Poet Maya Angelou made her feature directorial debut with this African-American family drama, shown theatrically but...
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Earl
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1998
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1996
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The fiancée of assistant district attorney Ed Danvers (Zeljko Ivanek) is shot and killed while shopping for her wedding...
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1996
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Russert (Isabella Hoffman) suspects that her new partner is at the end of his rope -- and is abusing his wife as a result of...
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1995
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1995
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Bigotry and values are questioned when a Black West Point cadet is singled out and harassed by fellow cadets and senior...
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1994
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Writer-director Spike Lee's epic portrayal of the life and times of the slain civil rights leader Malcolm X begins with the...
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Elijah Muhammad
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1992
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Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) comes to the defense of his secretary friend in this made-for-TV production. ~ John Bush, Rovi...
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1990
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Originally scheduled to air on October 11, 1990, this Law & Order episode was bumped forward to November 20 of that year. The...
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1990
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A judge becomes guilt-ridden after a technicality forces him to release a band of murderous crooks in this crime thriller....
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1988
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Hoping to relive his glory days as "Combustible Huxtable", Cliff (Bill Cosby) jumps at the chance to reunite his old college...
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1985
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In the first of a series of made-for-TV films shot two decades after the original Perry Mason television series ended in...
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1985
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This tribute to the late Lorraine Hansberry is featured in this video. Learn of her experiences as a black artist in...
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1981
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The phenomenal success of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots all but demanded a sequel to writer Alex Haley's epic story of his...
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1979
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This drama, financed by DST Communications, a subsidiary of Delta Sigma Theta, the world's largest black sorority, centers...
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Screenwriter
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1976
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Kojak (Telly Savalas) is both angered and frustrated when a known child molester is set free because he is protected by...
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1976
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This tense, tragic drama underscores the horrors of racism in America: not only that perpetuated by whites, but also by...
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Director
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1971
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Having tried and failed to produce the David Westheimer novel and play My Sweet Charlie as a theatrical film,...
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1970
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Jason Higgs (Sidney Poitier) is an angry black man who plans to rob a factory payroll. With the help of his accomplices...
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1969
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This decidedly different war movie follows Maj. Abraham Falconer (Burt Lancaster), a tired, one-eyed Army officer, as he...
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1969
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Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) issues an A.P.B. for Ralph Stuart (Jeffrey Hunter), a Red agent wanted for murder and...
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1968
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1968
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Nearly 20 years after it opened on Broadway, the E.Y. Harburg/Fred Saidy musical Finian's Rainbow was committed to film. Set...
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1968
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Clay
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1966
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1966
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A midwestern hayseed takes on the Big Apple in this comedy. He goes because he is tired of running a chicken farm and thinks...
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1964
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The crew of the USS Reluctant is at it again in this comedy sequel to Mister Roberts. The story opens toward the end of WWII...
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1964
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Black Like Me is the true story of white journalist John Howard Griffin, who "became" a Negro in the late 1950s. Feeling that...
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Tom Newcomb
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1964
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Although limited by a low-budget, this is a respectable wartime drama by director John A. Bushelman, set on the front lines...
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1961
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Race hatred and drug trafficking threaten to tear apart a California high school in this teen drama. Frank White (Mark Damon)...
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1960
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