Collection | Latest Acquisitions
The most recent film acquistions of the BFC/A listed by title followed by filmmaker, year, and format
2009 Acquisitions
100 Rifles -- Tom Gries, 1969 (DVD)
Afrique, je te plumeria -- Jean-Marie Teno, 1992 (DVD)
Afro@Digital -- Balufu Kanyinda-Bakupa, 2003 (DVD)
Ainsi Meurent Les Anges -- Moussa Sena Absa, 2001 (DVD)
Amazing Grace -- Michael Apted, 2006 (DVD)
American Gangster -- Ridley Scott, 2007 (DVD)
Angels Can't Help But Laugh -- Thomas Burns, 2006 (DVD)
Banished -- Marco Williams, 2007 (DVD)
Belonging -- Minky Schlesinger and Khetiwe Ngcobo, 2004 (DVD)
Big Score, The -- Fred Williamson, 1983 (DVD)
Bunny Chow -- John Barker, 2006 (DVD)
Carmen & Geoffrey -- Linda Atkinson and Nick Doob, 2005 (DVD)
Chef! -- Jean-Marie Teno, 1999 (DVD)
Clando -- Jean-Marie Teno, 1996 (DVD)
Dakan -- Mohamed Camara, 1997 (DVD)
DL Chronicles, The -- Quincy Lenear and Deondray Gossett, 2005 (DVD)
Doce Sillas, Las -- Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1962 (DVD)
Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution -- Noland Walker, 2009 (DVD)
Faat Kine -- Ousmane Sembene, 2000 (DVD)
Femmes aux yeux ouverts -- Anne-Laure Folly, 1994 (DVD)
Finzan -- Cheick Oumar Sissoko, 1990 (DVD)
Forgiveness -- Ian Gabriel, 2004 (DVD)
Franc, Le -- Djibril Diop Mambety, 1994 (DVD)
Greetings From Africa -- Cheryl Dunye, 1994 (DVD)
Heroi, O -- Zeze Gamboa, 2004 (DVD)
Hollow City -- Maria Joao Ganga, 2004 (DVD)
Hurricane, The -- Norman Jewison, 1999 (DVD)
I Am Cuba -- Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964 (DVD)
Janine -- Cheryl Dunye, 1990 (DVD)
L'Arbre Aux Esprits -- Cilia Sawadogo, 2002 (DVD)
Live and Become -- Radu Mihaileanu, 2005 (DVD)
Lumumba: La Mort du Prophete -- Raoul Peck, 1992 (DVD)
Malentendu Colonial, Le -- Jean-Marie Teno, 2004 (DVD)
Memorias del Subdesarrollo -- Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1968 (DVD)
Monday's Girls -- Ngozi Onwurah, 1993 (DVD)
Muerte de un Burocrata, La -- Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1966 (DVD)
Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power -- Sandra Dickson and Churchill Roberts, 2003 (DVD)
Noah's Arc: The Complete First Season -- N/A, 2005 (DVD)
Noah's Arc: The Complete Second Season -- N/A, 2006 (DVD)
Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom -- Patrik-Ian Polk, 2008 (DVD)
Notorious B.I.G.: Bigger Than Life -- Peter Spirer, 2007 (DVD)
Petite Vendeuse de Soleil, La -- Djibril Diop Mambety, 1999 (DVD)
Pieces d'Identites -- Mweze Ngangura, 1998 (DVD)
Potluck and the Passion, The -- Cheryl Dunye, 1993 (DVD)
Renaissance Village -- Gabe Chasnoff, 2008 (DVD)
Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, The -- Bill Jersey and Richard Wormser, 2002 (DVD)
She Don't Fade -- Cheryl Dunye, 1991 (DVD)
Smile Orange -- Trevor D. Rhone, 1976 (DVD)
Soul in the Hole -- Danielle Gardner, 1997 (DVD)
Space is the Place -- John Coney, 1974 (DVD)
Strange Fruit -- Joel Katz, 2002 (DVD)
Taafe Fanga -- Adam Drabo, 1997 (DVD)
Tete Dans Les Nuages, La -- Jean-Marie Teno, 1994 (DVD)
Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Darnell Martin, 2005 (DVD)
Thunderbolt -- Tunde Kelani, 2000 (DVD)
