Though they go by different names, almost every major streaming service has some type of “Black film” collection, often promoted during the month of February or, during 2020’s Black Lives Matter ...

Huge questions loom about the status of an archive of thousands of films that dates back to 1927. During the Taliban’s rule of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, women and girls were shut out of public ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Birthed from a Twitter thread, which was itself birthed from the much-ness of being Black during a ...

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, currently under construction in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park, has announced its acquisition of the Separate Cinema Archive, the most prominent African American film ...

The forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, founded by filmmaker George Lucas his wife, Mellody Hobson, has has acquired the Separate Cinema Archive, a collection of 37,000 objects documenting ...

Today we are celebrating the 2018 UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage by trying to answer this question: Why would archives invest in new copies of films that have already been copied to a ...