An award-winning documentary classic about the exploitation and foreign domination of the Haitian people.
An exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism, from America to Africa, and its impact on society today.
The resilience of traditional African religions practiced in the United States.
A nurse is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on a Caribbean island.
For centuries, the religion of Vodou has been thought of as sticking pins in dolls or witchcraft. It has been kept underground and practiced in secret, giving way too much misunderstanding and sensationalism.
Haitian Song is an anthropological film about farmers in rural Haiti. The film follows Gustav and Zillmen and the everyday rituals that mark their lifestyle.
A journey in Haiti that takes us to different places in different ways, to meet people fighting and not giving up.
A couple, two sisters, and a father and son are driven to New York from Haiti to confront the truths of their interlocked pasts.
A man who spent seven years in a Haitian jail sacrifices all for revenge upon his torturer.
A documentary film about Haitian vodou.
Built on fragments of memory, the story of a young girl's intuitive struggle for survival in the malevolent political and social environment of Haiti under Papa Doc Duvalier in the 1960s.
A restless daughter meets a spirit-fish who gives her pure water but as her family devours the delicious water, they begin to suspect more than the origin of its taste.
Freda lives with her family in a popular neighborhood in Haiti. They survive with their little street food shop. The precariousness and violence of their daily life push them to do everything they can to escape their situation.
Macro-lensing of Black women from Haiti and New Orleans doing skillful work – braiding hair, crushing spices, threading fabric – is superimposed onto the work of soldier ants to visually manifest in four stanzas the mythology of their queen.
Papa Machete explores the esoteric martial art through the practice and life of a farmer named Alfred Avril. The short film documents his proud devotion to his heritage in the face of increased globalization, and his efforts to keep this mysterious art alive.
A documentary on Caribbean people living as immigrants. It tells the story of second-generation Caribbean immigrants and the challenges they face in holding to their family heritage while embracing American culture.
The history of how Haiti won its independence, carrying out the first-ever successful slave rebellion.