Udju Azul di Yonta -- Flora Gomes, 1991 (DVD)
Ultima Cena, La -- Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1976 (DVD)
Untitled Portrait, An -- Cheryl Dunye, 1993 (DVD)
Vanilla Sex -- Cheryl Dunye, 1992 (DVD)
War Dance -- Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, 2007 (DVD)
White Dog -- Samuel Fuller, 1982 (DVD)
Woubi Cheri -- Philip Brooks and Laurent Bocahut, 1998 (DVD)
You Have Struck a Rock! -- Deborah May, 1981 (DVD)
Zan Boko -- Gaston Kabore, 1988 (DVD)
Zora is My Name! -- Neema Barnette, 1989 (DVD)
Zora Neal Hurston: Jump at the Sun -- Sam Pollard, 2008 (DVD)
2008 Acquisitions
Absolutely Positive -- Peter Adair, 1991 (DVD)
Adanggaman -- Roger Gnaan M'Bala, 2000 (DVD)
Africa Squeaks -- Robert Clampett, 1940 (DVD)
Africa Unite: A Celebration of Bob Marley's Vision -- Stephanie Black, 2008 (DVD)
African American Lives -- Leslie D. Farrell, 2006 (DVD)
African American Lives 2 -- Graham Judd, 2008 (DVD)
African Footprint -- N/A, 2007 (DVD)
Afro-Punk -- James Spooner, 2003 (DVD)
Agressives, The -- Daniel Peddle, 2005 (DVD)
Almost Brothers -- Lucia Murat, 2004 (DVD)
American Blackout -- Ian Inaba, 2006 (DVD)
Angel Puss -- Charles M. Jones, 1944 (DVD)
Angola 3, The: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation -- Jimmy O'Halligan, 2008 (DVD)
Barravento -- Glauber Rocha, 1962 (DVD)
Beyond the Steps: The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater -- Phil Bertelsen, 2006 (DVD)
Bill T. Jones: Dancing to The Promised Land -- N/A, 2004 (DVD)
Black & White -- Boris Frumin, 1991 (VHS)
Black Gestapo, The -- Lee Frost, 1975 (DVD)
Black Godfather -- John Evans, 1974 (DVD)
Black History - The Ultimate Collection -- N/A, 2007 (DVD)
Black Six, The -- Matt Cimber, 1974 (DVD)
Black Studies, USA -- Niyi Coker, Jr., 2007 (DVD)
Blackout -- Jerry Lamothe, 2007 (DVD)
Boondocks, The: The Complete First Season -- N/A, 2005 (DVD)
Boondocks, The: The Complete Second Season -- N/A, 2008 (DVD)
Born in Flames -- Lizzie Borden, 1983 (DVD)
Brother Minister: The Assassination of Malcolm X -- Jack Baxter, 1994 (DVD)
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin -- Nancy D. Kates and Bennett Singer, 2003 (DVD)
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America -- Kevin Willmott, 2004 (DVD)
Century of Black Cinema, A -- Ted Newsom, 1997 (DVD)
Clean Pastures -- Friz Freleng, 1937 (DVD)
Coming to America -- John Landis, 1988 (DVD)
Confederate Honey -- Friz Freleng, 1940 (DVD)
Cry of Jazz, The -- Edward O. Bland, 1959 (DVD)
Cuba: An African Odyssey -- Jihan El-Tahri, 2007 (DVD)
Daratt -- Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2006 (DVD)
Deep Impact -- Mimi Leder, 1998 (DVD)
Desert Ark, The -- Mohamed Chouikh, 1997 (DVD)
Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol -- Glauber Rocha, 1964 (DVD)
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti -- Maya Deren, 1985 (DVD)
Double Dutch Jump Roping -- David Hoffman, 2002 (DVD)
Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde -- William Crain, 1976 (DVD)
Dragao da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro, O -- Glauber Rocha, 1969 (DVD)
