Through the Door of No Return
1997, English. Directed by Shirikiana Aina.
In a personal quest, filmmaker Shirikiana Aina made this documentary capturing her efforts to learn more about her father, who died when she was a child. A Michigan man descended from slaves, he was labeled a radical by the FBI. Aina traveled to Ghana, documenting an oral history of slavery in Elmina, a port where Africans were warehoused before shipping to the New World. She also filmed African-Americans who have established a colony in Ghana, choosing to raise their families there.
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Through the Door of No Return isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 6 September 1997. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Through the Door of No Return?
Through the Door of No Return (1997) was directed by Shirikiana Aina.