Stars: Bill Cobbs, Spencer Tracy, Lynn Hamilton, Ruby Dee, Beah Richards
The documentary Beah: A Black Woman Speaks profiles the life of African-American actress Beah Richards. For the first time, he was nominated for an Oscar by acting in the movie Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and gained great fame all over the world.
Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., George DeNormand, Ivan Dixon, Bob Sweeney, David Susskind
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his place in life. He lives in his small apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother. He feels like a prisoner. This situation continues until a great fortune comes to them and...
Stars: Michael Ralph, Frankie Faison, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Nicholas Turturro
"Sal" (Aiello) is an Italian-American owner of a pizzeria in the black section of Brooklyn. On a hot day, "Sal"'s verbal confrontation with one of the familiar local blacks named "Baginout" (Esposito) leads to a crowd and a fight in the neighborhood.
Stars: John Rubinstein, Paul Winfield, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Barbara Barrie, Paul Koslo
The dramatization of Alex Haleys family line from post Civil War America to the writers search for his roots.
Stars: Roger Bart, Denzel Washington, John Ortiz, Armand Assante, Kevin Corrigan
Inspired by Fran Lucas' biography. A hated New York cop is assigned to arrest Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas.
Stars: Ted Lange, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Isaac Hayes, Erik Kilpatrick
A documentary with the performance of Stax Records artists such as Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, Staples singers, etc., performed an all-day concert at the Watts Summer Festival in 1972 with the financial support of Stax Records.
Stars: Beau Bridges, Thelma Ritter, Donna Mills, Ed McMahon, Gary Merrill
Late at night, two young surgeons take passengers hostage on a New York subway train...
Stars: James Garner, Russell Means, Quincy Jones, Marlon Brando, Ade
It is a documentary about Harry Belafonte, an American singer.
Stars: Betsy Blair, Fred Graham, Howard M. Mitchell, J. Louis Johnson, Ernest Anderson
A black doctor is assigned to treat two racist white brothers, when one of them dies, tensions rise to the point that it may cause a racial conflict...
Stars: Daphne Reid, Esther Rolle, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Sheldon Leonard, Tim Reid
Analysis of the evolution of the previous and unpleasant images of black people from 1948 to 1988, when they try to realize their dreams.
Stars: Robert DoQui, Anthony Chisholm, Juanita Moore, Dick Anthony Williams, Alan Oppenheimer
Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their own and...
Stars: Peter Brocco, Harry Cody, Dan Foster, Jonathan Hale, John Butler
A New York detective, traveling by train from "New York" to "Baltimore", tries to thwart the assassination plot of the presidential candidate, "Abraham Lincoln", who is on his way to give a historic speech in 1861 in "Baltimore"...
Stars: John Cassavetes, Val Avery, Jack Warden, Ruby Dee, Ruth White
The friendship between two New York dock workers, Axel Nordman, an ex-army, and Tommy Tyler, a truck operator, who have become friends, is threatened by the evil Charles Mellick.
Stars: Rachael Crawford, Peter Messaline, Peter Outerbridge, Aron Tager, Victor Ertmanis
A wealthy Black woman in Canada gets kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South.
Stars: Miguel Ferrer, Patrick Kilpatrick, Kevin Doyle, Sam Raimi, Ray McKinnon
After a deadly plague destroys most of the earth's population, the survivors are divided into two groups, one led by an old and benevolent human and the other by a malevolent one, to face each other in the final battle between good and evil...
Stars: Barney Fitzpatrick, Elise Neal, Christopher Mann, Hill Harper, Sharon Leal
The story is about a father who is trying to protect his daughter from the fact that she and her mother are addicted to drugs.
Stars: Walter Scott, Nita Talbot, Enrique Lucero, James McEachin, John Dierkes
A caravan guide and a rogue preacher try to save slaves forced into forced labor...
Stars: Halle Berry, Michael Imperioli, John Turturro, Illeana Douglas, Pamala Tyson
A successful, married black man has a secret affair with a white girl at work. He worries that the racial difference will ruin their relationship...
Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Victor Slezak, Ed Harris, Liz Torres, Daniel J. Travanti
A young black man named "Bobby Earl" (Underwood) is arrested for defaming and killing an eleven-year-old girl. Tony Brown (Fishburne), a black policeman, violently forces him to confess. Eight years later, a lawyer named "Paul Armstrong" (Connery) attacks police torture and racism in anti-black laws during a lecture at Harvard University, and Earl's mother (Dee) asks "Armstrong" to take over her son's case...
Stars: Halle Berry, Sean Nelson, Michael Ealy, Terrence Howard, Gabriel Casseus
The film tells the story of a woman named "Jane Crawford" who seeks happiness after several failed marriages and challenging the moral values of her small town.
