#34: Nothing But A Man (1964)

The last film in my black history month series, Nothing But A Man is a perfect ending at that. This is a very brave film, especially considering the year in which it was made. The films director, Michael Roemer, was a documentarian at the time who was supposedly determined to make a serious film about African-Americans. This is a movie about a black man's struggles with life as a laborer in the segregated South and love of a preacher's daughter in an upper class. I was surprised at how many of the issues in the film - his issues with his father, his issues as the father of a son he conceived with a woman out of wedlock, his issues with marrying a woman with a higher education and more means - resonate today. This is definitely an important film.