Films

• Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues (29 minutes, 1982)
  Produced & Directed with Peter Webster
• Ethnic Notions (56 minutes, 1987)
• Tongues Untied (55 minutes, 1989)
• Affirmations (10 minutes, 1990)
• Anthem (8 minutes, 1991)
• Color Adjustment (87 minutes, 1991)
• Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regret) (38 minutes, 1992)
• Black Is…Black Ain’t (86 minutes, 1995)

Selected Awards

• California College of Arts and Crafts, Honorary Doctorate George Foster Peabody Award
• 1988  Berlin Film Festival, Best Documentary
• 1989 AMFAR Award for Courage American Film Institute, Maya Daren Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1992 Sundance Film Festival Organization of American Historians, Erik Barnouw Award
• 1992 International Documentary Association, Outstanding Achievement Award
• 1992 National Black Programming Consortium, Oscar Micheaux Award
• 1992 Hetrix Martin, Annual Emery Award
• San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Frameline Award
• 1992 People of Color Against AIDS Network Award ,Los Angeles Film Critics Association
• American Film and Video Festival Black Filmmaker’s Hall of Fame, 1989