Et Si Latif Avait Raison! (And If Latif Was Right!) -- Joseph Gaï Ramaka, 2005 (DVD)
Faraw! Mother of the Dunes -- Abdoulaye Ascofare, 1997 (DVD)
Favela Rising -- Matt Mochary and Jeff Zimbalist, 2005 (DVD)
FBI's War on Black America -- Denis Mueller and Deb Ellis, 1990 (VHS)
Films of Michael Sporn, The: Volume 1 -- Michael Sporn, 2003 (DVD)
Final Comedown -- Oscar Williams, 1972 (DVD)
500 Years Later -- Owen Alik Shahadah, 2005 (DVD)
4 Little Girls -- Spike Lee, 1997 (DVD)
Gathering of Old Men, A -- Volker Schlondorff, 1991 (DVD)
Gettin' Grown -- Aaron Greer, 2004 (DVD)
Ghosts of Cite Soleil -- Asger Leth, 2006 (DVD)
Gods Must Be Crazy, The -- Jamie Uys, 1980 (DVD)
Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears -- Friz Freleng, 1944 (DVD)
Good-Bye Momo -- Leonardo Ricagni, 2005 (DVD)
Hallelujah! -- King Vidor, 1929 (DVD)
Haramuya -- Drissa Toure, 1995 (DVD)
Head of State -- Chris Rock, 2003 (DVD)
Heavy Traffic -- Ralph Bakshi, 1973 (DVD)
Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land -- Rudolf Ising, 1931 (DVD)
Homo Sapiens 1900 -- Peter Cohen, 1998 (DVD)
Idade da Terra, A -- Glauber Rocha, 1980 (DVD)
Idiocracy -- Mike Judge, 2006 (DVD)
Isle of Pingo Pongo, The -- Tex Avery, 1938 (DVD)
Jazz Singer, The -- Alan Crosland, 1927 (DVD)
Jena 6, The -- N/A, 2008 (DVD)
Kidulthood -- Menhaj Huda, 2004 (DVD)
La saga des immigres -- N/A, 2007 (DVD)
Legacy of Torture -- Andres Alegria, 2007 (DVD)
Les Stances a Sophie -- Moshe Mizrahi, 1971 (DVD)
Little Rascals Collection, The -- N/A, 2008 (DVD)
Lucia -- Humberto Solas, 1968 (DVD)
Macunaima -- Joaquim Pedro De Andrade, 1969 (DVD)
Man in the Middle -- Guy Hamilton, 1964 (DVD)
Man Named Pearl, A -- Scott Galloway and Brent Pierson, 2006 (DVD)
Mandingo -- Richard Fleischer, 1975 (DVD)
Messenger, The -- Fred Williamson, 1986 (VHS)
My Nappy Roots: A Journey Through Black Hair-itage -- Regina Kimbell, 2004 (DVD)
N Word, The -- Todd Larkins, 2004 (DVD)
Night of Truth, The -- Fanta Regina Nacro, 2004 (DVD)
Nightjohn -- Charles Burnett, 1996 (DVD)
Omar and Pete -- Tod Lending, 2005 (DVD)
Otomo -- Frieder Schlaich, 1999 (VHS)
Price of Forgiveness, The (Le prix du pardon) -- Mansour Sora Wade, 2001 (DVD)
Prince Among Slaves -- Andrea Kalin, 2008 (DVD)
Psychological Residuals of Slavery -- N/A, 2007 (DVD)
Quilombo Country -- Leonard Abrams, 2006 (DVD)
Ragtime -- Milos Forman, 1981 (DVD)
Raisin in the Sun, A -- Kenny Leon, 2008 (DVD)
Resting Place -- John Korty, 1986 (DVD)
Shades of Love: Black Homosexuality Volume 1 - 3 -- Tressa Sanders, 2007 (DVD)
Sia, Dream of the Python -- Dani Kouyate, 2001 (DVD)
Sisters of Selma -- Jayasri Hart, 2006 (DVD)
Skid Row -- Ross Clarke and Niva Dorell, 2007 (DVD)
Slippin': Ten Years with the Bloods -- Joachim Schroeder and Tommy Sowards, 2005 (DVD)
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood -- Velma Cato, 1998 (DVD)
Song of the South -- Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson, 1946 (VHS)
Spirituals, The -- Ari Luis Palos and Eren Isabel McGinnis, 2007 (DVD)
Style Wars -- Tony Silver, 1983 (DVD)
Sunday Go to Meetin' Time -- Friz Freleng, 1936 (DVD)
T.N.T. Jackson -- Cirio Santiago, 1975 (DVD)
Take a Hard Ride -- Antonio Margheriti, 1975 (DVD)
