Black Film Center/Archive New Aquisitions

The most recent film acquistions of the BFC/A listed by title followed by filmmaker, year, and format

2008 Acquisitions

4 Little Girls -- Spike Lee, 1997 (DVD)
African American Lives -- Leslie D. Farrell, 2006 (DVD)
Almost Brothers -- Lucia Murat, 2004 (DVD)
American Blackout -- Ian Inaba, 2006 (DVD)
Black Studies, USA -- Niyi Coker, Jr., 2007 (DVD)
Born in Flames -- Lizzie Borden, 1983 (DVD)
Brother Minister: The Assassination of Malcolm X -- Jack Baxter, 1994 (DVD)
Century of Black Cinema, A -- Ted Newsom, 1997 (DVD)
Double Dutch Jump Roping -- David Hoffman, 2002 (DVD)
Et Si Latif Avait Raison! (And If Latif Was Right!) -- Joseph Gai Ramaka, 2005 (DVD)
Films of Michael Sporn, The: Volume 1 -- Michael Sporn, 2003 (DVD)
Ghosts of Cite Soleil -- Asger Leth, 2006 (DVD)
Hallelujah! -- King Vidor, 1929 (DVD)
Homo Sapiens 1900 -- Peter Cohen, 1998 (DVD)
Jazz Singer, The -- Alan Crosland, 1927 (DVD)
Legacy of Torture -- Andres Alegria, 2007 (DVD)
Messenger, The -- Fred Williamson, 1986 (VHS)
My Nappy Roots: A Journey Through Black Hair-itage -- Regina Kimbell, 2004 (DVD)
Sisters of Selma -- Jayasri Hart, 2006 (DVD)
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood -- Velma Cato, 1998 (DVD)
Style Wars -- Tony Silver, 1983 (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 Sembene, 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)