When a powerful new street drug opens the gateway for an inter-dimensional invasion, the only two people on the planet...
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2012
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A black comedy about a big-moneymaking management consultant and his high-rolling, low-ethics team known as the Pod. ~ Ray...
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2012
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2011
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Christina Aguilera makes her dramatic feature debut as Ali, a small-town singer who takes her shot at stardom performing at a...
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2010
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A Los Angeles detective races to bust a group of notorious thieves before they can carry out a 20-million-dollar heist in...
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2010
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This independently produced drama from director Andrew P. Jones travels back to the Great Depression of the 1930s. It tells...
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Clarence
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2010
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Halle Berry hosts this eye-opening account of the African-American contribution to the United States military, beginning...
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2010
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David Simon's masterful social commentary went back to school, quite literally, in the fourth season, which focuses on...
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2006
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2006
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Dr. Frank Hopper
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2005
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Season three of The Wire continues the series' even-handed dissection of the Baltimore "drug wars," as seen through the eyes...
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2004
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While many celebrities believe their fame gives them good luck with the opposite gender, one man with a successful television...
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2001
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A cast of distinguished veterans and promising newcomers headline this stark prison drama from first-time writer-director...
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2000
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This military drama is based on the true story of Carl Brashear, who was the first African-American to serve as a diver in...
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2000
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This made-for-TV movie focuses on the grassroots efforts of a Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to combat the...
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T-Bone Lanier
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2000
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A lengthy spell of calm weather may cost professional stormchaser Calvin (Randall Batinkoff) his job with the National Severe...
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2000
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1999
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Terry McMillan and Ron Bass wrote this screenplay based on McMillan's semi-autobiographical best-selling novel (over...
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1998
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1997
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Charming comedy about a 16-year-old boy coming of age on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1976. ~ Nicole Gagne, Rovi...
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Spencer Phillips
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1994
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Coproduced by two cable-TV servies-The Family Channel and the Black Entertainment Network--Race to Freedom: The Underground...
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1994
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Dean Davenport (Jenifer Lewis) assigns her students to write a hypothetical conversation between Martin Luther King and...
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Director
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1993
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Laurence Fishburne plays no-nonsense LAPD narc Russell Stevens, Jr., who has worked all his life to expunge the memory of his...
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1992
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The pressures of earning a living are driving newlyweds Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) and Whitley (Jasmine Guy) apart. Out of...
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Director
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1992
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Freddie (Cree Summer) is visited by a man (Victor Love) identifying himself as her prison pen-pal Jamal. Finding out that...
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Director
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1992
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Whitley (Jasmine Guy) goes power-mad when placed in charge of the Alpha Delta Rho sorority pledges, prompting Kim (Charnele...
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Director
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1991
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1991
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Part one of a set containing gospel performances. ~ Rovi...
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1990
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Part two of a set containing gospel performances. ~ Rovi...
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1990
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It's official -- the formerly self-centered Hillman College graduate Whitley Gilbert (Jasmine Guy) is definitely in love with...
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1990
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This time, the spotlight is on a friend of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury--namely, Bill Boyle (Ken Howard), a former...
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1989
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As the third season of A Different World rolls around, Hillman College's venerable Gilbert Hall is now a coed dorm. Lettie...
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1989
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Season two of A Different World finds the overall quality of the series improving immensely, which many insiders attributed...
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1988
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This teen thriller by Richard Tuggle involves an innocent young man being mistaken for a drug dealer and thief by both the...
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Lt. Delgado
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1986
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The 60-minute comedy Ask Max stars Jeff B. Cohen in the title role. A 12-year-old genius, poor Max is a washout socially. To...
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1986
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The full title of this made-for-TV film is Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom. But don't be put off by this...
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1985
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The setting is New Orleans, where a prominent jazz musician is killed onstage in full view of a nightclub audience. It turns...
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1985
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Previously titled Trick Eyes and Portrait of a John, this lurid made-for-TV movie is the story of Christopher Jordan (William...
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1984
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"Don't expose him to bright light. Don't ever get him wet. And don't ever, ever feed him after midnight." This sage advice is...
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1984
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A former prison inmate finds he can't leave his violent past behind in this sequel to the cult favorite Penitentiary. After...
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Charles
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1982
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A new life with his grandmother in the rural South causes changes in a young boy. ~ Rovi...
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1981
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Thornwell was based on a documentary directed by Harry Moses, which formed the nucleus of a 60 Minutes piece. Moses also...
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1981
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Attica is a probing, no-nonsense TV-movie re-creation of the tragic events which followed the Attica (New York) Correctional...
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1980
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Fourteen-year-old Jake Wrather (Larry B. Scott) is third baseman for his sandlot ball team -- and in the absence of an adult...
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Uncle Lenny
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1978
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The longest (26-1/2 hours), most expensive ($25 million) and most complicated (four directors, five producers, five...
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1978
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Kim Basinger was best known as a model when she starred in the made-for-TV Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold. She plays a...
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1978
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In 1978, African American Charlie Smith was 134 years old. So far as anyone could determine, this Florida nursing home...
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1978
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Adapted from Alice Childress' inspirational novel of the same name, director Ralph Nelson's sentimental addiction drama tells...
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Nigeria
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1977
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Not to be confused with a 1945 film musical of the same title, Minstrel Man is a made-for-TV chronicle of two...
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1977
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The Serpent's Egg, or Das Schlangenei is director Ingmar Bergman's second English language production (The Touch was his...
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1977
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This stylish and very entertaining blend of the horror and "Blaxploitation" genres takes some creative risks on a seriously...
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Ike
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1976
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River Niger is a Tony Award-winning play turned to a movie. It features James Earl Jones as a house-painter/poet who...
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Jeff Williams
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1976
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Michael Schultz directed this deeply felt recollection of adolescent life on Chicago's near North Side in 1964. Like...
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Preach
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1975
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Based on a Joseph Wambaugh story, this police drama centers on tough, aging cop Bumper Morgan's search for the man who killed...
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1975
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The Together Brothers is a Galveston, Texas, teenaged gang, populated by blacks and Chicanos. A popular police officer is...
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1974
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Thomasine and Bushrod was intended as the African American counterpart to Bonnie and Clyde, the difference being that the...
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1974
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Five on the Black Hand Side was released at a time when most black-oriented films were bloody action fests. In contrast, this...
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1973
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1972
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The producers of In Search of America never declared outright that the made-for-TV film was intended as a series pilot, but...
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1971
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1969
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The pastor at a small Baptist church harbors a dark secret that could turn his congregation against him, and herald the end...
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