Bessie Smith Movies

A distressed detective feels an overwhelming guilt after letting a killer get away.

In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and...

A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa...

The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.

Wild Women Don't Have the Blues shows how the blues were born out of the economic and social transformation of African American life early in this...

In 1966, CBC Television invited some of North America's greatest blues performers to gather in a studio in Toronto, recording together and...