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Actors: Tom Brokaw, Andy Young, Harry Belafonte, Bill Clinton, Condoleezza Rice
Synopsis: Celebrated newsman Tom Brokaw headlines this feature-length, eponymous documentary portrait of the life of revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.. A program originally produced for cable's History Channel to commemorate the 40th anniversary of King's death, it affords equal attention Read More
Actors: Harry Belafonte, Joy Bryant, Nick Cannon, Sharon Stone, Emilio Estevez, Laurence Fishburne
Synopsis: Twenty-two people become unwitting participants in a tragic and defining moment of the 1960's in this period drama from actor and director Emilio Estevez. It's early June in 1968, and the California presidential primary elections are occupying the minds of many in the Golden State, with Robert F. Read More
Actors: Harry Belafonte
Synopsis: Academy Award-nominated director Spike Lee (the guiding force behind the critically acclaimed documentary 4 Little Girls) turns to nonfiction filmmaking once again with the heart-wrenching marathon work When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, produced by Lee's Forty Acres and a Mule Read More
Actors: Gabriel Retes, Lourdes Elizarraras, Daisy Granados, Jorge Perugorria, Salvatore Basile
Synopsis: Experience the true personification of courage as Russell Simmons' Higher Self Series brings home the tales of African-American icons who refused to take no for an answer and forever altered the course of American history. From Harry Belafonte's valiant efforts to reveal the truth during the Read More
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
Actors: Mighty Sparrow, Calypso Rose, Lord Superior, Mighty Duke, Black Stalin
Synopsis: This documentary from filmmaker Geoffrey Dunn explores the history of calypso music in Trinidad and Tobago. Featuring performances by such seminal acts as Mighty Sparrow, Calypso Rose, Lord Superior, Brother Valentino, Regeneration Now, and Mystic Prowler, Calypso Dreams also includes archival Read More
Actors: Vlasta Vrana
Synopsis: Fidel Castro is one of the world's best known and most recognizable political leaders, but he is also among the most mysterious. While Castro became a household name after overthrowing the rule of Fulgenico Batista and became the head of Cuba's new socialist government, little is known of his Read More
Synopsis: Quincy Jones has worn many hats during his fifty-plus years in the music business -- sideman, soloist, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, producer, film composer. film producer -- and has worked with a who's who of American music, from Count Basie and Tommy Dorsey to Dizzy Gilespie and Miles Davis Read More
Actors: Bill Maher, Tom Smothers, Dick Smothers, Joan Baez, Rob Reiner
Synopsis: With their blend of folk singing and stand-up comedy, Tom and Dick Smothers became a popular nightclub attraction in the early 1960's and were frequent guests on many television variety shows of the day. In 1967, in a bid to win younger viewers away from NBC's perennially popular western series Read More
Crew: Featured Music
Actors: Jamaica Kincaid
Synopsis: In 1962, Jamaica won its independence from the United Kingdom, and the island nation, which had long struggled with poverty, attempted to use its agricultural resources in order to create a sound economic base. As Jamaica's financial problems grew more severe with time, prime minister Michael Manley Read More
Synopsis: Scandalize My Name provides a searing examination of how "Red Scare" politics were used to hinder America's civil rights movement. This powerful film documents the first-hand experiences of African-American performers faced with blacklists, loyalty oaths and other discrimination. It explores the Read More
Synopsis: David Crosby hosts this history of social activism by musicians. Stand and Be Counted: Concerts and Causes was originally shown as a two-part documentary on The Learning Channel. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Andy Garcia, Harry Belafonte, Robert Prosky, Ray Walston, James Whitmore
Synopsis: In this courtroom drama set in the near future, the U.S. Supreme Court has recently overturned the Roe vs. Wade decision and thrown the issue of abortion rights back to the individual states. Alabama has subsequently outlawed abortion on demand and has prosecuted Virginia Mapes (Lisa Gay Hamilton) Read More
Actors: Andrew Young, Rev. Benjamin Hooks, John Lewis, Rev. Harold Middlebrook, Rev. Hosea Williams
Synopsis: Oliver Stone is the executive producer of this political documentary recalling the idealism, struggles, and turmoil of 1968 when two visionary American leaders promised hope but were slain within months of each other. After opening with Robert Kennedy on April 4, 1968 telling people in Read More
Actors: Gloria Estefan, Dizzy Gillespie, Rubén Blades
Synopsis: In the second tape of the three-tape documentary Roots of Rhythm, host Harry Belafonte leads the viewer on a tour of the blossoming of Latin music in the Cuban and Caribbean cultures. Featuring performances by some of the best known Latin performers including Tito Puente, Desi Arnaz, and Ruben Blades Read More
Actors: Harry Belafonte, Gloria Estefan, Dizzy Gillespie, Rubén Blades
Synopsis: In this final volume of the three-tape documentary Roots of Rhythm, host Harry Belafonte chronicles the rise to fame and fortune of Latin-influenced performers. As in the first two volumes, Roots of Rhythm, Vol. 3: To the Top of the Charts features the performances of some of the leading lights in Read More
Synopsis: Harry Belafonte presents a tour through his musical career and varied influences in this concert video, in which the legendary singer and actor is accompanied by a superb ensemble of African and Latin musicians. Harry Belafonte: An Evening With Harry Belafonte and Friends includes the songs Read More
