This earnest evangelical drama draws inspiration from the Bible verse Hebrews 4:16 ("We will find grace to help us when we...
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George Wright
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2011
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Successful novelist Stanley falls into a downward spiral of self despair following the death of his young son, but gets a...
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2011
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A troubled teen spends the summer on his grandfather's Iowa farm and learns some valuable life lessons from a rescued kennel...
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2011
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2010
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2010
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A runaway slave joins the Union army, and fights on the front lines of the Civil War with his loyal dog by his side in this...
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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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Executive Producer
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2010
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Oscar and Emmy-winning actor Louis Gossett, Jr. narrates this dramatic look at the people who raised their voices in song...
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Narrator
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2009
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Inspired by a true story, the directorial debut of filmmaker Mark Young tells the tale of a young black man who is railroaded...
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Samuel Benton
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2009
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Sixteen-year-old Shannon discovers she has a natural affinity for racing horses while spending the summer with her mother,...
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2009
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2008
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A woman accused could be either a killer or a victim in this psychological drama from director Bill Duke. Valerie Maas...
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Det. Hicks
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2008
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Directed by filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and produced by journalist Elvis Mitchell, this collaborative documentary...
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2008
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Willie
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2007
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2007
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A medical student with mounting debts draws on her formidable poker skills in order to stay afloat in this gambling drama...
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Caps
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2006
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The countdown to Armageddon continues as world leader Nicolae Carpathia (Gordon Currie) brings peace to the world in this...
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President Gerald Fitzhugh
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2005
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A young boy grows up among a makeshift family of oddballs and dreamers in this adaptation of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's...
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2005
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The largest coronal mass emission ever detected is about to set the entire planet ablaze, and in order to save the human...
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2005
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2003
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Throughout his life, physics professor Zach Shefford (Grayson McCouch) has regarded his telekinetic gifts as a curse rather...
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Raymond Addison
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2003
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The time: June 1998. The place: The sleepy town of Jasper, TX. Three young, self-styled white supremists overpower a...
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R.C. Horn
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2003
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Christian independent film company Cloud Ten Productions presents this science fiction-tinged thriller in the same vein of...
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2002
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A rare original movie offering from the UPN network, What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away focuses on three high school...
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2002
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The scene is the small Missouri town of Silver Shade in the mid-'60s. Despite deeply ingrained prejudice, black lawyer Daniel...
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Executive Producer
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2001
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2001
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This made-for-TV drama is based on the true-life story of Dr. Lucille Teasdale (Marina Orsini), who was one of the first...
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2000
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Originally aired on the Showtime cable network, this sequel continues the adventures of two determined postal inspectors as...
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Hank Barnes
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2000
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When the daughter of widowed Southern dowager Georgia Porter (Gena Rowlands) is killed in an accident, Georgia learns to her...
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Lou Hastings
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2000
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As the dawn of the year 2000 rolls around, a nervous military leader (Malcolm McDowell) assembles a team to help him deal...
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1999
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Louis Gossett Jr. and Robert Townsend take turns directing each other in this multi-part film about the many facets of love...
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Director
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1999
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A man who lowered himself to work in telephone sales finds himself not only fired from his job, but also set up by his...
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1999
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1998
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1998
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1998
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Originally made for the Showtime cable network, this fast-paced thriller allows viewers a look into the sometimes dangerous...
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Frank Hughes
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1998
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Though almost all actors and directors must struggle to find gainful employment in their profession, this challenge...
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1997
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Originally an episode of the Touched by an Angel spinoff Promised Land, this is the conclusion of a two-part story begun on...
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1997
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Clay Crosby never had the chance to know his late father very well and it created a void in his life. At 15, he finds a pair...
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Executive Producer, Frank Crosby
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1997
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1997
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In this first episode of a two-part story, Tess (Della Reese) pays a visit to the Greene family, the protagonists of the...
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1997
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Made-for-cable and loosely based on Bram Stoker's novel, Jewel of the Seven Stars, this chiller is set in modern-day San...
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Corbeck
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1997
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Following the death of an American war correspondent (John Rice) in Nicaragua, his best friend, a New York stock broker...
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1997
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Chappy Sinclair
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1996
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In 1988, Gail Devers was one of the best female sprinters in America, and seemed assured of a place on the United States...
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Bob Kersee
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1996
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A solemn look at South African apartheid, Arthur Penn's claustrophobic drama centers on a pair of political interrogations,...
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Executive Producer, Questioner
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1996
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Devoted parents search for their daughter in this strange, fact-based made-for-television movie. Set in the 1850s,...
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1996
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This program explores the inspirations and accomplishments of African-American men and examines issues they often face in...
