Film:

• Bailey, Cameron
• Brand, Dionne
• Browne, Christene
• Duke, Alison
• Fraser, Fil
• Hamilton, Sylvia
• Jacob, Selwyn
• Jarvis, Michael
• McTair, Roger
• Preito, Claire
• Sutherland, Sudz
• Sweeny, Sylvia
• Virgo, Clement
• Williams, Stephen

• A Deathly Silence (The Segun Farquarson Story). 2003. (60 min.) Alison Duke. Documentary about murder of Segun Farquarson in Toronto, and Black crime in Canada)
• A History Buried: the Duval Cumings Family. 199X (documentary on African-Canadians in the Collingwood area of Ontario)
• All Eyes on Africa.  1993 (60 min.Clem Marshall/Black Secretariat: Provides positive images of African art and culture with particular emphasis on the sculpture, weaving and music.)
• Be a Good Boy Now. 1977 (documentary: Jamaicans in Canada)
• Big and the Blues. 1981 (25 minutes, National Film Board of Canada: Profiles jazz trombonist Clarence Horatius Miller who lives in Edmonton.)
• Black, Bold and  Beautiful: Black Women's Hair. 1998. (42 minutes NFB: Afros, braids or corn-rows, hairstyles have always carried a social message, of conformity or rebellion, pride and identity. Black women discuss the issues of hair styles and their own images of beauty and self.)
• Black Mother, Black Daughter 1989 (28 minutes: documentary, NFB: Recounts the significant role women have played in developing and preserving a sense of pride and identity among Nova Scotia's black community.)
• Black On Screen, Images of Black Canadians,  National Film Board of Canada, Studio D, 1992.
• Breaking the Ice: the Story of Mary Ann Shadd. 1997(30 minutes: documentary by Sylvia Sweeny: The American abolitionist and educator spent ten year in Windsor. Her views on integrated schools were opposed by Henry Bibb, local black leader and newspaper editor, who believed in separate institutions. She published her own paper and set up a school, before returning to the United States in the 1860s'.)
• Bronwen and Yaffa: Moving Towards Tolerance. 1996 (27 min. NFB: Bronwen, whose father is black and mother white, and Yaffa, whose parents are Jewish, are organizing concerts to raise money for Eastcoast Against Racism. Scott, a former Klu Klux Klan member, speaks of his experiences at one of their concerts.)
• Captain of Souls. Director Fern Levitt. (Film about Rev. William White, WWI Chaplain), 1999.
• Carnival in Canada.  1982 (56 min. University of Western Ontario: Describes the cultural significance of Caribana:  annual festival of music and dance for the West Indian community of Toronto.)
• Children are not the Problem. 1991 (30 min. Congress of Black Women: Daycare workers, teachers, and parents describe the impact of racist behaviour on young children and the need to develop educational programs that recognize Canada's multicultural community.)
• Coconut/Cane and Cutlass. 1994 (30 min. Michelle Mohabeer: A poetic rumination on exile, displacement and national identity from the perspective of an Indo-Caribbean lesbian who migrated to Canada twenty years ago.)
• Crisis at Sir George. 1999 (47 min. Connections Prod: Reviews events at Sir George Williams University, now Concordia, that led to the 1969 protest by black students and the occupation and destruction of the university's computer centre.)
• Dites-le! Etre Jeunes et Noirs en Nouvelle Ecosse, 1994. NFB.
• Esther, Baby and Me. 2000 (21 min. Louis Taylor: Louis Taylor's autobiographical film about his reaction to hearing his partner is pregnant, and his experiences during the early stages of fatherhood. Takes on issues of race, gender and relationships.)
• Fields of Endless Day (59 minutes: documentary outlines the presence of black people in Canada, from the 17th century to the first half of the 20th century.)
• Freedom's Land : Canada and the Underground Railroad . 2004 A film by William Cobban for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ; written, produced and directed by William Cobban ; produced by Marcy Cuttler.
• Fresh Looks. A three tape compilation designed as an anti-racist tool for classroom instruction and cultural education.
  • FRESH  LOOKS, 1: 113 min.  1993: Contents: Out of the Blue; Good Hair, Pretty Hair.
  • FRESH LOOKS, 2: 110 min.  1993: Contents: Cindy, 19 min
  • FRESH LOOKS, 3: 104 min.  1993: Contents: Maigre Dog, 5 min; From Another Time Comes One/Into a New Time Becomes a Brother, 12 min.
• Good Hair Pretty Hair Curly Hair. 1991 (27 min. Andrew Davis: Black Women talking about their experiences with hair depict the process of socialization in the black community.)
• Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community  1983 NFB (documentary describes conditions in the Jane-Finch area of Toronto that prevent residents from developing a sense of community
• Home to Buxton. 1983 (57 minutes: documentary. NFB: Directors: Roger McTair and Claire Preito: Explores Buxton's role as a major Canadian destination for blacks fleeing slavery in the American south on the Underground Railroad.)
• Honour Before Glory. 2001 (65 minutes: Produced and directed by Anthony Sherwood: documentary about the No. 2 Construction Battalion, Canada's Black battalion)
• Human Cargo. (2004) A six-hour CBC feaure film dealing with the circumstances of several refugee claimants in Canada, including one major African character.
• Hymn to Freedom: (documentary series on African-Canadian history)