Synopsis: In this first tape of the three-tape documentary Roots of Rhythm, host Harry Belafonte traces the roots of the musical form that has come to be called Latin music. From its origins in Africa and Spain, Belafonte details the evolution of the rhythms that would eventually be carried across the sea Read More
Synopsis: This cool and tuneful documentary centers on a band of modern musicians in period garb playing a dozen authentic pieces from 1934 Kansas City jazz. Their performance was recorded on the set of Robert Altman's 1996 film Kansas City, and selections from this atmospheric concert were used in his Read More
Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte, Michael Murphy, Dermot Mulroney
Synopsis: The jazz world of 1930s Kansas City serves as the backdrop for an offbeat story of kidnapping, political corruption, and organized crime in director Robert Altman's loving but unsentimental look at his childhood hometown. The film's intricate story is triggered by petty thief Johnny O'Hara (Dermot Mulroney Read More
Synopsis: Ted Hawkins was often called the world's greatest street singer. Abandoned by his parents as a boy and enduring a childhood that could have inspired 100 blues songs, Hawkins made his way to California in his early 20s, determined to make a career for himself as a musician. When record deals didn't Read More
Synopsis: Jack and the Beanstalk is a classic story that transcends ethnic boundaries. After all, foolishness knows no color. Happily Ever After demonstrates this with an African-American retelling of the fairy tale. When Jack comes across some magic beans, he unwittingly plants danger in the backyard. HBO Read More
Actors: John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Kelly Lynch, Margaret Avery, Tom Bower
Synopsis: From director-writer Desmond Nakano comes this unusual role-reversal picture examining racism from a different perspective. Louis Pinnock (John Travolta) is a semi-literate worker in a chocolate candy factory. One day he makes a delivery to the mansion of wealthy Thaddeus Thomas (Harry Belafonte). Read More
Crew: Executive Producer
Actors: Courtney Vance, Kerry Fox, Ciarán Hinds, Bill Nunn, Leland Gantt
Synopsis: The wife of a British army officer falls in love with an African American G.I. in this made-for-cable World War II drama. When her unfaithful husband (Ciaran Hinds) goes off to war, small-town homemaker Maggie Leyland (Kerry Fox) spends her time caring for her young son (Rory Jennings) and helping Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger
Synopsis: This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect against the backdrop of Paris's annual "Pret-a-Porter" fashion extravaganza. With 31 principal characters and a number of cameos from well known models, designers, actors and Read More
Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher
Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More
Actors: Nat "King" Cole
Synopsis: One of the best and most popular musicians of the 1950s and '60s, Nat "King" Cole was the first African-American entertainer to host his own television series, and many of the great musical talents of the day stopped by his studio to appear on The Nat "King" Cole Show. The Incomparable Nat King Read More
Synopsis: Afro-Cuban music throughout the world is profiled in this video tracing its path from African and Spain into the Caribbean, the United States and onto the rest of the world. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Nat King Cole is best remembered as the world-renowned crooner who captivated audiences with his airy songs. Unforgettable traces Cole's life through the words of those that knew him personally. The star-studded lineup includes Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Mel Torme. Together with Cole's Read More
Synopsis: We Shall Overcome tells the story of the song that became a Civil Rights anthem. In the 19th century, many African-Americans sang "I Shall Overcome," a spiritual that had been sung by slaves. By 1945, a group of striking tobacco workers began to sing "We Shall Overcome," marking the first time the Read More
Synopsis: Zimbabwe was host to a Belafonte concert. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Wembley Stadium has seen its share of stars, benefits and concerts, but none quite like this. Some of England's biggest and brightest stars come out to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela on his 70th birthday. This concert features full sets from Dire Straits, who was joined by Eric Clapton, Sting Read More
Synopsis: A political video based on speeches made by Rep. Ron Dellumsm in his appeal for less defense spending. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Join in the fun with Kermit and Fozzie Bear when they tell of their favorite moments from "The Muppet Show." ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Crew: Composer (Music Score), Producer
Actors: Rae Dawn Chong, Guy Davis, John Chardiet, Leon Grant, Robert Taylor
Synopsis: Jon Chardiet plays a Puerto Rican youth who targets subway walls for his graffiti renderings. For a while, it looks as though Chardiet's problems will carry the plotline, but before long the film's true raison d'etre comes to the surface. Rap-music deejay Guy Davis, in tandem with such like-minded Read More
Synopsis: In 1981 an exhibition of modern Cuban art toured San Francisco and New York, sparking an interest in the topic and the artists themselves. The first part of this documentary looks at Cuban artists at work in their studios or at home, holding forth on their art, their own lives, and their Read More
Actors: Joan Baez, Christoph Bantzer, Harry Belafonte
