She is the co-director with Clifford Ward of Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who Sat by the Door, a feature-length documentary about the controversial, FBI-repressed 1973 The Spook Who Sat by the Door. The Spook Who Sat by the Door is the film adaptation of Sam Greenlee's 1969 novel by the same name, and is widely hailed as a cult classic and one of the most important underground black productions of the era. Acham is also the author of Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power (University of Minnesota Press, 2005).