#1. The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (2004)

  • Rating: 7.6/10
  • Length: 70 mins
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Director: Keith Beauchamp

Storyline: This documentary presents a sobering reminder of the racial tensions that gripped America not so long ago. In Mississippi during the '50s, a black teenager named Emmett Louis Till, who is from Chicago and visiting his great-uncle, whistles at a white woman in public. Not too long afterward, he is kidnapped and murdered. The filmmakers revisit the public outrage that follows, revealing Till's family as being particularly brave for standing up to white racism when it was clearly unsafe to do so.

Plot Keywords: mother, civil rights activist, family member, sheriff, teenager, al sharpton, raw ...

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#2. Good Hair (2009)

  • Rating: 6.9/10
  • Length: 95 mins
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Director: Jeff Stilson

Storyline: Chris Rock, a man with two daughters, asks about good hair, as defined by Black Americans, mostly Black women. He visits Bronner Brothers' annual hair convention in Atlanta. He tells us about sodium hydroxide, a toxin used to relax hair. He looks at weaves, and he travels to India where tonsure ceremonies produce much of the hair sold in America. A weave is expensive: he asks who makes the money. We visit salons and barbershops, central to the Black community. Rock asks men if they can touch their mates' hair - no, it's decoration. Various talking heads (many of them women with good hair) comment. It's about self image. Maya Angelou and Tracie Thoms provide perspective.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: daughter, celebrity, african-american woman, al sharpton, engaging, hilarious, profound ...

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