Black History & Culture

TV Documentaries Featuring Black History & Modern Day Black Culture

Most of the clickable buttons below are online links to TV programmes or documentaries that have been shown on British Mainstream TV over the past four years or so.

In recent years, a great many organisations including the mainstream media in the UK, have been making an extra special effort to promote diversity.

Below is a small sample of numerous TV documentaries aired during 2020 (and some from 2021, 2022 and 2023) - many in response to the call for more diversity, or attempting to address historical racial concerns.

Many are easily found online on YouTube, etc. or streaming on BBC iPlayer etc. as well as on mainstream TV for education and/or enjoyment. We hope this small sample will enlighten and encourage further research.

Ezra Collective win the Mercury Prize 2023

The Richard Dimbleby Lecture 2023 by David Harewood

BT article on Standing Firm: Football's Windrush Story - Also shown on ITV on 24th Oct. 2021

Standing Firm is presented and narrated by BAFTA award-winning Benjamin Zephaniah...

It is featured on BT Sport. You can watch clips of it in the detailed article linked above. The full video is in the link below:

Standing Firm: Football's Windrush Story: The full video on BT Sport Films

Small Axe - Education - Compulsive Viewing

David Lammy interviewed about The Unremembered (Millions of Black soldiers who died in WW1)

Enslaved with Samuel L. Jackson - BBC2 October 2020

Black & British - A Forgotten History

The Black Nurses who saved the NHS

Lenny Henry interviewed by Alan Yentob