Synopsis: There was a large, Woodstock-style peace concert held in Hamburg in 1983, and this documentary records the performances and the statements made by many international notables, including Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte, and Floyd Westerman from the U.S., Udo Lindenberg from Germany, Cieslav Niemen from Read More
Crew: Composer (Music Score)
Synopsis: During a 1980 concert tour in Cuba, singer Harry Belafonte was filmed both in performance, and in a long interview amounting to a monologue on his career, on the lives of men who have inspired him (Martin Luther King Jr., Paul Robeson), and on humanity's universal need to live free from Read More
Synopsis: In this animated feature, a collection of exciting tales has been assembled, including "The Hand," with Harry Belafonte, "Casey at the Bat," Edgar Allen Poe's chilling "Masque of the Red Death," and "The Hangman." ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Produced by Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner, Grambling's White Tiger stars Jenner as real-life quarterback Jim Gregory. The film recounts Gregory's efforts to become the first white player on Grambling College's all-black football team. Harry Belafonte made his TV-movie debut as legendary Grambling Read More
Synopsis: Harry Belafonte performs "Turn the World Around" flocked by Muppets in African garb. "Day-O" is given a classic twist in the form of an all-pig chorus. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, Calvin Lockhart, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor
Synopsis: Uptown Saturday Night is a delightful comedy directed by and starring Sidney Poitier. Steve Jackson (Sidney Poitier) is a factory worker. One evening, when boredom gets the best of him, Steve and his pal Wardell (Bill Cosby) decide to go to an underground gambling club to have some fun. While they Read More
Actors: Marlo Thomas
Synopsis: Marlo Thomas served as both producer and star for this landmark 1974 television special, which, through songs, stories, and comedy sketches, encourages children to accept and celebrate diversity in others, and embrace their own individuality. Guests stars include Mel Brooks, Alan Alda, Harry Read More
Crew: Producer
Actors: Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell, Denny Miller, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte
Synopsis: Sidney Poitier makes his directorial debut with the 1972 Western Buck and the Preacher, set during the end of the Civil War. Poitier stars as Buck, an ex-Army soldier who is scouting sites for the former slaves that want to settle out West. The villainous Deshay (Cameron Mitchell) rounds up his Read More
Synopsis: Having tackled every known film subject in his long career, from musicals to murder mysteries, Sidney Lumet tries his hand at documentary in King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis. Lumet co-directed and co-produced the film with another Hollywood luminary, Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Beyond Read More
Actors: Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska, Milo O'Shea, Gloria Foster
Synopsis: Bernard Malamud seldom saw his works faithfully transferred to the screen (take a look at The Natural sometime), but he issued no complaints over the cinemazation of his The Angel Levine. Zero Mostel plays an elderly Jew whose life experiences have left him an embittered agnostic. Into Mostel's Read More
Actors: Petula Clark
Actors: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley, Sr., Gloria Grahame
Synopsis: Harry Belafonte was both producer and star of this hard-edged film noir crime drama. Dave Burke (Ed Begley, Sr.) is an ex-cop who has been kicked off the force for refusing to inform on his colleagues to the State Crime Committee. Short on money, the former policeman jumps to the other side Read More
Actors: Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer
Synopsis: Pennsylvania miner Harry Belafonte emerges from a cave-in to discover the coal field, and indeed all of Pennsylvania, deserted. By the time he reaches the eerie empty streets of New York City (these scenes were filmed at daybreak, just before the Friday "rush hour"). Belafonte has pieced together Read More
Crew: Songwriter
Actors: James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Joan Collins, Michael Rennie
Synopsis: Political intrigue and romantic gamesmanship send an already torrid Caribbean community to the boiling point in this drama. Maxwell Fleury (James Mason) and David Boyeur (Harry Belafonte) are two men running for political office in a British-controlled island in the West Indies. Maxwell is the son Read More
Actors: Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Olga James, Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll
Synopsis: In 1943, Oscar Hammerstein Jr. took Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, rewrote the lyrics, changed the characters from 19th century Spaniards to World War II-era African-Americans, switched the locale to a Southern military base, and the result was Carmen Jones. Dorothy Dandridge stars as Carmen Jones Read More
Actors: Dorothy Dandridge, Philip Hepburn, Robert Horton, Harry Belafonte, Barbara Ann Sanders
Synopsis: Bright Road was a real rarity in 1953: a major-studio production with an all-black cast. Based on an award-winning short story by Mary Elizabeth Vroman, the film is largely set at a rural black school in an unspecified Southern community. Idealistic new fourth-grade teacher Jane Richards (Dorothy Dandridge Read More
Synopsis: Part of the Biogrpahy television series from A&E, this documentary revies the career and personal life of Academy Award winning actress, Audrey Hepburn. Born Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston, in Brussels, Belgium. She trained as a ballet dancer in Amsterdam, and at the Marie Rambert Read More
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