  1. Quebec: A Canadian Story: The Packwood Family. 1994 (58 min. Features the history of slavery in Lower Canada.)
  2. Nova Scotia: Against the Tides. 1994 (58 min. Shows how the various immigrants contributed to the formation of the province.)
  3. Ontario: A History Buried. 1994 (58 min. Represents the lives of many of the people who came to Ontario to freedom along the Underground Railroad.)
  4. British Columbia, the West: On this Rock. 1994 (58 min. Examines how blacks influenced British Columbia to join the Confederation of Canada instead of joining the United States.)

• In the Key of Oscar 1992 (94 min. Sylvia Sweeny: documentary describes Oscar Peterson's struggle to overcome prejudice in Canada and in the United States and achieve international recognition as a virtuoso jazz pianist.)
• Inequity in the Classroom. 1991 (27 min. Concordia University: Examines sexual/racial biases Canadian women students frequently encounter in colleges, universities and adult education settings.)
• Jane Finch Again. 1997 (47 min. Roger McTair: Speaks to residents who were in the 1983 film Home Feeling about the impact of changes undertaken by community organizations and the police to improve life in the area.)
• Journey to Justice. 2000 (47 min. Roger McTair: Pays tribute to a group of Canadians who took racism to court. Focusing on the 1930s to the 1950s, documents the struggle of six people who refused to accept inequality.)
• Love Come Down. 2000 (feature film. Dir. Clement Virgo, starring Deborah Cox)
• Kandalore. 1990 (27 min. Toronto Board of Education: Follows a group of Toronto area highschool students as they participate in a week long racial awareness program at Camp Kandalore.)
• King of the Hill. 1974 (57 min. NFB: A portrait of Ferguson ("Fergie") Jenkins, a native of Chatham who pitches for the Chicago Cubs National League baseball team.)
• Lie With Me. 2005 (92 min.) Dir. Clement Virgo
• Listen to Us Series. #4. Robyn/Nathan/Vinnie/Eric. 1991 (55 min. NFB: Interviews with four teenagers who have experienced severe problems in the child/parent relationship. Included are problems of immigration and uprootedness.)
• Listening For Something: Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in Conversation. 1996 (56 min. NFB: The American  feminist poet and Trinidadian-Canadian feminist poet engage in a dialogue on many subjects: citizenship, racism. exile, feminism, democracy and poetry. Each reads from her work to illustrate points in their conversation.)
• Making Change directed by Colina Phillips (Nova Scotia).
• Mathieu Da Costa: The Untold Story, Part 1 1998 (18 minutes, documentary)
• The Meeting Place 1990 (52 min. documentary about multicultural Toronto and Canada's immigration policies: Lilian Allen and Clifton Joseph appear.)
• Milk and Honey. (feature film)
• Mixed Messages. 1997 (43 min. For children of mixed marriages, developing a sense of personal cultural identity is complex. Even within a family, siblings may choose different ethnic identifications, or construct a "hybrid" culture.)
• No Time To Stop: Stories of Immigrant and Visible Minority Women. 1990 (29 minutes: NFB: Personalized accounts of the situation of educated immigrant women who are forced into low-paying jobs.)
• No Way!Not Me! 1987 (30 min NFB: Noted Canadian feminist and educator Rosemary Brown tells an audience of Toronto high school students about the social and political realities of the feminization of poverty.)
• Nova Scotia Garbage. 1998 (22 min. CBC: An inquiry into the feelings of a black Nova Scotia community over a garbage landfill for the city of Halifax being placed near their community, which they feel is environmental racism.)
• Nova Scotia: Against the Tides. 1994, (58 minutes: documentary)
• Older, Stronger, Wiser 1989 (28 minutes documentary focuses on five rural and urban black women who speak of what life was like for black women in Canada from the 1920's to the 1950's.)
• One Heart Broken into Song. 2000. (feature film. Clement Virgo)
• On This Rock: the Collins Family. 199X (documentary on African-Canadians in British Columbia)
• Out of Sync: Racial Bias and the Media.  1994 (60 min. Whynot  Prod.: Looks at how Ontario media reflect racial minorities and shape our views of them in their employment practices, news coverage and portrayal in programming.)
• Out of the Blue. 1991 (28 min. Fungus Prod.: Recounts the experience of a black teenager and his family when he was forcibly removed from a Scarborough church service and wrongfully charged with robbery by the Metropolitan Toronto Police.)
• The Packwood Family. 1994 (documentary, Director: Sylvia Sweeny)
• The Photographer: An Artist's Journey.  1998 (48 min. NFB: Michael Chambers has never shied away from the difficult, the uncomfortable, the controversial. His work comments on the human condition, Black identity, self-expression, racism, sexual orientation, and AIDS prevention.)
• The Planet of Junior Brown. 1998, (93 minutes: feature film: Director: Clement Virgo; Co-writers: Clement Virgo and Cameron Bailey. Junior Brown is a musical prodigy who can play concerts in his head - as he must since his mother cut the strings of his piano. His best friend, street-wise Bobby Clark, uses his skills to help out. Based on the book by Virginia Hamilton.)
