Zora Neale Hurston Movies

  • 2005
    Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Their Eyes Were Watching God

    5.62005HD

    A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the...

    Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • 2023
    Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

    Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

    Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

    52023HD

    Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She...

    Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
  • 1928
    Fieldwork Footage

    Fieldwork Footage

    Fieldwork Footage

    5.71928HD

    Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale...

    Fieldwork Footage
  • 2001
    The Gilded Six Bits

    The Gilded Six Bits

    The Gilded Six Bits

    02001HD

    The lives of a loving husband and wife collide with that of a wealthy hustler.

    The Gilded Six Bits
  • 2005
    Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy

    Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy

    Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy

    02005HD

    Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy
  • 1940
    Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

    Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

    Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

    6.41940HD

    Field recordings of religious services in a South Carolina Gullah community. Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 is a 1940...

    Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
  • 2008
    Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

    Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

    Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

    82008HD

    Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their...

    Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
  • 1929
    Ethnographic Films

    Ethnographic Films

    Ethnographic Films

    7.51929HD

    These documentary sketches were made when the famed novelist was an anthropology student seeking to preserve a record of African American life in the...

    Ethnographic Films