Title: Why We Make Movies : Black Filmmakers Talk About the Magic of Cinema
Author: Alexander, George
ISBN: 0767911814
Call Number: 791.4302 AL26w
Notes: Features interviews with Spike Lee, Kasi Lemmons, Mario Van Peebles, Ossie Davis, Keenen Ivory Wayans and Forest Whitaker, and many other Black filmmakers.

Title: Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams
Author: Bogle, Donald
ISBN: 0345454189
Call Number: 791.4308 B634br
Notes: Subtitled The Story of Black Hollywood, this book uncovers the history of African Americans in the movie making industry.

Title: Black on Black: Urban Youth Films and the Multicultural Audience
Author: Fisher, Celeste A.
ISBN: 9780810857223
Call Number: 791.4365 F531b
Notes: This book includes essays on popular urban films, such as Boyz n the Hood and Menace II Society.

Title: Framing Blackness : the African American Image in Film
Author: Guerrero, Ed
ISBN: 1566391261
Call Number: 791.4365 G937f
Notes: A classic, early 1990's look at African Americans on the silver screen.

Title: We Gotta Have It : Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies, 1986-2006
Author: Iverem, Esther
ISBN: 9781560259169
Call Number: 791.4309 IV3w
Notes: A survey of Black films and filmmakers.

Title: African Americans in Film and Television
Author: Lommel, Cookie
ISBN: 0791072681
Call Number: 791.4308 L838a
Notes: This book is full of photographs featuring the history of Black actors and actresses on television and cinemas.

Title: Oscar Micheaux, the Great and Only : the Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
Author: McGilligan, Patrick
ISBN: 9780060731397
Call Number: 791.4302 M5823m
Notes: A groundbreaking biography of Micheaux (1884-1951), America's first Black director.