It's black history month

(This painting was from an exhibit at the Blanton Museum in Austin, Texas, on Caribbean artists.)

I really don't feel we need to have a month to celebrate black history. Everyday there is a black person making history in some form. They may not realize the impact they are making at the time, but they'll see it in time.

Here are a list of 29 films I will be watching this month. Of course there are many black films that I have in my collection, but I watch them at other times during the year so that is the reason they are not a part of this list.

Create your own list and watch the films that are relevant to you.

I was trying to put the films in order to tell a story, but what I watch will be based on my mood. Some of the films are not easy to watch so I have to be in the right frame of mind.

Amistad, Lincoln, Glory, Miss Jane Pittman, The Color Purple, The Long Walk Home, Selma, The Soul of the Game, Josephine Baker, Lady Sings the Blues, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Malcolm X, The Great Debators, Rosewood, Ray, Mahogany, Men of Honor, Remember the Titans, Island in the Sun, The Defiant Ones, Something The Lord Has Made, The Mack, Brother to Brother, Boomerang, Dead Presidents, Get on the Bus, School Daze, and Ali.

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The Color Purple

I decided to watch this film since I hadn’t seen it in a long time. Most of the movies in my top 200, I try to watch once a year. As I get older and my experiences change I see certain films differently. I’ve always had a connection with film, but rarely would I get emotional about a film. I remember as a kid watching the Wizard of Oz and having fear when Dorothy was carried away by the flying monkey. I remembered being scared by Blacula and Michael Myers, but it wasn’t until Less Than Zero that I could really relate to someone dying. I was a kid the first time anyone close to me had passed and it wasn’t something I had experienced before. It didn’t have a big impact on me. I would be an adult by the time anyone I had a bond with would pass away.

The Color Purple is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Author Alice Walker. It brought to the surface issues that many black people just didn’t talk about.

The film received much praise and various awards. It launched the film career of Whoopi Goldberg. This is a must see film for anyone who likes movies and those fans of Whoopi Goldberg. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg who also directed the film Amistad.

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