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  Nationtime

  Nationtime

  Directed by William Greaves • 1972 • United States

  Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM, William Greaves was also the director of over one hundred documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture. NATIONTIME is a report o...

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  Nothing but a Man

  Nothing but a Man

  Directed by Michael Roemer • 1964 • United States
  Starring Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris

  Michael Roemer’s groundbreaking first feature, sensitively shot by his close collaborator Robert M. Young, is a still-resonant expression of humanity in the face of virulent prejudice. Made at the...

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  A Time for Burning

  A Time for Burning

  Directed by Barbara Connell and Bill Jersey • 1966 • United States

  With extraordinary access and unflinching frankness, this remarkable, underseen documentary offers an X-ray of the soul of a divided America working through the social shockwaves of the civil rights movement. The film chronicles ...