In 1970, Med Hondo, a Mauritanian-born French filmmaker renowned for his radical productions, released “Soleil O,” which seems to echo the sentiments of Frantz Fanon’s 1952 book “Black Skin, White...

Produced in two countries halfway across the world from each other and 15 years apart, one film and one limited series offer some of the most compelling discussions of pessimism and despair ever produced. “At...