Danny Glover Filmography

2012

Actors: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: Roland Emmerich delivers another large-scale disaster picture with 2012, a Sony Pictures Entertainment production detailing the year when many ancient scribes predicted that the world would end, with John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, and Oliver Platt filling Read More

Blindness

Actors: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura

Synopsis: The Constant Gardener director Fernando Meirelles joins forces with Canadian writer/director/actor Don McKellar to bring Portuguese Nobel Prize winner José Saramago's 1995 novel to the big screen in this large-scale philosophical thriller. An epidemic of blindness pushes society to the breaking Read More

Trouble the Water

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Relegated to the role of refugees in their own country the moment the levees broke, New Orleans residents Kimberly and Scott Roberts document their harrowing struggle against the forces of nature and the evils of man as they nobly attempt to rebuild their lives amidst one of the greatest natural Read More

Be Kind Rewind

Actors: Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow, Melonie Diaz

Synopsis: When a bumbling movie lover becomes magnetized while attempting to sabotage a local power plant and accidentally erases all of the videotapes in the small video store where his best friend works, the pair attempt to keep the store's loyal customer base by remaking as many of the top-renting movies Read More

Terra

Actors: Evan Rachel Wood, Luke Wilson, Amanda Peet, Dennis Quaid

Synopsis: Aristomenis Tsirbas' animated short film Terra concerns an alien who becomes obsessed with an object in the sky. Eventually, his need to discover what the object is far outweighs the risks he must endure to his safety in order to find out. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Salt of This Sea

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis, Shelly Goral

Synopsis: A woman confronts the realities of life in the occupied Palestinian territories in this drama. While she was born and raised in New York, Soraya (Suheir Hammad) is of Palestinian heritage and has long dreamed of returning to the land of her ancestors. When Soraya learns that her grandfather Read More

Read You Like a Book

Actors: Tony Amendola, Barbara Crampton, Catalina Larranaga, Lorenzo Pisoni, Karen Black

Synopsis: A whistle-blowing doctor hides incriminating information in a magical book with the power to transform all who come onto contact with it, prompting unwanted attention from the heavies at a powerful pharmaceutical company and setting five unwitting strangers on a strange collision course. Bookstore Read More

Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare - The Rematch of the Century

Actors: Jay Leno, Danny Glover, Drake Bell, Vivica A. Fox, Keke Palmer

Synopsis: The imaginative producers at the Jim Henson Company update the age-old story of The Tortoise and the Hare in this award winning animated adventure featuring the voices of Jay Leno, Danny Glover, Vivica A. Fox, and Keke Palmer. With his "slow and steady" philosophy, Mr. Tortoise may have crossed Read More

Honeydripper

Actors: Danny Glover, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Keb' Mo', Yaya DaCosta, Charles S. Dutton, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Kel Mitchell

Synopsis: Tyrone (Danny Glover) is the proprietor of the Honeydripper juke joint. When business at the once-popular club begins to trail off and Tyrone hires unpredictable electric guitarist Sonny (Gary Clark, Jr.) against his better judgment, Tyrone's last-ditch bid to draw in crowds during harvest time Read More

Shooter

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Danny Glover, Kate Mara, Elias Koteas

Synopsis: A top Marine sniper who previously abandoned the military after a routine mission gave way to tragedy is double-crossed by the government after reluctantly being pressured back into service in Training Day director Antoine Fuqua's adaptation of Stephen Hunter's novel Point of Impact. There was a Read More

Bamako

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Aïssa Maïga, Tiécoura Traoré, Tiecoura Tracore, Hélène Diarra, Habib Dembélé, Djénéba Koné

Synopsis: Abderrahmane Sissako wrote and directed this offbeat, satiric comedy which imagines how the powers that be in the West might be forced to answer for the damage they've done in the Third World. Mele (Aissa Maiga) is an attractive Malian lounge singer married to Chaka (Tiecoura Traore), though their Read More

Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation

Actors: Carl Lumbly, Danny Glover, Joel Haikali, Chrisjan Appollus, Obed Emvula

Synopsis: Charles Burnett's Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation tells the rise to power of Samuel Nujoma (Carl Lumbly), a prominent leader in Namibia's struggle for independence from South Africa, and that country's first president. Opening when Nujoma was 16 years old and the country is under constant Read More

Africa Unite

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Rita Marley, Danny Glover, Angelique Kidjo, Lauryn Hill, Ziggy Marley

Synopsis: In this concert staged on what would have been reggae legend Bob Marley's sixtieth birthday, a whole host of musicians gather in historic Meskel Square of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for a twelve hour concert presented to highlight Marley's timeless message of universal unity and understanding. In Read More

