Marlon Riggs Filmes

Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act....

This documentary traces the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice.

From Amos 'n' Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many roles on primetime television. Brilliantly weaving...

African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses...

Five gay Black men who are HIV-positive discuss how they are battling the double stigmas surrounding their infection and homosexuality.

Incorporating archival material, revelatory verite footage, and clips from his own work, a documentary which chronicles the life and works of the...

A look at what it's like to be gay and black in America.

A collage of erotic images and a call to arms, with a feverish hip-hop energy that celebrates the lives of African American men.

The narrator/filmmaker is Peter Adair (Word is Out) and the disease is the HIV virus. Adair has asked 11 people — women and men, gay and...

Marlon Riggs and Peter Webster’s thesis project reflects on the heyday of Oakland blues in the late 1940s and ’50s, when an influx of...

Positive Men begins as a docudrama which illustrates the impact of the AIDS epidemic on gay men in the early 1980s. Memories of New York and San...

An examination of atomic weapons systems and the pressures on the United States and the Soviet Union to constantly expand their atomic arsenals.