LITS Book Display Guide

A raisin in the sun (1961)

Directed by Daniel Petrie and written by Lorraine Hansberry

Call number: PN1997 .R159 1999

Available

 

Atlanta (seasons 1 & 2) (2018)

Created by Donald Glover

Call number: MHC Leisure Films

Available

 

Belly  (1999)

Written and directed by Hype Williams

Call number: MHC Leisure Films

Available

 

Boyz n the Hood (2003)

Written and directed by John Singleton

Call number: PN1997 .B693 2003

Available

 

Daughters of the dust (1991)

Written and directed by Julie Dash

Call number: PN1997.2 .D38 2017

Available

 

Dear white people (season one) (2018)

Directed by Justin Simien and Nisha Ganatra and written by Justin Simien

Call number: MHC Leisure Films

Available

 

Do the right thing (1989)

Written and directed by Spike Lee

Call number: PN1997 .D6 2009

Available

 

Eve's Bayou (1997)

Written and directed by Kasi Lemmons and Samuel L. Jackson

Call number: PN1997 .E9336 2003 DVD

Available

 

Fruitvale Station (2013)

Written and directed by Ryan Coogler

Call number: PN1997.2 .F78 2014

Available

 

Get out (2017)

Written and directed by Jordan Peele

Call number: MHC Leisure Films

Available

 

Girls Trip (2017)

Directed by Malcom D. Lee and written by Kenya Barris, Tracy Oliver, and Erica Rivinoja

Call number: MHC Leisure Films

Available

 

Harriet (2020)

Directed by Kasi Lemmons, written by Gregory Allen Howard and Kasi Lemmons, and produced by Debra Martin Chase and Daniela Taplin Lundberg. 

Call number: MHC Leisure Films

Available

 

If Beale Street Could Talk (2019)

Written and directed by Barry Jenkins

Call number: MHC Leisure Films

Available

 

Insecure (season one) (2017)

Directed by Melina Matsoukas, Kevin Bray, Debbie Allen, and Cecile Emeke. Written by Issa Rae, Larry Wilmore, Natasha Rothwell, Jen Regan, Ben Cory Jones, Laura Kittrell, Amy Aniobi, Ben Dougan, Dayna Lynne North, and Prentice Penny.

Available

 

Judas and the Black messiah (2021)

Directed by Shaka King and written by Will Berson, Kenny Lucas, Keith Lucas, and Shaka King. 

Available

 

Just Wright (2010)

Directed by Sanaa Hamri and written by Michael Elliot

Call number: MHC Leisure Films

Available

 

Love & basketball (2004)

Written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood

Call number: MHC Leisure Films

Available

 

Lovecraft country (2021)

Created by Misha Green

Call number: MHC Leisure Films

Available

 

Malcolm X (2005)

Directed by Spike Lee and written by Arnold Perl and Spike Lee. 

Call number: PN1997 .M348 2005

Available

 

Moonlight (2017)

Directed by Barry Jenkins and written by Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney

Call number: PN1997.2 .M66 2017

Available

 

Nope (2022)

Written, produced, and directed by Jordan Peele

Call number: MUNC #29 null

On Reserve

 

Pariah (2012)

Written and directed by Dee Rees

Call number: PN1997.2 .P372 2012

Available

 

Queen & Slim (2020)

Directed by Melina Matsoukas and written by Lena Waithe and James Frey

Call number: MHC Leisure Films

Available

 

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997)

Directed by Robert Iscove and written by Robert L. Freedman

Call number: MH Leisure Films

Available

 

Selma (2015)

Directed by Ava Duvernay and written by Paul Webb

Call number: MH Leisure Films

Available

 

 

Shaft (1971)

Directed by Gordon Parks and written by Ernest Tidyman and John D. F. Black

Call number: PN1997.A1 S534 2006

Available

 

She's gotta have it (1986)

Written and directed by Spike Lee

Call number: PN1995.9.C55 S547 2008

Available

 

Sorry to bother you (2018)

Written and directed by Boots Riley

Call number: MH Leisure Films

On Reserve

 

Spiderman: into the spiderverse (2019)

Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman. Written by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman.

Call number: MHC Leisure Films

Available

 

Straight outta compton (2016)

Directed by F. Gary Gray and written by Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge, and Alan Wenkus. 

Call number: MHC Leisure Films

Available

 

The Color Purple (1985)

Based on the novel by Alice Walker and directed by Steven Spielberg

Call number: PN1997 .C645 2003

Available

 

The Photograph (2020)

Written and directed by Stella Meghie

Call number: MHC Leisure Films

Available

 

The watermelon woman (1996)

Written and directed by Cheryl Dunye

Call number: PN1997 .W38 2000

Available

 

Training day (2001)

Directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Ayer

Call number: MHC Leisure Films

Available

 

Tsotsi (2005)

Written and directed by Gavin Hood

Call number: PN1997.2 .T768 2006

Available

 

What happened, Miss Simone? (2016)

Directed by Liz Garbus

Call number: ML420.S5635 W43 2016

Available

 

Widows (2019)

Directed by Steve McQueen and written by Gillian Flynn and Steve McQueen

Call number: MHC Leisure Films

Available