Films

This section brings together commercially made films on leading African American physicians and other topics, as well as a series of lectures delivered at the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine for Black History Month or Martin Luther King, Jr Celebrations.

Films with viewable content

Agwunobi (2007) Africans in the America -- a Legacy of Hope, Service, and Leadership

(1995) Charles Drew Determined to Succeed

Rodgers (2013) NIH 2013 African American History Month Observance Program

White (2011) What Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Would Want Us to Know About Health Care Disparities

All Films

Adams (2010) NIH Black History Month Observance, 2010

Agwunobi (2007) Africans in the America -- a Legacy of Hope, Service, and Leadership

Bailey (2002) Tracing the Roots of Black Folk Medicine a Cultural Anthropological Approach

Barnett (2000) Ben Carson

Barnett (2001) High Achievers

Barnett (1999) Medical Leaders

Barnett (1997) One Doctor Daniel Hale Williams

Blakey (2001) New York's African Burial Ground and the Struggle for Human Rights

Bowers, Bernard (1974) Matthew Walker, M.D

Bowers, Leffall (1976) W. Montague Cobb, M.D

Bryant, (2010) African American History Month

Callender (1993) LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr. Chairman, Department of Surgery, Howard University Hospital

Caporaso, (2004) Traco

Carnegie (1992) A Conversation with Elizabeth Carnegie

Carson (2006) The National Institutes of Health Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Commemorative Program 2006

Cornwell, (2009) Opening Doors Celebrating the Journey and Achievements of African American Surgeons

Cross (1994) Shades of Black Diversity in African-American Identity

Dickens (1999) Helen Octavia Dickens, M.D. Follows Her Dream

Freeman (2003) Eliminating Health Disparities a Satellite Broadcast for Outreach Workers

Gates (2006) African American Lives

Gates (2008) African American Lives 2

Gates (2006) Charlie Rose

Gracia (2001) Bright Minds

Hardy (1995) The Psychological Residuals of Slavery

Haynes, Rashad (2003) Bringin' in Da Spirit

Hoffman, Salerno (2012) The Weight of the Nation

Height (2004) 2004 NIH Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Observance

Herman, (2003) NIH 2003 African American History Month Observance

Higginbotham, (2009) NIH Black History Month Observance

(1995) Charles Drew Determined to Succeed

Hogan, Jenkins, , (2004) Health Disparities Why We Need New Approaches

Hood (2001) The NIH Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Annual Observance

Hrabowski (2002) NIH 2002 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Commemoration Program

Humphreys (2011) Intensely Human the Health of Black Soldiers in the American Civil War

Jackson (2002) Race and Ethnic Disparities in Physical and Mental Health the National Survey of American Life

Jarvis (1994) NIH Annual Observance of African American History February 1, 1994, Masur Auditorium

Jayaratne, (2002) White and African-American Genetic Explanations for Gender, Class, and Race Differences

Jenkins (1997) In Medical Science

Kinniebrew (2011) NIH 2011 Black History Month Observance

Laurencin, (2011) NIH 2011 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Observance

LaVeist, (2011) The Skin You're in Making Progress in Eliminating Health Inequalities

Leffall, (2007) No Boundaries a Cancer Surgeon's Odyssey and the Contribution of African American Surgeons to Medicine

LeHardy, Gentry (1998) Standing in the Safety Zone Baltimore Remembers the 1918 Flu Epidemic

Mays, Mays (2000) Racism, Sexism, and Poverty Are Hazardous to Our Health

McBride (1999) The African-American Medical Experience Perspectives and Prospects ; Part 2--Voting Rights Act

Morrison, (2010) Called to Practice African American "grannies", Midwives, & Health Reform

Oestreich (1994) A History of African American Radiology

Olopade, (2006) Nature, Nurture, and Breast Cancer

Organ (1987) A Century of Black Surgeons: The U.S.A. Experience (film)

Randolph (2006) Race and Health New Directions for the History of Medicine

Reynolds, Lindberg (2004) Racially Integrating America's Hospitals NIH and the Medicare Hospital Certification Program

Richards, Zeigler (1998) Reminiscences of TB Sanitorium and Preventorium

Roberts (2008) New Histories for New Politics Making African-American Health History Matter

Robertson, Geiger (2005) False Promises & True Disparities Why Healthy People 2010 Will Fail: [the 11th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health]

Rodgers (2013) NIH 2013 African American History Month Observance Program

Satcher, (1997) Tuskegee Experiment Apology

Schwartz (2007) Birthing a Slave Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South

Smith, Lyons (2007) Forgotten Genius

Smith (2009) Miss Margaret

Stoney, Mason, Butler (1950) Palmour Street (a Study in Family Life)

Taylor (2005) Health and the Built Environment the Effects of Where We Live, Work and Play

Wailoo (2005) How Cancer Crossed the Color Line Race and Disease in 20th Century America

Watkins, Wexler, Lovett, Sacchetti, Gott, Branch, Kidwell (2006) Finding a Rainbow in the Clouds the Tenure of Dr. Levi Watkins at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

White (2011) What Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Would Want Us to Know About Health Care Disparities

Wilder (2003) 2003 NIH Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Observance

Wilmer, Parker (1926) TB Sanitorium and Preventorium

Yancy (2002) Asa Yancy, MD