Foreword / Sir John Akomfrah CBE RA

Introduction

Lime kiln club field day / T. Hayes Hunter & Edwin Middleton, USA, 1913

Within our gates / Oscar Micheaux, USA, 1920

Fieldwork footage / Zora Neale Hurston, USA, 1927-29

Hallelujah / King Vidor, USA, 1929

Borderline / Kenneth Macpherson, Switzerland, 1930

Hell-bound train / Eloyce Gist & James Gist, USA, 1930

Zouzou / Marc Allégret, France, 1934

Stormy weather / Andrew L. Stone, USA, 1943

Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. / Spencer Williams, USA, 1946

Cry, the beloved country / Zoltán Korda, UK, 1951

Africa on the Seine / Paulin Soumanou Vieyra & Mamadou Sarr, France, 1955

Black Orpheaus / Marcel Camus, France / Brazil / Italy, 1959

Integration report 1 / Madeline Anderson, USA, 1960

Nothing but a man / Michael Roemer, USA, 1964

Hunting party / Ibrahim Shaddad, Germany, 1964

Jemima & Johnny / Lionel Ngakane, UK, 1966

Black girl / Ousmane Sembène, Senegal / France, 1966

The return of an adventurer / Moustapha Alassane, Niger, 1966

The story of a three-day pass / Melvin Van Peebles, France, 1967

Cabascabo / Oumarou Ganda, Niger / France, 1968

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm / William Greaves, USA, 1968

The woman with the knife / Timité Bassori, Ivory Coast, 1969

Meeting the man : James Baldwin in Paris / Terence Dixon, France / UK, 1971

Bushman / David Schickele, USA, 1971

Shaft / Gordon Parks, USA, 1971

Buck and the preacher / Sidney Poitier, USA, 1972

The invisible people / Madubuko Diakité, Sweden, 1972

Sambizanga / Sarah Maldoror, Angola, 1972

My contribution / Sara Gómez, Cuba, 1972

The harder they come / Perry Henzell, Jamaica, 1972

Soul in the eye / Zózimo Bulbul, Brazil, 1973

Touki Bouki / Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal, 1973

Ganja & Hess / Bill Gunn, USA, 1973

Space is the place / John Coney, USA, 1974

Pressure / Horace Ové, UK, 1975

Muna Moto / Dikongué-Pipa, Cameroon, 1975

Wan Pipel / Pim De La Parra, Suriname / The Netherlands, 1976

Shaihu Umar / Adamu Halilu, Nigeria, 1976

Coutdown at Kusini / Ossie Davis, USA / Nigeria, 1976

Black goddess / Ola Balogun, Brazil / Nigeria, 1978

The wiz / Sidney Lumet, USA, 1978

West Indies : the fugitive slaves of liberty / Med Hondo, Mauritania / Algeria / France, 1979

Maluala / Sergio Giral, Cuba, 1979

Love brewed... in the African pot / Kwaw Ansah, Ghana, 1980

Burning an illusion / Menelik Shabazz, UK, 1981

A different image / Alile Sharon Larkin, USA, 1982

God's gift / Gaston J-M Kaboré, Burkina Faso, 1982

Losing ground / Kathleen Collins, USA, 1982

Cane river / Horace B. Jenkins, USA, 1982

Sugar Cane Alley / Euzhan Palcy, France / Martinique, 1983

Bitter Cane / Ben Dupuy & Kim Ives, Haiti, 1983

The black and the green / St. Clair Bourne, USA, 1983

Amok! / Souheil Ben-Barka, Morocco / Guinea, 1983

Yam Daabo / Idrissa Ouédraogo, Burkina Faso, 1986

Handsworth Songs / John Akomfrah, UK, 1986

The old sorceress and the valet / Julius-Amédée Laou, France, 1987

Hollywood shuffle / Robert Townsend, USA, 1987

Yeelen / Souleymane Cissé, Mali, 1987

Mortu Nega / Flora Gomes, Guinea-Bissau, 1988

Dancing in the dust / Henri Duparc, Ivory Coast, 1989

Tongues united / Marlon Riggs, USA, 1989

Lumumba : death of a prophet / Raoul Peck, Democratic Republic of Congo, 1990

To sleep with anger / Charles Burnett, USA, 1990

Daughters of the dust / Julie Dash, USA, 1991

Boyz n the hood / John Singleton, USA, 1991

Living in bondage parts 1 & 2 / Chris Obi Rapu & Christian Onu, Nigeria, 1992/3

Malcom X / Spike Lee, USA, 1992

Sankofa / Haile Gerima, USA, 1993

Frantz Fanon : Black skin, white mask / Isaac Julien, UK, 1995

Welcome II the terrordome / Ngozi Onwurah, UK, 1995

Rude / Clement Virgo, Canada, 1995

The watermelon woman / Cheryl Dunye, USA, 1996

Set it off / F. Gary Gray, USA, 1996

Mossane / Safi Faye, Senegal, 1996

Kirikou and the sorceress / Michel Ocelot, France, 1998

Compensation / Zeinabu irene Davis, USA, 1999

Bye bye Africa / Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chad, 1999

The bloodettes / Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Cameroon, 2005

Madea goes to jail / Tyler Perry, USA, 2009

Who killed Captain Alex? / Nabwana I.G.G., Uganda, 2010

The diaspora suite / Ephraim Asili, USA, 2011-17

Belle / Amma Asante, UK, 2013

Strolling / Cecile Emeke, UK, 2014-16

Selma / Ava DuVernay, USA, 2014

Timbuktu / Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritania, 2014

Moonlight / Barry Jenkins, USA, 2016

Get out / Jordan Peele, USA, 2017

I am not a witch / Rungano Nyoni, Zambia, 2017

Black Panther / Ryan Coogler, USA, 2018

Chez Jolie Coiffure / Rosine Mbakam, Belgium / Cameroon, 2018

Rafiki / Wanuri Kahiu, Kenya, 2018

Black mother / Khalik Allah, Jamaica / USA, 2018

This is not a burial, it's a resurrection / Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Lesotho / South Africa / Italy, 2019

Faya Dayi / Jessica Beshir, Ethiopia / USA / Qatar, 2021

Neptune frost / Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman, Rwanda / USA, 2021

Cette Maison / Miryam Charles, Canada, 2022

Rewind & play / Alain Gomis, France / Germany, 2022

Saint Omer / Alice Diop, France, 2022

Dahomey / Mati Diop, France / Senegal / Benin, 2024

Blitz / Steve McQueen, UK, 2024.