Black Hollywood: They've Gotta Have Us - Season 1
Through a chain of energizing conditions, this narrative series discusses about the black actors, extraordinarily in the film making. From the outset, they didn't get an opportunity as a result of the racism yet then they go to be at the main shots.
10 April 1960, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
April1971, Chicago, Illinois, USA
19 November 1979, Miami, Florida, USA
22 August 1967, Islington, London, England, UK
1 March 1927, New York City, New York, USA
31 December 1987, London, England, UK
25 June 1951, Newark, New Jersey, USA
17 March 1992, Peckham, London, England, UK
29 November 1964, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
8 August 1917, Pembroke, Bermuda
4 April 1972, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
6 February 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
31 December 1944, Santa Barbara, California, USA
21 June 1983, Santa Rosa, California, USA
24 February 1961, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
16 January 1950, Houston, Texas, USA
1 April 1976, Oxford, England, UK
13 November 1955, New York City, New York, USA
18 November 1952, Eltham, London, England, UK
1 September 1957, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2 March 1989, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
2 January 1968, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
8 December 1965, Birmingham, England, UK
2 January 1980, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
22 October 1973, Kensington, London, England, UK
7 July 1965, Bronx, New York, USA
21 April 1975, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
February 13, 2020
They've Gotta Have Us ultimately succeeds in reiterating the artistry and colossal influence of Black Cinema.
February 06, 2020
They've Gotta Have Us shows exhilaratingly that a growing number of black filmmakers are moving us in the right direction.
March 27, 2020
This series makes you want to seek out so many great films again - or for the first time.
February 05, 2020
Black filmmakers have been making these points for decades, and the success of Black art shouldn't be equated to how profitable or relatable it is to white audiences. [It] often fails to tell what feels like an entire story because of this limited focus.
March 27, 2020
Powerful, sensitive, and fascinating, this docies focuses on a serious, important topic, but its talking-head interviews are so lively and fresh that it's a joy to watch instead of ponderous.
February 05, 2020
As a documentary about black history in movies reminds us, the Oscars provide only one of the more visible and symbolic manifestations of where and how progress needs to be made.
February 28, 2020
This isn't a simple story, but it's a crucial and lively one, made all the more relevant by the current renaissance in black filmmaking.
March 05, 2020
I'm really glad that this series exists, because ... it tells an important, often unknown history of the movies.
February 06, 2020
In touching on many topics but only substantively granting insights into a few of them, the finished product comes across as unfocused and incomplete.
October 16, 2018
The rush to reach the modern era meant significant, unfortunate omissions - perhaps Paul Robeson proved too complex a character to crowbar into the scattershot narrative - but the narrators were still inspiring, their stories indubitably worth hearing.
February 04, 2020
Frederick fashions a collage of Blackness never before seen on either side of the pond.
