Through probing exploration and expert commentary, this documentary takes an in-depth look at the evolution of African...
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1984
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Muhammad Ali made his TV-movie dramatic debut in this adaptation of Howard Fast's novel Freedom Road. Though some of the...
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1979
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1979
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Cajun quarter-horse trainer Lloyd Bourdelle (Walter Matthau) struggles to eke out a decent living for himself and his three...
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1978
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Based on the novel by William Brasher, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings is set in the segregated south of...
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1976
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Doctor
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1975
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Cicely Tyson ages from 19 to 110 in the role of Jane Pittman, a fictional African-American woman whose life began in slavery...
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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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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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During a particularly oppressive heat wave, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) answer several...
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1972
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Skin Game was historically significant as the 2000th film produced by Warner Bros. studios. The film is a comedy western...
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1971
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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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Tick
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1970
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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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1969
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TV buffs will undoubtedly relish this episode, in which future M*A*S*H "good guy" Wayne Rogers is cast as a psychotic killer,...
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1966
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With this episode, the off-and-on romance between Gidget (Sally Field) and her classmate Mel (Robert Beach) takes center...
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1966
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All hell breaks loose in a Texas town when an escaped convict heads home in Arthur Penn's Southern gothic melodrama....
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1966
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While working on a costume for Ritchie's school play, Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) sticks her hands in a pot of permanent black...
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Rodney Johnson
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1965
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1965
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Imperious Southern matron Nell Snyder (Margaret Leighton) is upset by the recent behavior of her orphaned niece, Eva...
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Jesse
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1965
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Charlie Rogers (Elvis Presley) is a coffeehouse singer who joins a financially troubled carnival in Roustabout. He is hired...
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1964
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Dan Duryea stars in this gritty medium-budget western as an unregenerate killer. His one saving grace is his affection for...
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1964
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The senatorial campaign between Jason Foster (Richard Anderson) and Randolph Cartwell (Stewart Moss) gets down and dirty when...
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1964
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While this original movie version of Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning play may have dated somewhat, it was groundbreaking...
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1961
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The Young Savages is what used to be called a "thinking man's picture" about a potentially lurid subject: urban juvenile...
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1961
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This glamorized remake of the 1934 film Imitation of Life bears only a passing resemblance to its source, the best-selling...
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1959
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On a ship sailing through the China Seas, First Mate Walter Blake (Don Dubbins) follows directions written on the captain's...
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1959
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1959
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The American government inexplicably tries to send a box of wasps into space, but the mission ends when the rocket crashes in...
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1958
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In this sea-going suspense drama, Edwin Rumill (James Mason) is the former first mate of an ocean liner who leaps at the...
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1958
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The contrasting acting styles of Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster serve to increase the already high tension level of the WW2...
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1958
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Edward Chodorov's stage farce Oh, Men! Oh, Women! is somewhat unnecessarily overburdened by star names in this 1957 film...
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are contacted by a woman identifying herself as Mrs. Flint, who is worried that...
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1956
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1956
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An unusually matronly Jane Wyman plays the title character in Lucy Gallant. Adapted from a novel by Margaret Cousins, the...
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1955
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This jungle adventure is the final entry in the "Bomba the Jungle Boy" series. This time Bomba (played by 24-year-old Johnny...
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1955
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The best film of Don Siegel's career to date, this surprisingly intelligent B-picture describes the dramatic arc of an...
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1954
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Duffy of San Quentin is an Allied Artists low-budgeter based on the life of the warden who first introduced reforms in the...
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1954
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This western offers one of Hollywood's more historically accurate accounts of the Battle of Little Big Horn. The story...
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1954
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The Bowery Boys go to Africa in this entry in the long-running series. They embark upon their adventure after they discover...
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1954
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In this African adventure, a fearless physician goes into the jungle to search for rare medicinal herbs. While there, he...
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1953
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Disreputable wanderer Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) has been thrown in a frontier town calaboose, accused of being a...
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1953
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In this adventure, an intrepid explorer and a missionary's daughter embark upon a perilous journey through Africa in order...
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1953
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In this romantic spy thriller, a nightclub performer plys her trade in her husband's Trinidad bar. He is murdered by a...
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1952
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Gary Cooper stars in this broad naval farce, directed by Henry Hathaway and based upon a John W. Hazard New Yorker magazine...
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1951
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His Kind of Woman directed by veteran John Farrow, is a convoluted mystery thriller which tries unsuccessfully to combine...
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1951
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Despite its lack of production values and box-office "names," The Jackie Robinson Story is one of the best and most...
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1950
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In this family farce, an older couple falls in love and decide to marry and embark upon a peaceful honeymoon without the...
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1948
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1948
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John Garfield, in the best performance of his career, portrays Joe Morse, an ambitious attorney who has long since abandoned...
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1948
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At a time when Jim Crow segregation was de rigeur in the South and anti-lynching laws were still being voted down by certain...
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1947
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Without Reservations has to be the least typical John Wayne picture of the postwar era. Top billing is bestowed upon...
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1946
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1945
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African explorers hit the Congo in search of a rare white gorilla in this campy jungle adventure filled with deliciously...
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1945
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