Screenplay: Suzan-Lori Parks

Direction Suzan-Lori Parks · Anthony Hemingway

Cast Cynthia Erivo · Shaian Jordan · Marque Richardson · Pauletta Washington

Plot GENIUS dramatizes the fascinating stories of the world’s most brilliant innovators, exploring their extraordinary achievements along with their volatile, passionate and complex personal relationships. The third season of the anthology...

Direction Rashid Johnson

Cast Ashton Sanders · Margaret Qualley · Nick Robinson · KiKi Layne

Plot Bigger “Big” Thomas, a young African American man, lives with his mother and siblings in Chicago. Half-heartedly involved with a girlfriend, he sports green hair and a punk jacket, smokes...

Direction Darnell Martin

Cast Halle Berry · Ruben Santiago-Hudson · Michael Ealy · Nicki Micheaux

Plot Covering the first 30 years of the 20th century, the film is set in Eatonville, FL, a largely black community and the home of free-spirited Janie Crawford (Halle Berry), forced...

Direction Lee Daniels

Cast Andra Day · Trevante Rhodes · Natasha Lyonne · Garrett Hedlund

Plot Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she...

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Theresa Randle · Isaiah Washington · Spike Lee · John Turturro

Plot This Spike Lee film examines the life of an aspiring actress in New York. She is upset by the treatment of women in the movie industry during one of her...

Direction Kenneth Biller · Suzan-Lori Parks · Crystle Roberson · Director X.

Cast Aaron Pierre · Kelvin Harrison Jr. · Jayme Lawson · Weruche Opia

Plot It centers on the formative years, accomplishments, dueling philosophies and key personal relationships of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.