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2011
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Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
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2009
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In the summer of 2003, the East Coast of America was literally consumed by darkness. Though in the midst of the largest...
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2007
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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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Adam Carolla, Tommy Chong, Melvin Van Peebles, Barbara Hammer, Chris Gore, Linda Williams, and others discuss the history of...
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2005
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Book Author
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2004
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He's hip, he's fly, and he never mixes meat with dairy -- he's the world's first Jewish private eye, and he's out to save the...
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2003
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British director Isaac Julien takes on the Blaxploitation era of the '70s in the hour-long documentary Baadasssss Cinema....
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2003
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Spike Lee's documentary on the football star, movie actor, and social activist is a no-frills examination of a man who has...
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2002
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Corruption threatens to move into a heretofore idyllic village in this comedy-drama. Hector St. Rose (Med Hondo) is the mayor...
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2001
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Maverick director Melvin Van Peebles translates his own satirical novel to the screen with this multi-national portrait of...
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Book Author, Composer (Music Score), Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter
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2000
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In this medium-length (53 minutes) French-U.S. documentary made for European television, black filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles...
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Executive Producer, Screenwriter
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1998
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New Age masseur Poe Finklestein (Mario Van Peebles) has an appointment at the posh estate of widow Evelyn Heiss...
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1998
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The highlight of the homicide unit's New Year's party is the unreeling of "Back Page News," a documentary produced by the...
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1997
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Director
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1997
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This off-beat urban anthology offers four different views of the mayhem and destruction that came from the 1992 Los Angeles...
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1997
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Filmed on location in Nova Scotia, the made-for-TV Calm at Sunset is a "generation-gap" story with an unusual twist. Instead...
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1996
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In this highly-charged police drama, Officer Michael Rhoades is becoming increasingly disturbed by the amount of...
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Director
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1996
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This controversial political drama semi-fictionalizes the history of the radical Black Panther Party, an African-American...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1995
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Set in a post-WWIII world, this action fantasy centers on the deadly struggle between a great warrior and the villainous...
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Asher
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1995
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This German film consists of six separate vignettes each created by a different international director, each challenged to...
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
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1994
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Party-hard skydiving teacher Ditch Brodie (Charlie Sheen) has a knack for getting himself into trouble, but his...
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1994
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Writer, director, and star Mario Van Peebles tried to correct historical misconceptions about African-Americans on the...
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1993
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Eddie Murphy plays Marcus Graham, a hotshot ad exec who's also an insatiable womanizer. He is thus hardly prepared for his...
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1992
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1991
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This hip-hop comedy stars Mario Van Peebles as rapper Chilly D, who becomes possessed by the spirit of outrageous fashion...
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Director, Editor, Producer
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1990
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This is a comprehensive documentary of one of the 20th century's most influential jazz performers, the legendary...
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1990
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1987
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In what can only be described as a dramatic change of pace, Robert Altman directed this raunchy teen comedy based on the...
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1987
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Produced for public television, Taking Care of Terrific spotlights Joanne Vanicola as a teenaged baby sitter named Enid....
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1987
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An TV news satire from director Robert Downey, this film concerns a cable evening news show that gradually turns into chaotic...
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1986
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The three-part TV miniseries The Sophisticated Gents covers 25 years in the lives of a group of close friends. Nine...
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Composer (Music Score), Producer, Teleplay By
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1981
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Based on the life story of NASCAR auto racing champion Wendell Scott, this film, starring Richard Pryor as Scott, covers his...
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Screenwriter
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1977
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Originally telecast September 14, 1976, as a CBS "General Electric Theater" special, Just an Old Sweet Song was the first of...
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Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter
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1976
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter
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1973
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Produced, directed, written, scored by, and starring Melvin Van Peebles, this landmark "blaxploitation" film was as...
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter, Sweetback
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1971
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African-American activist and actor Melvin Van Peebles directed this comedy-drama starring Godfrey Cambridge as Jeff Gerber,...
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Composer (Music Score), Director
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1970
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Artfully squeezing every penny out of a grant from the French Cinema Center, Melvin Van Peebles made his directorial debut...
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Book Author, Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter
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1968
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