Haile Gerima’s ‘Ashes and Embers’ is streaming on Netflix

Array Releasing premieres Haile Gerima’s rarely-screened 1982 drama about a Vietnam war veteran struggling to come to terms with his role in the war and as a Black man in America – “Ashes and Embers.” The restored film is being released through a new initiative known as Array Classics, which has been created to introduce underseen and under-appreciated works of cinema to new audiences.

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— ARRAY (@ARRAYNow) March 5, 2016

“Ashes and Embers” premiered as part of the “Array @ The Broad” bi-monthly film series in Los Angeles, which will be followed by engagements at The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, NY with additional locations to be announced.