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Call it Barbershop, unscripted. This looks good. I’d like to check it out!  Titled, simply, The Fade, the feature-length documentary is described as an intimate portrait of four black barbers from different parts of the world (Ghana, Jamaica, the USA, and the UK), followed over the course of seven days.  That should be enough to make you [...]

Continue Reading Preview Feature Doc ‘The Fade’ (3 Continents, 4 Barbers, 7 Days, 1 Cut… Not Just Any Cut)

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Here’s a preview of the upcoming BET documentary on President Barack Obama’s quest to become a two-termer, titled Second Coming? Will Black America Decide 2012? Sounds,,, biblically epic! The pressure! And if he does win, around this time next year, expect questions like, “what has Obama done for black America” will be on many mouths [...]

Continue Reading Watch Preview Of 2-Part BET News Doc ‘Second Coming? Will Black America Decide 2012?’

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A trailer has surfaced for the Swing-era feature documentary The Savoy King: Chick Webb The Music That Changed America, which screens at the New York Film Festival starting this month. Last month we posted some clips from the upcoming the the New Heritage Theatre Group co-production, directed/produced by Jeff Kaufman and edited by Jamal El-Amin. [...]

Continue Reading Trailer: NYFF ’12 Screening Doc ‘The Savoy King: Chick Webb & The Music That Changed America’

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An official selection of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and the 2012 Oscar-nominated short film The Barber of Birmingham, is now streaming in its entirety on the PBS site for a limited time. The 21-minute inspiring doc follows the proud and humble 85-year-old civil rights activist and World War II veteran James Armstrong, a barber [...]

Continue Reading Watch Now: PBS POV Short Cuts Doc ‘The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Solider of the Civil Rights Movement’

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Finally a full trailer for a doc we’ve been following - Usain Bolt: The Movie; a 2-part, 2-hour long documentary (first half is called The Fastest Man Alive, the second, as of our last post, will be called The Legend) that centers on the track phenom whose name is in the title. As noted in a previous post, [...]

Continue Reading Trailer For Doc ‘Usain Bolt: The Fastest Man Alive’ Surfaces

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Created by director/producer Angela Tucker, we featured season 1 of this series last year; fans will be pleased to know that season 2 premiered this morning, and episode 1 is embedded below. But first… Black Public Media is thrilled to announce the launch of the second season of Black Folk Don’t, a satirical, documentary web [...]

Continue Reading Watch Season2/Episode 1 For Doc Series ‘Black Folk Don’t’ (‘Swim’)

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I’ve been missing out not knowing much about the work of these two tremendous artists, icons I shall say, of what we regard today as modern dance. Married since 1955 not long after they met after working together in Harold Arlen’s House of Flowers, Geoffrey Holder and Carmen De Lavallade’s work and personal lives are [...]

Continue Reading Netflix Picks: Doc On ‘Carmen & Geoffrey’

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I’m talking about THE ONE AND ONLY Jimi Hendrix and not Andre 3000 trying to pretend to be Hendrix. I mean seriously, can anyone even come close to the real thing? Legacy and Sony Music will release two films on Hendrix, on Blu-ray DVD, on July 10th - the legendary concert film Jimi Plays Berkeley, and the documentary Jimi Hendrix: [...]

Continue Reading Two Jimmy Hendrix Films (A Doc & A Concert Movie) Coming Out On Blu-Ray Next Month

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Regina King will star and co-direct/produce the documentary The Story of A Village, alonside L.A. writer/director/journalist Dwayne Johnson-Cochran (not to be confused by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson). In this March interview, King revealed details about the doc, which follows Tiffany Persons, who traced King’s maternal DNA roots back to Sierra Leone, as  Persons goes to [...]

Continue Reading Regina King Co-Directs Doc ‘The Story of A Village’ About Sierra Leone Village School

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Janet Jackson will executive produce Truth, a documentary about transgender people that aims to “stop the hate and find understanding.” Truth, to be directed by Robert Jason, is described as “a journey through the lives of trans- and nongendered people around the world and their epic struggle for equality.” In a released statement, Jackson told [...]

Continue Reading Janet Jackson To Exec-Produce Transgender Doc Titled ‘Truth’

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