Poor Boy's Game

Actors: Rossif Sutherland, Danny Glover, Greg Bryk, Flex Alexander, Laura Regan

Synopsis: Released from prison after serving ten years for pummeling his opponent to the point of inflicting severe brain damage, working class pugilist Donnie Rose (Rossif Sutherland) finds his efforts to start life anew complicated by simmering racism and long-suppressed vengeance. In the aftermath of Read More

Dreamgirls

Actors: Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson, Danny Glover, Anika Noni Rose, Keith Robinson, Sharon Leal

Synopsis: Director Bill Condon brings Tom Eyen's Tony award-winning Broadway musical to the big screen in a tale of dreams, stardom, and the high cost of success in the cutthroat recording industry. The time is the 1960s, and singers Effie (Jennifer Hudson), Lorrell (Anika Noni Rose), and Deena (Beyoncé Knowles Read More

Barnyard

Actors: Kevin James, Courteney Cox Arquette, Sam Elliott, Danny Glover, Wanda Sykes

Synopsis: A cow learns to walk like a man, both literally and figuratively, in this computer-animated comedy written and directed by Steve Oedekerk, the creator of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Ben (voice of Sam Elliott) is a cow who for years has been the leader and sober voice of reason among the animals at Read More

The Shaggy Dog

Actors: Tim Allen, Robert Downey, Jr., Kristin Davis, Danny Glover, Spencer Breslin

Synopsis: An unexpected transformation helps a workaholic attorney learn that there's more to life than the courtroom in this remake of the 1959 Disney canine classic of the same name. Deputy District Attorney Dave Douglas (Tim Allen) takes his job in the halls of justice very seriously -- so seriously in Read More

Manderlay

Actors: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach de Bankolé, Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Michael Abiteboul

Synopsis: The politics of slavery and the follies of nation-building highlight Danish director Lars von Trier's thought-provoking follow-up to the director's 2003 drama Dogville, featuring The Village's Bryce Dallas Howard in the role originally played by Nicole Kidman, and shot in the same stage-bound Read More

The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

Synopsis: The timeless tales of Uncle Remus come to life as never before as Brer Fox, Brer Bear, and the mischievous Brer Rabbit hip hop their way into children's hearts in an animated adventure featuring the vocals talents of Danny Glover, D.L. Hughley, Wanda Sykes, Wayne Brady, and Nick Cannon. Brer Read More

Aristide and the Endless Revolution

Actors: Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Synopsis: Jean-Bertrand Aristide was the first democratically elected president of Haiti, a nation long marked by political instability and corruption, but while the former Catholic priest was voted in as a friend of the poor and the disadvantaged, staying in office proved to be his greatest challenge. Aristide Read More

Missing in America

Actors: Danny Glover, Linda Hamilton, David Strathairn, Ron Perlman, Zoë Weizenbaum

Synopsis: A reclusive Vietnam veteran finds his quiet life thrown into chaos upon receiving an unexpected visitor in this tale of friendship and healing starring Danny Glover, Linda Hamilton, and Ron Perlman. Though 35 years have passed since Jake (Glover) returned to American soil after fighting in the Read More

The Exonerated

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Aidan Quinn, Danny Glover, Brian Dennehy, Delroy Lindo

Synopsis: Adapted by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen from their own off-Broadway play, The Exonerated dramatizes the real-life stories of six innocent citizens who spent anywhere from three to 20 years on death row until DNA testing proved that they had all been falsely convicted. Each of the six stories is Read More

Saw

Actors: Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Ken Leung, Dina Meyer

Synopsis: The directorial debut from filmmaker James Wan, this psychological thriller comes from the first screenplay by actor Leigh Whannell, who also stars. Whannell plays Adam, one of two men chained up in a mysterious chamber. The other, Dr. Gordon (Cary Elwes), like Adam, has no idea how either of them Read More

The Cookout

Actors: Danny Glover, Jenifer Lewis, Ja Rule, Tim Meadows, Storm P, Meagan Good

Synopsis: When Todd Anderson (Storm P) signs a 30-million-dollar contract with the New Jersey Nets after being named the number one NBA draft pick of the year, his mother (Jenifer Lewis) vows to prevent her son from forgetting his roots. Not used to balancing his new life with his old, Todd mistakenly Read More

The Peace! DVD

Actors: Harry Belafonte, Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, Ossie Davis, Danny Glover

Synopsis: A pair of pacifist-minded documentarians reach out to dozens of their generation's greatest thinkers in a bid to ensure a peaceful future for all in this documentary that encourages viewers to take an active role in the peace process. From September 2002 to May 2003, filmmakers Gabriele Zamparini Read More

Earthsea

Actors: Shawn Ashmore, Kristin Kreuk, Isabella Rossellini, Danny Glover, Sebastian Roche, Chris Gauthier, Jennifer Calvert, Mark Hildreth

