Preserving the history of America’s first black filmmakers To preserve this history, the company Kino Lorber released a five-disc collection this year containing 20 hours of these films. Watch Related archives 5 Black Historical Films | What they Got RIGHT and WRONG | By an *Actual* Historian Dialogue with Black Filmmakers - John Singleton (1992) The History of Blaxploitation films Blaxploitation 101: How black filmmakers took on the system and got shafted Sidney Poitier Documentary (1996) August Wilson, Playwright | Biography