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People and events in Black History there should be movies about?

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Sundiata Keita, the king and founder of Malian empire. The story of how he went from poor, exiled son to king and founder of one of West Africa's richest kingdoms makes for a good hero's journey type story. Some people already felt like The Lion King was similar to his story, but Disney claims they didn't base it on him.

Amanirenas, the Queen of Kush, who defeated the Roman invaders.

The Warrior Queen Amina of Zaria.

Pharaohs Piye and Taharqa, the Nubian kings of Egypt.
 

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Though I don't particularly care for their attitudes towards ADOS, I'd love to see the Toussaint L'ouverture movie that Danny Glover wanted to make.
Chadwick would have kicked ass as the General.

Vivian Malone, first black student to graduate from the University of Alabama

Charlayne Hunter Gault, first black student to graduate from the University of Georgia

Marie LaVeau, grand voodooienne of NOLA

Homer Plessy of Plessy v Ferguson (he could pass for white so...who could play him?! That would be the ONE time I'd excuse a white man for taking a role of a black person because Homer was only 1/8th African)

Angela Davis

Oprah Winfrey...they probably won't do it until she is gone.

Butterfly McQueen and Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind)

Ida B. Wells

The first football games between black colleges

The founding of AKA (DST already has an unauthorized documentary they forbid members from viewing, owning or promoting)

Prince Hall, first black freemason in the USA

Shirley Chisolm

Duke Ellington life story

Rick James and Teena Marie's life story at the same time...can't really have one without the other for context

Sade's life story (her childhood, rise to fame)

Maynard Jackson, Dutch Morial, Harold Washington, Marion Berry, first black mayors of major cities in the 1970s-1980s

Black Mafia Family (sorry but y'all watched New Jack City, might as well)

Cicely Tyson life story (Miles Davis left her for his wife Betty and came back!)

Betty Davis (Janelle Monae would KILL it)

The jazz scene in New Orleans during Jelly Roll Morton era 1930s

The slave revolt in New Orleans in the 1800s

Rosette Rochon (her parents/family and her rise to infamy as the riches woman of color in the USA in the early 1800s and how she earned her coint)

what’s up with this? Is it on YouTube?
 

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Mansa Musa , although Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler are supposed to be making a film.
 

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Robert Johnson story (Blues artist)
Yassssss! I got his CD compilation in the mid-90s and still love it.

I’d like to see an anthology of Arthur Mitchell’s recorded performances: at New York City Ballet, and his own choreography and dancing at Dance Theatre of Harlem.

Joseph Noil would be a fascinating person to do a historical piece on:

Forgotten hero: N.S. man who served in U.S. Civil War honoured in D.C.

And I’d like to see Patrice Lumumba get a Hollywood big screen biopic, though I liked the French film by Raoul Peck.
 
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I've always wanted a movie about Black Wall Street and I agree with whoever posted earlier about more movies about Black inventors. We are such a dope, creative, resilient people; I love us.
 

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Stagecoach Mary needs a story. She was a badass but her story is so much more than that, it would make for a great movie. I would love to see stories about black cowboys/ black people in the west during this time in general.


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Daniel Hale Williams & his female protege Myra Logan. They were the pioneers of open heart surgery.

African American life in the Midwest.

Early Black politicians such as Shirley Chisholm, Richard Hatcher, and Carl Stokes.
 

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people should know more about the era of reconstruction. it's downplayed as "40 acres and a mule," but that time was a big deal. the largest event of land redistribution to black people and black people made incredible strides in achieving public office.

however, the backlash was soooo violent. it setsthe stage for the types of policies and racism we experience today. jim crow laws come out of this moment, the klan comes out of this moment, lincoln was giving reparations to former slave owners over freed slaves. it's just a terribly enlightening moment in history and i wish more people knew about it.
Movies that have black ppl happy and not mad
 

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  • Bass Reeves
  • Sam Cooke ( a movie about a certain group of people exploiting black entertainers)
  • The War on Drugs
  • How the police started as slave catchers
  • Convict Leasing
  • Rampart Scandal
 
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many ideas-
- stories about early black hollywood like the lady from gone with the wind
- a roots like netflix or streaming show that starts in africa, goes through slavery, jim crow, etc to the present day
-a show like girls about black women but not insecure
- a mad men like show that focuses on the black workers like dawn and the elevator guy. whites will naturally be the background antagonists.
-shows about black superhereos navigating having powers in a white world. basically watchmen hbo meets fst color without the white saviour at the end
 

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Mansa musa - Id like that to be a Sic fi based to historical events.

