West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty: Torrents of Fire, Torrents of Blood (opens in new tab)

Over the course of four decades, the great Mauritanian French filmmaker Med Hondo created a stylistically diverse, politically trenchant body of work that frequently tapped into his own Pan-African roots and explored the existential and material stresses of Black people across the African diaspora. Hondo channeled his love for them—and his untrammeled fury at their oppression—into the creation of wholly singular films like Soleil Ô (1970), Sarraounia (1986), and his towering masterpiece, West...