Melvin Van Peebles created a new style of African-American filmmaking in 1971, when on a shoestring budget he made...
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2006
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In this video, viewers consider the work and life of Gordon Parks. Perhaps best known as a photojournalist, Parks was also a...
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2001
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This action drama puts a new spin on Shaft, one of the key "blaxploitation" films of the 1970s. John Shaft...
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2000
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Photographer, author, scriptwriter, and director, Gordon Parks' visions are captured in this video. ~ Rovi...
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Director
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1991
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One of the few documentaries to shine a spotlight on directors in Hollywood, this informative film sketches out the 50-year...
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1986
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Half Slave, Half Free is the reissue title for African-American director Gordon Parks' TV movie Solomon Northup's Odyssey....
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Director, Songwriter
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1984
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Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niepce made the first photograph in 1826, and Americans quickly took to the new technology, with...
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1976
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This biographical picture explores the troubled life of blues singer and master guitarist Leadbelly, who developed his style...
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Director
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1976
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"Batman and Robin" are the principal characters in the fact-based The Super Cops. Well, not the real Batman and Robin; these...
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Director
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1974
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Composer (Music Score), Director
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1972
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Richard Roundtree cuts a startlingly new and powerful heroic figure as John Shaft, "the cat who won't cop out, when there's...
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Director
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1971
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Gordon Parks' adaptation of his own novel The Learning Tree stars Kyle Johnson as Newt, a black teenager living in 1920s...
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Book Author, Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1969
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