• Poetry, Talk and Ting: An Evening With Louise Bennett. 1991 (90 min.York University: Louise Bennett, noted Jamaican poet and folklorist, explores the themes that have been basic to her writing. Part reminiscence, part drama, "Miss Lou" explores the Jamaican language, the colonial and post-colonial experience, and the value of stories passed down from ancestors.)
• Race to Freedom: the Underground Railroad. (documentary)
• Raisin' Kane: A Rapumentary. 2001 (NFB. Alison Duke. Rap artistis as entrepreneurs)
• Remember Africville. 1991 NFB (: 35 minutes documentary: Africville, a small black community within the city limits of Halifax was demolished in the 1960's in the name of urban renewal and integration.)
• Seeking Salvation: A History of the Black Church in Canada. (Documentary) 2005 (Phillip Daniels - Director/Producer)
• The Right Candidate for Rosedale. Dir. Bonnie Sherr Klein and Ann Henderson. National Film Board, 1979. 32 min. 52 sec. The story of Anne Cools, a Black woman, and her bid for the Liberal Party nomination in the Toronto riding of Rosedale.
• The Road Taken. 1996 NFB (52 minutes. Director: Selwyn Jacob. Documents the discrimination experienced by Blacks who worked as sleeping-car porters on Canada's railways and their successful legal challenge in 1955 to improve their working conditions.)
• Roland Jean. 1999. (22 min. Michelle Anne Bess: Portrait of Haitian-born Canadian artist Roland Jean, who speaks of the influence of his Haitian heritage, the importance of jazz, and the influence of James Baldwin, Mohammad Ali, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker in his life. Curators comment on his style, and his place among contemporary black artists.)
• Rude.  1995 (90 minutes, feature film)  Director: Clement Virgo. Portrays the inner-city struggle for survival and respect.
• Seven Shades of Pale. Dir. Les Rose. National Film Board, 1975. 28 min. 37 sec. A Black community meeting in Nova Scotia highlights the different perspectives of the older and younger generations towards the ways of obtaining positive change.
• Show Girls : Celebrating Montreal's Legendary Black Jazz Scene. 1998 (52 min. NFB: Three women share their memories against the backdrop of the fascinating social and political history that made Montreal the Eastern seaboard's jazz and nightclub centre for decades.)
• Sitting in Limbo. 1986 (95 min. NFB: The bittersweet love story of Pat and Fabian, two teenagers with roots in the Caribbean, who are struggling in the alien urban environment of Montreal.)
• Skin Deep: the Science of Race.  1996 (47 min. CBC: Relates how skin colour has been used to discriminate against groups of people and the roles colonialism, slavery and economics have played in this. Reveals that genetic variation between individuals is greater that variation between groups of people, and that 75% of human genes are shared by all people.)
• Soul Survivor. 1995 (89 minutes: feature film. Director: Stephen Williams. A beauty salon worker earns extra money by collecting debts for a money lender who is a successful club owner.)
• Speak it From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia. 1993 (29 min. NFB documentary directed by Sylvia Hamilton follows a group of energetic Black students as they work to establish a Cultural Awareness Youth Group, a vehicle for building pride and self-esteem.)
• Speakers For the Dead.  2000. (49 min. NFB: The Old Durham Road Pioneer Cemetery in  Priceville, Ontario, burial ground of the area's original black settlers, lay for many years hidden under a farmer's potato field. As cemetery restoration work progressed, new evidence, resident's memories, and a decision to dig in the cemetery to search for grave stones, divide the community.)
• The Journey of Lesra Martin. Jacob , Selwyn, producer; directed and written by Cheryl Foggo. Montreal : National Film Board of Canada , 2002.
• Tropic North. 1994 (52 min. Jean-Daniel Lafond/Cinema Libre: Focuses on the issues of ethnicity and racism in Quebec as they affect individual Black Canadians.)
• Us and Them: Canadian Identity and Race Relations. 1999 (45 min. Tabata Productions: Ten high school students from varied ethnocultural backgrounds discuss current issues of concern to them about Canadian identity.)
• Voice of the Fugitive. Dir. René Bonnière. National Film Board, 1978. 29 min. 55 sec. This drama follows a group of fugitive slaves travelling North to Canada on the Underground Railroad in the 1850s.
• Welcome to Africville.  1999 (15 min. Dana Inkster: Four actors portray residents of the community and their concerns, on the eve of its demolition. Archival footage of Africville and its end is used as background to the drama.
• Who gets In? 1989 (52 min.  1989: NFB: Presents the impact of Canada's new immigration laws.)
• Women at the Well Series: National Film Board of Canada:
  • 2. Sisters in the Struggle 1991 (52 min. Features black women active in community, labour and feminist organizations as well as electoral politics who share their insights on Canada's legacy of racism and sexism.)
  • Long Time Comin' 1991. (52 min. Documents the experiences of Faith Nolan and Grace Channer, two African-Canadian lesbian artists whose paintings are concerned with issues of race, gender, class and sexuality.

