Documentaries

The film that explores the role that district attorneys play in the mass incarceration epidemic, debuts on Monday, Nov. 7.

Ava DuVernay continues to prove why she is one of the busiest women in Hollywood these days, as details of her next project emerge. The filmmaker’s documentary project The 13th is set to be the opening night film of the New York Film Festival. Ava DuVernay apparently loves to spoil her audience and fans because […]

It's been a year and a half since the world lost an icon with the passing of Dr. Maya Angelou, but her voice lives on.

Black History Month may fall on the shortest month of the year, but network and cable television stations have jumped on board to celebrate our…

Young Jeezy’s long awaited new album TM103: Hustlerz Ambition will be in stores tomorrow. In advance of that music Jeezy has released the first forty minutes of his documentary, A Hustlerz Ambition. Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson the movie takes viewers behind the scenes with  Young Jeezy while he tours the world. The doc includes […]

50 Cent‘s VH1 documentary, The Origin Of Me, may turn out to be one of the most fascinating television programs of 2011 judging from these clips.  On the show, 50 traces his heritage back to South Carolina and speaks with his distant relatives and the descendants of the slave owners who owned his family.

A rare and candid TV interview with Martin Luther King, Jr. – unseen in 40 years – is the centerpiece of this timely tribute, featuring exclusive interviews with such notables as Jesse Jackson, Rosa Parks and Colin Powell that provide fresh insight into the life and personality of the late civil rights leader. “When I […]