Marlon Riggs Trailers
I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs TrailerBlack Is… Black Ain’t TrailerPositive Men Trailer
Marlon Troy Riggs (February 3, 1957 – April 5, 1994) was an American filmmaker, educator (professor), poet, and gay rights activist. He produced, wrote, and directed several television documentaries, including Ethnic Notions, Tongues Untied, Color Adjustment, and Black is... Black Ain't. Riggs created aesthetically innovative and socially provocative films that examine past and present representations of race and sexuality in America. The Marlon Riggs Collection is now housed at Stanford University Libraries.
Most Popular Marlon Riggs Trailers
Total trailers found: 13
05 December 1986
This documentary traces the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice.
23 June 1990
A look at what it's like to be gay and black in America.
21 July 1993
A collage of erotic images and a call to arms, with a feverish hip-hop energy that celebrates the lives of African American men.
10 September 1993
In these sexy, fun and darkly entertaining boys shorts, we see the hilarious terrors of gay childhood, an Internet hook-up with unexpected motivation and what happens when you hate musicals.
16 March 1990
Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act.
27 October 1996
Incorporating archival material, revelatory verite footage, and clips from his own work, a documentary which chronicles the life and works of the black, openly gay filmmaker Marlon Riggs whose controversial body works exploded on the scene with his landmark 1989 film "Tongues Untied" (USA).
11 July 1995
Positive Men begins as a docudrama which illustrates the impact of the AIDS epidemic on gay men in the early 1980s.
06 August 1982
An examination of atomic weapons systems and the pressures on the United States and the Soviet Union to constantly expand their atomic arsenals.
01 January 1981
Marlon Riggs and Peter Webster’s thesis project reflects on the heyday of Oakland blues in the late 1940s and ’50s, when an influx of African American shipyard workers mostly hailing from Louisiana and Texas arrived in the Bay Area.
11 October 1995
African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses the camera from his hospital bed in several scenes.
29 January 1992
From Amos 'n' Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many roles on primetime television.
23 February 1991
11 people — women and men, gay and straight, from all walks of life — share their stories. Alternately irreverent, candid and soulful, this stirring film is not about being sick; it is about being true to the emotional complexity of being mortal.
25 June 1993
Five gay Black men who are HIV-positive discuss how they are battling the double stigmas surrounding their infection and homosexuality.