Film Directors

• Browne, Christene
• Another Planet. (Feature film, 90 minutes) 1999
• Them That's Not. (NFB Documentary on women and poverty, 55 minutes) 1993
  
• Hamilton, Sylvia:
• Sierra Leone Odyssey. In development.
• No More Secrets: A Two-Part Series About Violence Against Black Women. In post-production.
• Think On Me: Portia White. Maroon Communications, 1997.
• Champions for Change. 1997.
• Nova Scotia Vignettes. CBC TV, 1996.
• Against the Tides: The Jones Family, Hymn to Freedom Series. Almeta Speaks Productions Inc., 1994.
• You, Me and the CBC. 1994.
• Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia. National Film Board of Canada, 1993.
• The Bet: A Story of Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia. Education Media Services, 1992.
• Black Mother Black Daughter. National Film Board of Canada, 1989.

• Virgo, Clement
• Lie With Me (2005) 92 minutes: feature film
• Love Come Down. (2000) feature film, starring Deborah Cox
• One Heart Broken into Song (1999)
• Rude.  (1995) feature film
• The Planet of Junior Brown. (1994) 93 minutes: feature film) Co-writers: Clement Virgo and Cameron Bailey
• Save My Lost Nigga Soul (1993)
• Split Second Pullout Technique (1992)
• A Small Dick Fleshy Ass Thang (1991) Co-directed with Virginia Rankin..

• Williams, Stephen
• Soul Survivor (Feature film) 1995
• Variations on the Key 2 Life 1994