REGINALD HUDLIN IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH!
Here’s a list of movies, television shows and books I’ve made over the years that will enlighten and entertain you all month long!
SIDNEY
My latest award-winning film is available on apple plus. If you haven’t seen it, I promise you will be moved and find out more about a great man no matter how much you think you know about him.
THE BLACK GODFATHER
This film documents a man that connected music, politics, and business (legal and otherwise) in a way that made so much Black history possible…and very deliberately, no one knows who he is, except for every famous person you do know about. Available on Netflix.
PHAT TUESDAY
This three-episode docuseries available on Amazon charts the rise of Black comedy from all Black comedy clubs to the mainstream of the entertainment business. See how your favorite comedians became who they are and how they changed both show business to society at large.
MILESTONE: GENERATIONS
This documentary on HBOMAX tells the story of the rise, fall, and resurrection of the first Black comic book company, Milestone Media. Usually, I’m the one telling the story, but in this one, I am one of the subjects as one of partners responsible for Static Shock, Icon, and Rocket and so many more great superheroes.
MARSHALL
I’ve always felt that Thurgood Marshall was an underrated figure in our culture, as important to our advancement as Martin Luther King or Malcolm X because he was the only one who lead the fight for justice in the courtroom. When I got to make this film, starring the late great Chadwick Boseman and the dream cast of Sterling K. Brown, Josh Gad, and Kate Hudson, it was a great experience and is Chadwick’s most popular film outside of his Black Panther appearances.
THE NAACP IMAGE AWARDS
For 11 years, I have produced the preeminent celebration of Black excellence in film, television, music, literature, and theater. This year it airs February 25th on CBS, BET and other networks.
THE BLACK MOVIE SOUNDTRACK CELEBRATION AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL
I’ve done four editions of reviving great music by Black composers and artists for Black cinema at the best music venue in Los Angeles, the Hollywood Bowl. The Bowl orchestra along with an amazing array of guests artists like Earth Wind and Fire, Charlie Wilson, El DeBarge, Common, Snoop Dogg, Lalah Hathaway, Kid and Play, Pubic Enemy, Jennifer Holiday, Bebe Winans, Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, Warren G, En Vogue, Maya Rudolph, and so many others have performed amazing shows while awesome movie clips play. You got to feel it to believe it.
THE COMPLETE REGINALD HUDLIN BLACK PANTHER
Building on the work of Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Christopher Priest, my version of BLACK PANTHER is the most popular version of the character. It’s the template for the feature films. It is also the basis of the animated series I wrote and produced. It’s available on Amazon.
MILESTONES IN HISTORY
When I was a kid I loved all kinds of comics. Marvel, DC, Gold Key, Harvey, Thunder…I read them all. But when I came across a series of Black History comics, my world was rocked. As I have worked in the industry, my determination of doing books like that has only grown. My partner Denys felt the same way so we made MILESTONES IN HISTORY, using Milestone heroes to “host” a book about some of the greatest super heroes in the real world, like Hannibal of Carthage, Kathrine Dunham, Eve, the Queen of Sheba, Alexander Dumas, Mae Jemison, Prince, and Eve, the first human on Earth.