Synopsis: Lord of the Rings fans take note, acclaimed fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin's epic tale of wizardry and prophecy comes to life as never before in director Robert Lieberman's imaginative screen adaptation of her popular Earthsea novels. Adapted for the Sci-Fi Channel, the two-part miniseries Read More

Good Fences

Crew: Producer

Actors: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Zachary Simmons Glover, Ryan Michelle Bathe, Ashley Archer

Synopsis: A black family gets a first-hand look at the trials and tribulations of upward mobility and suburban segregation in this pointed comedy. In 1973, Tom (Danny Glover) is an African-American attorney who is determined to raise himself up by his own bootstraps from his position near the bottom of the Read More

The John Garfield Story

Actors: Julie Garfield

Synopsis: According to this made-for-cable documentary, stage and film star John Garfield set the standard for naturalistic acting that blazed the trail for such future "method" types as Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro. Lovingly narrated by Garfield's actress daughter, Julie Garfield, the film details the Read More

The Art of Romare Bearden

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Danny Glover

Synopsis: Romare Bearden is widely regarded as one of the most gifted and visionary American artists of his generation, and among the most important African-American visual artists of the 20th century. Best known for his work in collage, in which he captured both the sights and the energies of the various Read More

The Forts and Castles of Ghana

Synopsis: Narrated by respected actor Danny Glover, The Forts and Castles of Ghana offers a tour of ancient structures in the African country. Many of these buildings date back to the days of the slave trade. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

The Real Eve

Synopsis: The made-for-cable documentary film The Real Eve is predicated on the theory that the human race can be traced to a common ancestor. The mitochondrial DNA of one prehistoric woman, who lived in Africa, has according to this theory been passed down from generation to generation over a span of Read More

The Royal Tenenbaums

Actors: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson

Synopsis: Director Wes Anderson and his longtime friend and writing partner Owen Wilson follow up Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) with this similarly offbeat comedy about a dysfunctional family reunion. Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) was a successful attorney who had three children with his wife Read More

3 A.M.

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Danny Glover, Pam Grier, Michelle Rodriguez, Sergej Trifunovic, Sarita Choudhury

Synopsis: New York City may be the city that never sleeps, but that means some people have to stay awake all night to look after the folks whose days begin after the sun goes down; this made-for-premium-cable drama looks at a group of cabbies trying to get by while working the night shift. The Lady Luck Cab Read More

Civil War Journal: West Point Classmates, Civil War Enemies

Synopsis: This video is part of an acclaimed series from the History Channel that chronicles the American Civil War. The series, narrated by Danny Glover, uses archival photographs, diaries, articles, reenactments, and scholarly commentary to tell the story of the War Between the States. Many of the Read More

Just a Dream

Crew: Director

Actors: Rodney Grant, Amy Madigan, Ally Sheedy, Robby Benson, Carl Lumbly, Jeremy Sumpter

Synopsis: A wide-eyed young boy finds his small-town life turned upside down in the feature directorial debut from actor Danny Glover. Jeremy Sumpter of Frailty stars as Henry, a youngster in rural America who dreams of Hollywood when a big-studio movie crew comes to town to shoot a new picture. Also Read More

Ennis' Gift

Civil War Journal: Robert E. Lee

Synopsis: This video is part of an acclaimed series from the History Channel that chronicles the American Civil War. The series, narrated by Danny Glover, uses archival photographs, diaries, articles, reenactments, and scholarly commentary to tell the story of the War Between the States. This volume Read More

Boesman & Lena

Actors: Angela Bassett, Danny Glover

Synopsis: Angela Bassett and Danny Glover star in this gripping film adaptation of Athol Fugard's renowned play. Though written during the apex of apartheid and first staged in 1970, director John Berry downplays the work's historical background and strips the play of its poetic symbolism, lending the film Read More

Freedom Song

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Danny Glover, Vicellous Shannon, Loretta Devine, Glynn E. Turman

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie focuses on the grassroots efforts of a Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to combat the entrenched racism of the segregated South. The film focuses on Owen Walker (Vicellus Reon Shannon), a youth who longs to address the injustices of his hometown in rural Read More

Scared Straight! 20 Years Later

The Prince of Egypt

Actors: Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: Dreamworks Pictures has taken the biblical story of Exodus, put it into cartoon form, and released it on the big screen as an epic animated feature. The Prince of Egypt tells the story of Moses releasing the Jews from Egyptian slavery under the hand of the evil pharaoh Rameses. Think of The Ten Commandments Read More

Beloved

Actors: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Beah Richards

Synopsis: Jonathan Demme directed this adaptation of Toni Morrison's fact-based fifth novel (winner of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize), written in an experimental stream-of-consciousness flow and capturing the impact and aftermath of slavery on the human soul. In 1873, middle-aged Sethe (Oprah Winfrey) lives near Read More