Dapper Dan movie showing how he navigated crack era Harlem and made his money from Entertainers and drug dealers.

Ann Lowe - The lady who made Jackie O and all the socialites dresses back then. It’s a interesting story. She needs more recognition. She’s a hidden figure.

Louis Farrakhan bio pic

A movie about the Hati slave revolts

Movie based on the civil rights movement but showing why black Women started to move to feminism because black rights really meant black men rights.

A Staxs récords movie - They barely get recognized.

A movie about the black Woodstock

A movie about the Beatles British Invasion hype and how black people really ain’t care because we had Motown.
Basically a film poking fun at media hyping white mediocrity based on true events.

A movie about the LGBTQ movement in the Harlem Renascence.
 
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Slaves turned Congressmen like Robert Smalls or Josiah Walls
Reconstruction era
Alice Walker
HBCUs and how they came about
Key figures during the Revolution, such as Crispus Attucks and Phyllis Wheatley
Historical/Action film about black spies through history
Black sailors
A true, detailed account about Juneteenth
 

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[QUOTE="ICantDeal_, post: 64017383, member: 14630]

African American life in the Midwest.[/QUOTE]

this would be dope. It’s more than Chicago and Detroit.
 

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I would like a movie about the Black lawyer who worked with Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker Motley. She was also in the NY senate and she even represented MLK jr.

Also Eunice Carter, who was the first Black woman to earn a law degree in NY and served in the pan African congress and UN.
 

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The First Negro Classical Ballet Company, est. 1946.

The black woman who acted as a Union spy, often called Mary Bowser but that was actually the name of a white woman in the house she was a slave in. Her real name was Mary Jane Richards or Mary Jane Denman.
 

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Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution.

The Reconstruction Era
Gullah people
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas(a general during the French Revolution)
Black Cowboys past/present
The black Mozart Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
I would like to see a film on black opera singers.
ADOS Folklore
 

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Have you watched Ken Burns ‘Jazz’? It is

E V E R Y T H I N G!!!!!!!

I watch it every fall. It’s almost time for me to get into it.
 

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Film adaptation of the videogame Papa y Yo
Harlem Renaissance and Cotton Club and Langston Hughes (Black people were so damn glamorous!)
Sundiata Keita
The Black Panther Party
Ben Carson (politics aside he was an amazing surgeon)
The Pact (4 or 5 Black men made a promise to become medical doctors and did that!)
Miniseries of Our Kind Of People (a story about the BGLOs, masons, HBCUs would be amazing)
Black truckers
Black people and the class struggle
 

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1. Alvin Ailey
2. How black teachers integrated the school system

y’all are awesome in here with these suggestions. I’m gonna b googling a lot if these. Y’all be blessed

In regards to Number two, Wasn't there a movie starring Taraji P. Henson that came out about that?
 

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Film adaptation of the videogame Papa y Yo
Harlem Renaissance and Cotton Club and Langston Hughes (Black people were so damn glamorous!)
Sundiata Keita
The Black Panther Party
Ben Carson (politics aside he was an amazing surgeon)
The Pact (4 or 5 Black men made a promise to become medical doctors and did that!)
Miniseries of Our Kind Of People (a story about the BGLOs, masons, HBCUs would be amazing)
Black truckers
Black people and the class struggle

Why a film adaptation of the videogame Papo y Yo?
 

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Robert Sengstacke Abbott
Bayard Rustin
Claudette Colvin
Ella Baker
Annie Lee Cooper
Bessie Coleman
Dorothy Height
Ethel Waters
Alvin Ailey
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gordon Parks
Maria P. Williams
 
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WE will have to make the movies: raise money, get screenwriters and cinematographers, and get to streaming. Repeat: WE must do it.
 

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Black Wall Street- The story isn’t told enough. The fact that the neighborhood had black doctors, a black theater, a black hospital, black schools, and black banks are enough to make a movie or better yet a series about it.
 

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