Tasuma: The Fighter -- Daniel Kollo Sanou, 2003 (DVD)
Terra em Transe -- Glauber Rocha, 1967 (DVD)
That's My Face -- Thomas Allen Harris, 2001 (DVD)
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! -- Gordon Douglas, 1970 (DVD)
Tin Pan Alley Cats -- Robert Clampett, 1943 (DVD)
Trouble Man -- Robert Hooks, 1972 (DVD)
Tuskegee Airmen, The -- Robert Markowitz, 1995 (DVD)
U-Carmen -- Mark Dornford-May, 2005 (DVD)
Uncle Tom's Bungalow -- Tex Avery, 1937 (DVD)
We Are Together -- Paul Taylor, 2006 (DVD)
What Black Men Think -- Janks Morton, 2007 (DVD)
Which is Witch? -- Friz Freleng, 1949 (DVD)
Whoopi: Back to Broadway -- Marty Callner and Thomas Schlamme, 2005 (DVD)
Without the King -- Michael Skolnik, 2007 (DVD)
2007 Acquisitions
American Revolution 2 -- Howard Alk, 1969 (DVD)
Aristide and the Endless Revolution -- Nicolas Rossier, 2005 (DVD)
Birth of a Nation, The -- D.W. Griffith, 1915 (DVD)
Black Hair: The Korean Takeover of the Black Haircare Industry -- Aron Ranen, 2005 (DVD)
Blood Diamond -- Edward Zwick, 2006 (DVD)
Bowfinger -- Frank Oz, 1999 (DVD)
Celebrity Master Class: Diahann Carroll -- Screen Actors Guild Foundation, 2006 (DVD)
Chameleon Street -- Wendell Harris, Jr., 1988 (DVD)
Congressman Robert Smalls: A Patriot's Journey from Slavery to Capitol Hill -- Adrena Ifill, 2005 (DVD)
Conversations: Derek Luke -- Screen Actors Guild Foundation, 2006 (DVD)
Conversations: Forest Whitaker -- Screen Actors Guild Foundation, 2007 (DVD)
Conversations: Jesse L. Martin -- Screen Actors Guild Foundation, 2006 (DVD)
Conversations: S. Epatha Merkerson -- Screen Actors Guild Foundation, 2002 (DVD)
Dearfield: The Road Less Traveled -- donnie l. betts, 1995 (DVD)
Dreamgirls -- Bill Condon, 2006 (DVD)
Ezra -- Newton I. Adouka, 2007 (DVD)
Far From Heaven -- Todd Haynes, 2002 (VHS)
Far From Home -- Rachel Tsutsumi, 2005 (DVD)
God Sleeps in Rwanda -- Kimberlee Acquaro, 2005 (DVD)
How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It) -- Joe Angio, 2005 (DVD)
In My Country -- John Boorman, 2004 (DVD)
In the Absence of Peace -- Michael T. Martin, 1988 (DVD)
Last King of Scotland, The -- Kevin MacDonald, 2006 (DVD)
Legacy -- Inge Blackman, 2006 (DVD)
Malunde -- Stefanie Sycholt, 2001 (DVD)
Max and Mona -- Teddy Mattera, 2004 (DVD)
Murder of Fred Hampton, The -- Howard Alk, 1971 (DVD)
Music is My Life, Politics My Mistress: The Story of Oscar Brown, Jr. -- donnie l. betts, 2005 (DVD)
NO! -- Aishah Shahidah Simmons, 2002 (DVD)
Pursuit of Happyness, The -- Gabriele Muccino, 2006 (DVD)
Roots -- Various, 1977 (DVD)
Sisters in Law -- Kim Longinotto, 2005 (DVD)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One -- William Greaves, 1968 (DVD)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2 -- William Greaves, 2003 (DVD)
This Is Nollywood -- Franco Sacchi, 2007 (DVD)
Time for Burning, A -- Bill Jersey, 1966 (DVD)
Tsotsi -- Gavin Hood, 2005 (DVD)
Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela -- Thomas Allen Harris, 2006 (DVD)
What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Library -- Various, 2006 (DVD)
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts -- Spike Lee, 2006 (DVD)