Antz

Actors: Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone, Gene Hackman, Christopher Walken

Synopsis: DreamWorks and Pacific Data Images collaborated on this all computer-animated comedy-adventure about the ant angst of misfit worker ant, Z (voice of Woody Allen), who feels trapped by the conformist confines of his totalitarian ant civilization and eventually sets forth in search of Insectopia. Read More

Lethal Weapon 4

Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock

Synopsis: Detectives Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) reteamed for their fourth foray together in this buddy-cop action-comedy series based on characters created by Shane Black. With the passage of years, Murtagh's daughter Rianne (Traci Wolfe) is now about to upgrade Murtagh to Read More

Life By the Numbers: Chances of a Lifetime - Probability

Life By the Numbers: Patterns of Nature - Biology

Life By the Numbers: Shape of the World - Exploration

Life By the Numbers: Seeing is Believing - Special Effects

Life By the Numbers: The Numbers Game - Sports

Life By the Numbers: Making a Difference - Education

Life By the Numbers: A New Age - Information Age

Story of a People, Vol. 4: Affirmative Action on Trial

Synopsis: In this episode of Story of a People, Danny Glover hosts an in-depth look at the issues surrounding affirmative action. All sides of the issue are given equal time. The same weight is assigned affirmative action's triumphs and its failures. Through interviews with people from a wide variety of Read More

Story of a People, Vol. 2: Black Youth

Wild America

Actors: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Devon Sawa, Scott Bairstow, Frances Fisher, Jamey Sheridan

Synopsis: Based on the true saga of the Stouffer brothers, this movie is an unusual combination of comedy film and nature documentary. In the 1960s in rural Arkansas, Marty Stouffer (Jamey Sheridan) grooms his three sons to take over the family auto parts business. But the sons are more interested in Read More

Gone Fishin'

Actors: Joe Pesci, Danny Glover, Rosanna Arquette, Lynn Whitfield, Willie Nelson

Synopsis: Just how much trouble can two guys get into while trying to catch some fish? Joe Waters (Joe Pesci) and Gus Green (Danny Glover) are two guys from New Jersey who've known each other since childhood; they've always been friends, and they've always been inept to the point of posing a threat to life Read More

Street Soldiers

Switchback

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Danny Glover, Jared Leto, R. Lee Ermey, Ted Levine

Synopsis: Scripter Jeb Stuart (Die Hard) made his directorial debut with this thriller about an FBI agent in pursuit of a serial killer. Politically ambitious Amarillo police chief Jack McGinnis (William Fichtner) uses a local murder to gain votes in his campaign, a setback for Sheriff Buck Olmstead (R. Lee Ermey Read More

Buffalo Soldiers

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Danny Glover, Bob Gunton, Carl Lumbly, Tom Bower, Gabriel Casseus

Synopsis: Frank Military and Susan Rhinehart scripted this western, a look back at the post-Civil War Black cavalry troops known as the Buffalo Soldiers, the fierce fighting unit previously covered in a PBS four-parter (1970) and an NBC pilot (1979). In the New Mexico Territory, ex-slave Sgt. Wyatt (Danny Glover Read More

Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life and Music of Robert Johnson

Actors: Danny Glover, Keb' Mo'

Synopsis: A mix of new interviews with old footage and recordings, this documentary, narrated by Danny Glover, highlights legendary Mississippi blues guitarist-singer Robert Johnson (1911-38). Kevin Moore (who records as Keb Mo) appears as Johnson in narrated reenactment sequences, and producer Don Law is Read More

The Rainmaker

Actors: Matt Damon, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Mickey Rourke

Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola is both scripter and director of this drama adapted from the John Grisham novel about broke, inexperienced Memphis law-school graduate Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon), ready to take any job he can find. Signing on with slimy Bruiser Stone (Mickey Rourke), he learns ambulance-chasing Read More

Images & Realities: The African American Family

Synopsis: This program examines the history and traditions of the African-American family and takes a look at contemporary family life, considering stressful situations such as economic pressure, rising health care costs, divorce, and the complications of raising children in a culture where the effects of Read More

America's Dream

Actors: Danny Glover, Wesley Snipes

Synopsis: Made especially for the HBO cable network, this well-wrought feature is comprised of three short stories by three noted black American authors, each of which is directed by a respected black director. The first tale, Long Black Song, was written by Richard Wright and is set in Alabama, 1938. It Read More

Deadly Voyage

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Omar Epps, Joss Ackland, David Suchet, Sean Pertwee, Jean-Claude LaMarre

Synopsis: This made-for-cable thriller stars Omar Epps as Ofusu, one of nine asylum-seeking African refugees who sneak aboard a Russian cargo vessel en route to France