Actress Lisa Gay Hamilton makes her directorial debut with the documentary Beah: A Black Woman Speaks, a biography of actress...
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2003
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Baby Suggs
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1998
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1995
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Despite orders from Hicks (CCH Pounder), Benton (Eriq La Salle) is determined to stay awake throughout a 48-hour shift, with...
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1995
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1995
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In this Emmy award-winning episode, Greene (Anthony Edwards) takes a potentially career-destroying risk after he misdiagnoses...
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1995
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Oscar-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino directed this episode, which contains all manner of characteristic black comedy...
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1995
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New ER boss Dr. Swift (Michael Ironside) requests (read: "demands") that Greene discuss the OR death of Jodi O'Brien death...
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1995
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Michael Ironside makes his first appearance as new ER chief Dr. William Swift, who immediately sets the staff on its ear with...
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1995
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In this drama, a woman attempts to recover following a bout of schizophrenia. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1994
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1994
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Season one of Hearts Afire takes place in Washington D.C., where transplanted Southerner John Hartman (John Ritter) has...
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1992
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When a self-involved real estate agent is given fifty hours of community service to do by a judge, he becomes the coach for...
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1991
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In New Orleans, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) attends the funeral of a legendary jazz musician. She also gets involved in a...
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1991
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Lloyd Bridges stars as a newspaper chief in this made-for-television movie about life in big-city journalism. This fast-paced...
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1990
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Linda Cervi
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1989
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The operative word in Drugstore Cowboy is "drug". Matt Dillon plays the leader of a group of dopeheads who wander around the...
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1989
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Jessica (Angela Lansbury) heads Southward to visit an old friend, celebrated playwright Eugene McLendon (Barry Nelson)....
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1988
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Consumed by grief when his father is felled by a heart attack, 11-year-old Obie (Ricky Busker) runs away from his white,...
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1987
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Agoraphobia (Greek for "fear of the marketplace") is the focus of this drama starring Elliott Gould as Jimmy Morgan. Morgan...
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1987
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Season Four of Hunter begins as police detectives Hunter (Fred Dryer) and McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) investigate the seemingly...
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1987
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As Summers Die was produced as an "HBO Premiere" attraction. Set in the segregationist South of the 1950s, the film pits the...
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1986
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The manager of a chemical plant and a city manager rise up against their respective bosses to keep a town safe in this...
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1986
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Ambitious journalist Isabel Turette (Anne-Marie Johnson) has parlayed a string of skid-row murders into a spectacular,...
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1986
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Set on the last day of 1999, Generation takes place during a family reunion. Richard Beymer plays an inventor who has created...
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1985
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High-school basketball star Brian Baldwin (Glenn Michael Jones) has been assured a hefty scholarship to the college of his...
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1985
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The three-part TV miniseries The Sophisticated Gents covers 25 years in the lives of a group of close friends. Nine...
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1981
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A Christmas Without Snow originally premiered December 9, 1980. The title refers to the film's setting: the snowless San...
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1980
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A rare TV project from animator Don Bluth, Banjo the Woodpile Cat begins in somewhere in the Great Midwest, where the title...
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Zazu
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1979
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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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Ring of Passion is a self-described "docudrama" of the professional rivalry between African-American boxing great Joe Louis...
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1978
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Originally telecast September 14, 1976, as a CBS "General Electric Theater" special, Just an Old Sweet Song was the first of...
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1976
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Directed by Berry Gordy, Jr. as a vehicle for his star Diana Ross, Mahogany traces the life of a poor girl who makes it in...
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Florence
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1975
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Created by Earl Hamner, A Dream for Christmas is set in the 1950s. African-American minister Will Douglas (Hari Rhodes) moves...
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1973
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In this drama, a doctor becomes a vigilante to keep adolescent gang members from destroying the peace of his neighborhood. ~...
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1973
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In this touching adventure, a remake of the popular 1940 film, two Georgia boys ignore their racial differences to team up...
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Charity Tomlin
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1972
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Recuperating from a broken arm suffered in an accident, Fred (Redd Foxx) is unable to do any housework. To alleviate the...
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Aunt Ethel
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1972
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In this sports drama, a small college, desperate for a grid iron win, hires an ultra tough new coach. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1972
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1972
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In this first episode of Sanford and Son's second season, junk dealer Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx) yearns for the "good old days"...
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Aunt Ethel
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1972
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Although the characters' names were changed, The Great White Hope was a thinly veiled account of the trials and tribulations...
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1970
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Season Thee of Ironside begins as wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Burr) and his team set their sighs...
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1969
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The winner of the 1967 Oscar for Best Picture (as well as four other Oscars), In the Heat of the Night is set in a small...
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1967
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Mrs. Prentice
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1967
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Otto Preminger directed this star-studded adaptation of K.B. Gliden's novel about racial prejudice and emotional unrest in...
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1967
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This film version of the successful stage play was written by and stars Ossie Davis as Purlie Victorious, a flamboyant, self...
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1963
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1962
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Young (19-year-old) reggae and rhythm-and-blues singer Johnny Nash stars in this conventional coming-of-age story about a...
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1959
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