentary Archive
You can download and stream audio and video files related to BBC stories dealing with Latin America, the Caribbean, and the African Diaspora. In English. (BBC)
Booker T. Washington: Earliest Voices
Digitized recording of a speech Washington made in 1904 on race relations in the United States. Transcript of speech is also available. The website includes a few images of Washington, as well as a very brief biography. (Earliest Voices)
Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project
This website includes video, audio, and transcripts making up part of Columbia University's Oral History project. Several of the interviews are conducted with major figures from the anti-apartheid movement, including Desmond Tutu, Omar Badsha, Fikile Bam, Geoffrey Budlender, Arthur Chaskalson, John Dugard, Dudley Horner, Alan J. Pifer, Mamphela Ramphele, and Francis Wilson. (Columbia University Libraries)
Digital Collection of East African Recordings
An impressive collection of digitized recordings of Ugandan and Kenyan music drawn from the collection of Vanderbilt University ethnomusicologist Greg Barz. Users can search for recordings or browse by Artist, Region, District, Language, Ethnic Group, or Musical Instrument. Songs were recorded in the field and are available for streaming using Real Player. (Vanderbilt University)
Documentaries on the Civil Rights Movement
A bibliography of documentary titles on the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. (University of Maryland College Park)
Open Vault WGBH
The Boston-based PBS television station has opened its archives to the public. This site provides digitized excerpts of several programs, including Say Brother (now Basic Black), one of the most important public television shows about African American life. (WGBH)
Pan African Film & Arts Festival
Based in Los Angeles, CA. Provides information about current and past festivals. Can view trailers for many of the films that are shown. The festival also tours to other cities, such as Atlanta, GA and Accra, Ghana. (Pan African Film & Arts Festival)
Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
A series of audio interviews with former slaves that have been digitized. Includes some transcripts of the interviews. Some of the audio quality is poor. (Library of Congress)