Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story
Directed by Yemi Bamiro
Everyone knows the phrase “Black is Beautiful,” but few know of the man who helped popularize it. Little known Harlem based photographer - freedom fighter and activist - Kwame Brathwaite took 500,000 photos across his 70-year career, always devoted to celebrating the joy and beauty of African American life. This feature documentary tells the story of Kwame and the “Black is Beautiful” movement.
Everyone knows the phrase “Black is Beautiful,” but few know of the man who helped popularize it.
Fri 11 Sep
1 cinema across the UK
London
BFI Southbank
London
Across the UK · week of 31 August – 6 September 2026
- cinemas showing it
- 2 of 876
- of active cinemas
- 0.2%
Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story showed at 2 of the 876 active cinemas in the UK in the week of 31 August – 6 September 2026 (0.2% of cinemas with screenings that week).
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