Features Gates guiding eleven other African Americans on a search for their ancestry while exploring the history of African Americans from the Middle Passage and slavery to the early 20th century.

Harvard professor and scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates brings one of his bestselling books to the small screen with the four-part PBS documentary AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES.

The remarkable history of Alex Haley's paternal side. Queen is the daughter of a slave and a plantation owner. During the turbulent decades of the antebellum South, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond, she searches for a home in the two cultures and at times is shunned by both. Rejection and hate are no match for her unconquerable will.

Hosted by acclaimed Harvard professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., the four-part series finds Gates travelling across the United States to interview a wide spectrum of African-Americans (including celebrities Maya Angelou, Colin Powell, and Samuel L. Jackson).

Utilizing archival photographs, film footage, diaries, letters, and interviews with fellow activists, this episode of PBS' AMERICAN EXPERIENCE chronicles the trajectory of King's personal transformations between the 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech and his tragic assassination five years later.

This inspirational documentary is about a band of courageous civil-rights activists calling themselves the Freedom Riders. Gaining impressive access to influential figures on both sides of the issue, it chronicles a chapter of American history that stands as an astonishing testament to the accomplishment of youth and what can result from the incredible combination of personal conviction and the courage to organize against all odds.

Uses a wealth of archival film, photographs and documents to uncover the story of this Jamaican immigrant who between 1916 and 1921 built the largest black mass movement in world history. Also features interviews with people who witnessed the Garvey movement first hand.

The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, was a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. Although Till's killers were apprehended, they were quickly acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury and proceeded to sell their story to a journalist, providing grisly details of the murder. Three months after Till's body was recovered, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began.

This documentary goes beyond the standard stories of the 2008 campaign, revealing exactly how Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States.

Follow Obama through his teenage struggles for self-identity, his student days at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, and his political career in Chicago. Go behind the scenes of Obama's extraordinarily successful presidential campaign and his journey towards the 2008 Democratic Convention.

Explores the stories of five African Americans whose lives and work changed the world forever. The dramatic stories of Thurgood Marshall, Muhammad Ali, Marian Anderson, Jesse Owens, and Shirley Chisholm are animated through intimate interviews, rare archival materials, and fascinating vintage footage, collectively documenting the prejudices and difficulties they had to overcome in order to achieve their goals and illuminating why their efforts remain inspirations to all.

This program is a moving portrait of Chester Himes who used his literary talents to vent his rage against an unjust society. Ellison's ambitious journey from a childhood of hardship and poverty to celebrated African American writer is chronicled in this inspiring program.

In a style similar to "Wonders of the African World", Skip Gates will travel to places in Latin America where Africa has touched the continent with lasting cultural results to explore what happens when African and Hispanic worlds meet.

In a style similar to "Wonders of the African World", Skip Gates will travel to places in Latin America where Africa has touched the continent with lasting cultural results to explore what happens when African and Hispanic worlds meet.

Documents Barack Obama's history-making road to the White House as the nation's first African-American president.

Nandi Nyembe's collection of children stories from Africa are entertaining and enlightening works that offer children an opportunity to broaden their horizons. Twelve African fables are included in these two volumes, including "The Greedy Spider," "Monkey and Hyena," "The Mole and the Swallow," "Warthog and Bushpig," "How Dabula Got Married," and many more!

An extremely powerful and uplifting story about a family of black sharecroppers, the Morgans, set in rural Louisiana during the early 1930s, DISNEY'S SOUNDER is an adaptation of the Newberry Award winning novel by William H. Armstrong.

Colin Powell, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Quincy Jones are among the celebrated figures who pay tribute to the legendary Dr. Martin Luther King on this documentary program. Also included is some little-seen footage of the great man, including a heated debate from 1967 on THE MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW.

Rare and largely unseen film and photos of the civil rights giant tell his tragic but inspirational story. Available in 60 minute and 73 minute versions.

This animated musical release for kids pays tribute to jazz legends Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald with four stories, each painting inspirational portraits of the musicians and the lasting impression they made on the world of music.