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1996
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A highly entertaining retrospective of the famous basketball team. Harlem Globetrotters: 6 Decades of Magic, hosted by Louis...
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1996
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Battered and left alone, a 10-year-old sharecropper's son finds comfort and unconditional love from a big-hearted farmer....
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1995
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Rare archival footage and interviews tell tales of public triumph and personal defeats of the greatest names in boxing --...
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Narrator
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1995
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1995
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Based on the award-winning play by Sam Shepard, this drama offers an unblinking look at a family desperately clinging to the...
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Ellis
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1994
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An honest cop stands in the face of the corruption of his peers in this thriller. Jack Flinder is a police detective who...
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Ben Durand
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1994
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Based on a novel by William Boyd (who also wrote the film's screenplay), this darkly witty drama explores the political,...
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Prof. Sam Adekunle
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1994
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Blue Chips examines greed, cheating, and "winning at all costs" in the world of college basketball. Nick Nolte plays the...
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1994
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The 16th president of the United States comes fully to life in the one-hour special Abraham Lincoln: A New Birth of Freedom....
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1993
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The first of a number of sequels to the highly successful western mini-series Lonesome Dove featured few of the same actors...
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1993
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Based on a true story, Disney's made-for-television film Goodbye, Miss 4th of July is about the daughter of Greek immigrants...
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1993
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In the inspirational two-hour documentary Gridiron Gang, director/co-producer Lee Stanley (Desperate Passage) undertakes an...
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Host
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1993
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Originally made for television, this prison drama centers on a hard-core convict who for the past decade has been the king...
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1993
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If you've seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, you know what a "monolith" is. What it is not is exclusively an extraterrestrial...
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Capt. MacCandless
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1993
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In this comedy, a charming con man teams up with a boxer fallen on hard times in hopes of making some quick money. After...
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Honey Ray Palmer
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1992
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Chappy Sinclair enlists the aid of a team of wild air show pilots after he discovers that a Peruvian drug lord has set up...
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Colonel Charles "Chappy" Sinclair
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1992
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Carolina Skeletons is based on a prize-winning novel by David Stout. Louis Gossett Jr. plays a former Green Beret colonel who...
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1992
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A vigilante (Anthony LaPaglia) who is systematically killing the crime lords in control of the Chicago mob crosses paths with...
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Detective James Dela
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1992
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Even as they scored victory after victory for the United States, black soldiers still faced discrimination. Includes footage...
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1992
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Dean Parker
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1991
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Just released from a long prison stay, a man is thrown into fatherhood when he regains custody of the son he's never met. ~...
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1991
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A PBS "American Playhouse" production, this is an amusing TV outing revealing the life of Zora Neale Hurston, a black writer...
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1990
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In Cover-Up, an espionage thriller, someone attacks a U.S. military installation in Israel and steals a secret "package"...
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Lou Jackson
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1990
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Sidney Williams
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1990
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1990
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In the made-for-cable El Diablo, Anthony Edwards plays a bespectacled Eastern schoolteacher who is bullied and cowed by the...
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1990
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Based on Sara Flanigan Carter's semi-autobiographical novel, the made-for-cable Sudie and Simpson is about a White...
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1990
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An anthropology student involved in a Chinatown gang war is assisted by Gideon. ~ Rovi...
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1989
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This TV film was the 2-hour pilot for the Gideon Oliver series. Louis Gossett Jr. stars as Oliver, an anthropology professor...
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1989
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A double murder, investigated by Gideon, causes great unrest in a normally peaceful religious community. ~ Rovi...
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1989
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Raisin in the Sun is a 1989 TV adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 Broadway play (previously filmed in 1962). An...
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1989
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This is an adaptation of a popular, violent Marvel Comics series about a character who's a frontier-style vigilante in...
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Jake Berkowitz
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1989
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An international ring of art thieves has connections with a Latin American dictator, and investigator Gideon gets into a...
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1989
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Intrigue in the Caribbean sweeps up Professor Oliver, a strong-willed woman and an innocent boy in its clutches. ~ Rovi...
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1989
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A pair of American pilots are forced to cooperate with their Soviet counterparts on a mission to destroy a Middle Eastern...
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Charles Sinclair
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1988
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Deviating from the storyline of Alex Haley's book, and the classic 1977 miniseries that followed, the plotline of 1988's...
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Fiddler
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1988
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An impulsive but determined white principal brings order and respect to a predominantly African-American and Latino high...
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Jake Phillips
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1987
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Gathering of Old Men was based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines, who'd previously written The Autobiography of Miss Jane...
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1987
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In this provocative made-for-television drama, an African American Chicago priest takes on the Catholic church during his...
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Father Clements
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1987
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Leo Porter
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1986
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A seat-of-the-pants militia attitude gets a boost from this conventional drama about the heroics of a teen son anxious to...
