Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'

2018 - 2018

Legends and Pioneers

13th October 2018

Episode 1

Harry Belafonte, Earl Cameron and Diahann Carroll share candid recollections about what it was like to be a pioneer in a white world.

Black Film Is Not a Genre

20th October 2018

Episode 2

A look at how black film-makers regained their voice, following an era when only white directors told prominent black stories.

Black is the New Hollywood

27th October 2018

Episode 3

Documentary looking at how black movies are no longer seen as a genre and black filmmakers are no longer seen as non-bankable.

Top Cast

Simon Frederick•Carmen Ejogo•Reggie Rock Bythewood

Director

Simon Frederick

Writer

Simon Frederick

Documentary

A unique portrait of how art and activism for black people in film are indivisible from race and cinema.

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Simon Frederick

Narrator (voice)

Carmen Ejogo

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Reggie Rock Bythewood

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Laurence Fishburne

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Nelson George

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Lil Rel Howery

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Kasi Lemmons

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David Oyelowo

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Debbie Allen

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Barry Jenkins

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Ruth E. Carter

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David Harewood

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Jesse Williams

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Ernest R. Dickerson

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John Boyega

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Simon Frederick

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Damian Paul Daniel

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Simon Frederick

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