The event, spearheaded by local film curators Maggie Hennefeld, left, and Michelle Baroody, is a series of 13 titles from four continents selected from the premier repertory festival hosted in Bologna ...

How a Twitter feed about often forgotten classics of Black film — from silent pictures to the age of blaxploitation — became a virtual vault dedicated to the preservation of a rich cinematic legacy.

Huge questions loom about the status of an archive of thousands of films that dates back to 1927. During the Taliban’s rule of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, women and girls were shut out of public ...

Those who want to know who wrote Cooley High or where Shaft In Africa was filmed, can now do so through the Black Film Archive, an online database of Black films. “I have always leaned on Black cinema ...

In 2020, a series of insurrections reverberated out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, following the murder of George Floyd. The uprisings enlivened many communities facing the harsh grips of a global ...

Rare documentaries, newsreels, commercials and more are now available for viewing with English subtitles. TEL AVIV (JTA) – For years, only those with special permission could visit the ...

Birthed from a Twitter thread, which was itself birthed from the much-ness of being Black during a pandemic and another round of Black Rights protests, writer Maya Cade’s Black Film Archive is now ...

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Maya Cade, who saw how hard it is to access movies by Black directors — so she created the Black Film Archive, a collection of nearly 250 films spanning seven decades.