Breaking Three Hours: Trailblazing African American Women Marathoners is a 2022 feature length documentary film directed and written by Anthony Renard Reed. Nine USA-born, African American marathoners, who were inducted into the National Black Distance Running Hall of Fame, are interviewed for this movie. Since 1975, about 14 million people finished marathons in the USA. About two percent or 280,000 finished marathons in under three hours. Fewer than twenty of these sub-three-hour marathoners were African American women who were born in the USA. At the 1975 Boston Marathon, Marilyn Bevans became the first African American woman to run a sub-three hour marathon. The other interviewees are Alisa Harvey, Ella Willis-Glaze, Ingrid Eugenia Walters, Marilyn Bevans, Michele Bush-Cuke, Michele Tiff-Hill, Samia Akbar, Shawanna White, and Sika Henry. The chief videographer and editor was Kayla Key, who also was the voiceover for each of interviewee introductions. Bridgette L. Collins was the voice of Harriet Tubman and Nita Peters McKeethen was the trailer voiceover. The documentary and shorts received various awards at 2022 film festivals, including Seattle Film Festival - Best Sports Documentary Feature Film and Best Original Song for a Feature Film; The NewsFest True Stories International Film and Writers' Festival - Best Music, Best News Story/Public Information, and Best Short Documentary Under 13 Minutes; WRPN Women's International Film Festival - Exceptional Merit Award; and the New York Independent Cinema Awards - Award Nominee. It received official selections at the Toronto International Women's Film Festival, Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival, San Antonio Black International Film Festival, Visions of the Black Experience, and the Minute Madness Toronto Film Festival.
—Anthony Renard Reed