Which Way is Up? -- Michael Schultz, 1977 (DVD)
Yesterday -- Darrell James Roodt, 2004 (DVD)
2006 Acquisitions
Adwa: An African Victory -- Haile Gerima, 1999 (VHS)
Africa Sings -- Joseph Best, 1936 (VHS)
Africans in America series -- Orlando Bagwell, 1998 (VHS)
Aimé Césaire: une voix pour l'histoire -- Euzhan Palcy, 1994 (VHS; 3 tapes)
Ainsi soit-il -- Joseph Gaï Ramaka, 1997 (DVD)
All or Nothing -- Adisa Jones, 2001 (DVD)
Badass Supermama -- Etang Inyang, 1996 (VHS)
Barbershops Uncut: East Coast -- Dabo Ché, 2004
Birmingham Black Bottom: The First All Black Cast Talkies -- Various, 1929 (DVD)
Black Girl [aka La Noire de...] -- Ousmane Sembène, 1965 (DVD)
Bopha! -- Morgan Freeman, 1993 (DVD)
Borderline -- Kenneth MacPherson, 1929 (DVD)
Borom Sarret -- Ousmane Sembène, 1962 (DVD)
Boycott -- Clark Johnson, 2001 (DVD)
Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary -- C-SPAN, 2004 (DVD)
Bus 174 -- José Padilha, 2002 (DVD)
Call for Change Series -- Various, 2005 (VHS)
Civil Rights Movement -- C-SPAN, 2004 (DVD)
Countryman -- Dickie Jobson, 1982 (DVD)
Crash -- Paul Haggis, 2004 (DVD)
Dancehall Queen -- Rick Elgood and Don Letts, 1997 (DVD)
DiversityInc: Women of Color Roundtable 2006 -- 2006 (DVD)
Greatest, The -- Tom Gries, 1977 (DVD)
Gus and Rose: Reflections of Katrina and the Big Easy -- Ted A. Irving, 2006 (DVD)
Harlem is Heaven -- Irwin Franklyn, 1932 (DVD)
Harvest: 3,000 Years -- Haile Gerima, 1975 (VHS)
Healing Passage, The: Voices From the Water -- Saundra Pearl Sharp, 2004 (VHS)
Hustle and Flow -- Craig Brewer, 2005 (DVD)
I Am Somebody -- Madeline Anderson, 1970 (DVD)
Jazz on a Summer's Day -- Bert Stern, 1960 (VHS)
Jazz Singer, The -- Alan Crosland, 1927 (VHS)
Killing Yard, The -- Euzhan Palcy, 2001 (VHS)
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Negro National Anthem -- C-SPAN, 2001 (DVD)
Mandabi -- Ousmane Sembène, 1968 (DVD)
Meeting, The -- Bill Duke, 1989 (VHS)
Memphis Civil Rights Movement -- C-SPAN, 1997 (DVD)
Movies of Color: Black Southern Cinema -- Tom Thurman, 2000 (DVD)
Once in the Life -- Laurence Fishburne, 2000 (DVD)
Origins of the Black Panther Party -- C-SPAN, 2006 (DVD)
Orfeu -- Carlos Diegues, 1999 (VHS)
Politics of the Civil Rights Movement -- C-SPAN, 1997 (DVD)
Promesse, La -- Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 1996 (VHS)
Racial Relations -- C-SPAN, 2004
Ruby Bridges -- Euzhan Palcy, 1998 (DVD)
Selma Voting Rights March Anniversary -- C-SPAN, 2000 (DVD)
Sepia Cinderella -- Arthur H. Leonard, 1947 (VHS)
Sidet: Forced Exile -- Salem Mekuria, 1991 (VHS)
Sisters in Cinema -- Yvonne Welbon, 2003 (VHS)
Social Protests and the Civil Rights Movement -- C-SPAN, 1997 (DVD)
Spirit Lost -- Neema Barnette, 1996 (DVD)
Squeeze -- Robert Patton-Spruill, 1997 (DVD)
St. Louis Blues -- Dudley Murphy, 1929 (VHS)
Symbol of the Unconquered -- Oscar Micheaux, 1920 (VHS)
Taste of Dirt, The -- Yvonne Welbon, 2002 (VHS)
Third World Cop -- Chris Browne, 1999 (DVD)
This Side of the River -- Ryan Rowe and Drew Grimes, 2006 (DVD)
Time for Justice, A -- Charles E. Guggenheim, 1994 (VHS)
Up in the Air -- Howard P. Bretherton, 1940 (DVD)
Xala -- Ousmane Sembène, 1974 (DVD)
