Top 20 movies like Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People

Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People

The film explores the role of photography, since its rudimentary beginnings in the 1840s, in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present. The dramatic arch is developed as a visual narrative that flows through the past 160 years to reveal black photography as an instrument for social change, an African American point-of-view on American history, and a particularized aesthetic vision.

Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People is of 1 hour(s) and 32 minute(s). It is Produced By:  K Period Media. It was released on 2014-08-27. It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.

Genres: Documentary

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2. Alita: Battle Angel

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3. The Specials (Hors Normes)

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4. Crocodile Dundee II

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6. Man with a Movie Camera (Человек с киноаппаратом)

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7. De Pernas pro Ar 2 (De Pernas pro Ar 2)

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Alice owns a network of sex shops and workaholic who, in trying to reconcile the harsh routine of work and family life, suffers nervous breakdown, she is forced by her husband to go to spa. Precisely at this time, appears unique opportunity to expand its business in New York. Using fun gimmicks, risks his health, leaves spa party there with family to ride, but actually in order to facilitate their professional interests. In trying to reconcile the agendas, engage in hilarious situations and mistakes that culminate in the possible separation of the couple.

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8. The Harder They Fall

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10. The Batman

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11. The French Dispatch

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12. A Special Day (Una giornata particolare)

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