Latest Acquisitions
The most recent film acquisitions of the BFC/A listed by title followed by filmmaker, year, and format
2012 Acquisitions
Abolição -- Sozimo Bulbul, 1988 (DVD)Adjust Your Color -- Loren Mendell, 2008 (DVD)
Après L’ocean -- Éliane de Latour, 2006 (DVD)
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Denis Mueller, 1993 (DVD)
Beat the Drum -- David Hickson, 2003 (DVD)
Borders -- Mostedfa Djadjam, 2001 (DVD)
Cadillac Records -- Darnell Martin, 2008 (DVD)
Café au Lait -- Mathieu Kassovitz, 1993 (DVD)
Dreams of Dust -- Laurent Salgues, 2006 (DVD)
Execution of Wanda Jean, The -- Liz Garbus, 2002 (DVD)
L'autre Côté de la Mer -- Dominique Cabrera, 1997 (DVD)
Life Above All -- Oliver Schmitz, 2010 (DVD)
Moolaadé -- Ousmane Sembène, 2004 (DVD)
Other World, The -- Merzak Allouache, 2001 (DVD)
Otomo -- Frieder Schlaich, 1999 (DVD)
Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School, A -- Dave Davidson, 2009 (DVD)
Placido: The Blood of the Poet -- Sergio Giral, 1986 (DVD)
Slavery by Another Name -- Samuel D. Pollard, 2012 (DVD)
Waalo Fendo -- Mohammed Soudani, 1997 (DVD)
Wonders of the African World -- Helena Appio, Nicola Colton, and Nick Godwin, 1999 (DVD)
2011 Acquisitions
Abyss Boys, The -- Jan-Hendrik Beetge, 2009 (DVD)
Aleijadinho: Passion, Glory and Torment -- Geraldo Santos Pereira, 2001 (DVD)
Alex's Wedding -- Jean-Marie Teno, 2002 (DVD)
Am I Black Enough For You -- Goran Olsson, 2009 (DVD)
Angels in the Dust -- Louise Hogarth, 2007 (DVD)
Aoki -- Ben Wang & Mike Cheng, 2009 (DVD)
Araya -- Margot Benacerraf, 1959 (DVD)
Battle for Haiti -- Dan Reed, 2011 (DVD)
Batuque -- Marie Clemence Paes, 2006 (DVD)
Bedwin Hacker -- Nadia El Fani, 2003 (DVD)
Biro -- Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, 2007 (DVD)
Black Hollywood: Blaxploitation and Advancing an Independent Black Cinema -- Howard Johnson, 1984 (DVD)
Black in Latin America series -- N/A, 2011 (DVD)
Black Magic -- Dan Klores, 2008 (DVD)
Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, The -- Goran Olsson, 2010 (DVD)
Black Rodeo -- Jeff Kanew, 1972 (DVD)
Black Soul -- Martine Chartrand, 2000 (DVD)
bonheur d'Elza, Le -- Mariette Monpierre, 2011 (DVD)
Bring Your "A" Game -- Mario Van Peebles, 2009 (DVD)
Bullet Boy -- Saul Dibb, 2004 (DVD)
Camp de Thiaroye -- Ousmane Sembene, 1988 (DVD)
cane/cain -- Jordache Ellapen, 2011 (DVD)
CB4 -- Tamra Davis, 1993 (DVD)
Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, The -- Fred Schepisi, 1978 (DVD)
Chris Ofili -- n/a, 2004 (DVD)
Cites de la plaine -- Robert Kramer, 2000 (DVD)
Conversations: Phylicia Rashad -- n/a, 2011 (DVD)
Conversations: Robert Guillaume -- n/a, 2011 (DVD)
Dancing in the Light -- Madison D. Lacy, 2007 (DVD)
Denying Brazil -- Joel Zito Araujo, 2000 (DVD)
Dialogues of the Exiled -- Raul Ruiz, 1975 (DVD)
Dreams of Obama -- Michael Kirk, 2009 (DVD)
End of Poverty? The -- Philippe Diaz, 2008 (DVD)
Fire in Babylon -- Stevan Riley, 2010 (DVD)
Free, White and 21 -- Larry Buchanan, 1963 (DVD)
Free to Dance -- Madison D. Lacy & Adam Zucker, 2001 (DVD)
Freedom Riders -- Stanley Nelson, 2011 (DVD)
Fullness of Time, The -- Cauleen Smith, 2008 (DVD)
Go, Man, Go! -- James Wong Howe, 1954 (DVD)
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench -- Damien Chazelle, 2009 (DVD)
How to Conquer America in One Night -- Dany Laferriere, 2004 (DVD)
Hurry Sundown -- Otto Preminger, 1967 (DVD)
I Passed for White -- Fred M. Wilcox, 1960 (DVD)
I Will Follow -- Ava DuVernay, 2011 (DVD)
In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies & the Birth of Black Cinema -- Brad Osborne, 2007 (DVD)
Jazz -- Ken Burns, 2000 (DVD)
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child -- Tamra Davis, 2010 (DVD)
Journey of the Lion, The -- Fritz Baumann, 1992 (DVD)
Kings of the Evening -- Andrew P. Jones, 2008 (DVD)
L'avenir est ailleurs -- Antoine-Leonard Maestrati, 2007 (DVD)
Lackawanna Blues -- George C. Wolfe, 2005 (DVD)
LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton -- Deborah Dickson, Susan Fromke and Albert Maysles, 2002 (DVD)
Last Rumba of Papa Montero, The -- Octavio Cortazar, 1992 (DVD)
Let the Church Say Amen -- David Petersen, 2003 (DVD)
Made in Jamaica -- Jerome Laperrousaz, 2006 (DVD)
Night Catches Us -- Tanya Hamilton, 2010 (DVD)
On the Verge of a Fever -- Dany Laferriere, 2004 (DVD)
Playing Away -- Horace Ove, 1987 (DVD)
Poto Mitan: Haitian Women Pillars of the Global Economy -- Renee Bergan and Mark Schuller, 2009 (DVD)
Protection -- Francois Verster, 2010 (DVD)
Pumzi -- Wanuri Kahiu, 2009 (DVD)
Roads to Memphis -- Stephen Ives, 2010 (DVD)
Rope of Sand -- William Dieterle, 1949 (DVD)
Sara Gomez: An Afro-Cuban Filmmaker -- Alessandra Muller, 2005 (DVD)
16th Man, The -- Clifford Bestall, 2010 (DVD)
Small Island -- John Alexander, 2009 (DVD)
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference Volumes 1-38 -- n/a, 2011 (DVD)
St. Louis Blues -- Dyana Gaye, 2009 (DVD)
Submarine -- Richard Ayoade, 2010 (DVD)
TGV Express -- Moussa Toure, 1997 (DVD)
Trip to the Country, A -- Jean-Marie Teno, 2000 (DVD)
Tunnel, The -- Jenna Cato Bass, 2010 (DVD)
Two Nations of Black America -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr, 1998 (DVD)
U, The -- Billy Corben, 2009 (DVD)
Viva Riva! -- Djo Tunda Wa Munga, 2010 (DVD)
When the Ground Stopped Shaking -- Jace Freeman, 2010 (DVD)
Yacoubian Building, The -- Marwan Hamed, 2006 (DVD)
Yela, the melodies of the memories -- Ibrahima Wane and Fatimata Ly Fall, 2008 (DVD)
Yinka Shonibare -- n/a, 2004 (DVD)
Zelodor, O: A Story of Capoeira -- Daren Bartlett, 2007 (DVD)
