Black History and Cinema

Okay. So we're 36 days into the new year and I've only seen 17 films thus far. I'm not going to panic. I am going to try to make up for some of my movie viewing laziness this weekend. Hopefully I can watch a couple movies a day and have a nice marathon viewing this weekend to get caught up. I have decided to do something a little different for the month of February. Since it's Black History Month, I'm going to try to watch more films that have either black actors as lead characters, are directed/written by black filmmakers, or tell stories that have some kind of influence or impact on black culture. I've got a bunch of films queued up in Netflix that fit this, but of course, I'll still be watching some films that don't. I'm looking forward to learning a little something about black cinema. Let the history lessons begin...