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Chappy
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1986
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Love means never having to say that you're ugly in the extravagant fantasy film Enemy Mine. Earthling Dennis Quaid is...
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Drac
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1985
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In this slapstick chase-adventure, some unlikely heroes try to outwit each other for possession of a huge stash of cash...
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Century
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1984
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The Guardian is set in an upper-class New York apartment building, recently plagued by a series of break-ins and murders. The...
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1984
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Louis Gossett Jr. was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat in this two-part made-for-TV...
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1983
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An ocean-themed Florida amusement park comes under attack from an angry Great White shark in this third installment of the...
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Calvin
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1983
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Richard Gere plays Zack Mayo, an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he's arrived at training camp for...
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Sgt. Emil Foley
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1982
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Host
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1982
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Relying more on acting and attitude than makeup, Louis Gossett Jr. plays a cantankerous, fiercely independent old man in...
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1982
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This TV-movie biography of legendary black ballplayer Leroy "Satchel" Paige unfortunately whitewashes and hokes up his...
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1981
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The Lazarus Syndrome stars Louis Gossett Jr. as brilliant, temperamental cardiologist Mac St. Clair. At present, St. Clair is...
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1979
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This socially conscious drama is set during the Civil Rights Movement and chronicles the endeavors of a black minister to...
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1979
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Based on the best-selling memoirs of Lillian Rogers Parks, the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House traces over five...
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Levi Mercer
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1979
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Joe Don Baker stars as chief of detectives, Eischeid, in the 4-hour, 2-part TV film To Kill A Cop. Eischeid must contend with...
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1978
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The civil rights movement in the South saw the election of the first black county sheriff as portrayed in this drama. ~ Rovi...
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1978
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1978
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Critical List divides its four-hour running time between a big city hospital and a courtroom where the hospital heads are...
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1978
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Two weapons dealers are ambushed in Africa, but their luck changes when a wealthy widow hires them. She blames the natives...
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1978
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Henri Cloche
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1977
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1977
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Jim Rockford (James Garner) arranges for his ex-jailbird "pal" Gandy Fitch (Isaac Hayes) to work as a legman for Marcus Hayes...
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1977
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This award-winning six-part historical epic was one of the first examples of the miniseries format and one of the...
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Fiddler
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1977
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Loosely based on former policeman Joseph Wambaugh's humorous novel, The Choirboys determinedly explores the stunted interior...
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Motts
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1977
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Also known as Little Ladies of the Night, the story focuses on a teenager who runs away from home and finds herself in the...
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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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1976
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It's The Wages of Fear, prairie style, in this tension-laden episode. When the price of grain plummets precipitously, Charles...
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1976
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Despite his animosity towards his former parole officer Marcus Hayes (Louis Gosset Jr. in his first series appearance), Jim...
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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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Dr. Dudley Stanton
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1976
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Normally the most level-headed member of the Evans family, young Michael (Ralph Carter) has suddenly begun acting in a goofy...
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1975
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1975
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The Cut Man Caper originated as a 90-minute episode of the weekly TV anthology Police Story. Heading the cast is...
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1975
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San Francisco's Delancey Street is the locale of a halfway house for ex-convicts, former drug users, and other society...
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1975
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This comedy western is the failed pilot for a TV series based on the 1971 feature film Skin Game. Like the original, this...
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1974
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1974
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Thelma (BernNadette Stanis) has a new boyfriend, and her family is dying to meet him. But she is reluctant to bring her...
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1974
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Director Philip Kaufman took his production of Eskimo life to actual locations in the Arctic Circle, making it only the third...
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Portagee
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1974
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James Larrimore
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1973
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In the lively comedy/adventure Travels with My Aunt, adapted from Graham Green's book, Henry (Alec McCowan), a timid, bookish...
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Wordsworth
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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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Lou Gossett and Marlene Clark are cast as a fugitive black couple, on the run after being accused of killing two white men....
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Buck Walter
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1971
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The Partridges come to the rescue of brothers A.E. and Sam Simon (Richard Pryor, Louis Gossett Jr.), the owners of an...
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1971
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Wealthy, insensitive young Beau Bridges buys an inner-city tenement, planning to evict the present occupants and construct a...
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Copee
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1970
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Prince Leo (Marcello Mastroianni) is the exiled ruler from an unnamed country living on the edge of a London ghetto with his...
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1970
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Tembo
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1970
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Paul Newman served as co-producer of this allegorical drama and stars as Rheinhardt, a opportunistic drifter who ends up in...
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1970
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Melvyn Douglas made his TV-movie debut in Companions in Nightmare. Douglas plays a famous psychiatrist who conducts a...
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1967
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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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