Urban America Television

Urban America Television (UATV) is a network in the United States.

Created and featuring independent produced programs, along with an documentry archive 1930s and 1940s public domainrace films .

Ad for The Homesteader (1919) emphasizing its black cast

The race film or race movie was a film type produced entirely in the United States between about 1915 and the early 1950s, consisting of films produced for an all-black audience, featuring black casts.

In all, approximately five hundred race films were produced. Of these, fewer than one hundred remain. Because race films were produced outside the Hollywood studio system, they were largely forgotten by mainstream film historians until they resurfaced in the 1980s.

In their day, race films were very popular among African American theatergoers. Their influence continues to be felt in cinema and television marketed to African Americans.