Halle Berry hosts this eye-opening account of the African-American contribution to the United States military, beginning...
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2010
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Directed by Spike Lee, She Hate Me follows John Henry "Jack" Armstrong (Anthony Mackie), who is fired from a posh job in...
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2004
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Granddad
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2004
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2004
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2004
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The inspirational tale of the USS Mason comes to the screen in a dramatic account of the perils faced by the...
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Lorenzo DuFau
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2004
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A pair of pacifist-minded documentarians reach out to dozens of their generation's greatest thinkers in a bid to ensure a...
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2004
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An ancient evil finds resistance in the most unlikely of places in this oddball comedy horror effort from Phantasm director...
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John "Jack" Fitzgerald Kennedy
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2003
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Actress Lisa Gay Hamilton makes her directorial debut with the documentary Beah: A Black Woman Speaks, a biography of actress...
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2003
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Inspired by a true story, this made-for-cable drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. To the...
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Rev. Gregory
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2003
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2002
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, Monica (Roma Downey) continues struggling with her emotions as Tess (Della Reese)...
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2002
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Among the tasks undertaken by the WPA's Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s was to transcribe the memories of those former...
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2002
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J.C. Leyendcker is considered by many to be one of the most important illustrators of the 20th century. This film documents...
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2002
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The title of the CBS doctor drama referred to the fictional Presidio Medical Group of San Francisco. Distinguishing this...
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2002
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Eyewitness accounts combine with archival footage to offer an illuminating account of the oft-neglected but undeniably...
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2001
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Led by artist Paul O'Neill, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra has carried out a mission to create powerful artistry in music...
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2001
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Based on a story by Anne Rice, this made-for-cable miniseries explores the little-known phenomenon of the "Gens de Couleur...
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2001
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Walt Disney Pictures redefined computer animation with this technically accomplished fantasy of prehistoric life, combining...
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Yar
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2000
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Narrator
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2000
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A boy discovers that his coach may be more than just a nice old man who likes baseball in this family-oriented drama. Jason,...
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Buck McHenry
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2000
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Scandalize My Name provides a searing examination of how "Red Scare" politics were used to hinder America's civil rights...
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2000
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2000
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Screenwriter Arne Olsen makes his directorial debut in this comedy that explores the real meaning of youth and age. Owen...
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2000
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Paul Robeson was a distinguished and widely acclaimed figure in music, theater and film; as a singer, actor and educator,...
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1999
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Mordecai
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1999
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A young girl stuck in a horrific cycle of familial violence finds the power to build her own future from the place she least...
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1999
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1999
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1999
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Although she has turned her back on the poor, violence-ridden East Saint Louis ghetto of her birth, Brianna (Suzanne Douglas)...
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1999
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Betty Thomas directed this adaptation of the classic children's stories by Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), updating the original...
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Archer Dolittle
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1998
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1998
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1998
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1998
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This is the first episode of a two-part story, which originally concluded on the Touched by an Angel spinoff series Promised...
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1998
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During World War II, American soldiers fought for freedom overseas. At the same time, a battle for acceptance was being waged...
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1998
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From the days when Jesus walked the Earth with his small band of disciples, and then was crucified for his teachings,...
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1998
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1998
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This opening episode of Touched by an Angel's fourth season is actually the first half of a "crossover" story, with the...
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1997
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A jury argues a case in a stuffy room on a hot summer's day. Eleven say "guilty!" But one holdout (Jack Lemmon) is convinced...
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1997
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Produced for the HBO cable network, this docudrama explores the social and ethical issues at the heart of the infamous...
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1997
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Follow the inspiring journey of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, a monumentally gifted athlete whose greatest feat was...
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1997
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In this first episode of a two-part story, Monica (Roma Downey) and Tess (Della Reese) work independently to help...
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1996
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Originally telecast September 15, 1996, the third-season opener of Touched by an Angel is actually the pilot episode for the...
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1996
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Midge Carter
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1996
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Proudly We Served: The Men of the USS Mason ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi...
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1996
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Released one year to the day after the 1995 Million Man March, in which a million African-American men marched peacefully in...
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Jeremiah
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1996
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Ken Burns, America's most popular and successful documentarian of history, has called Thomas Jefferson "the most important...
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1996
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In this off-beat romance, a medical android used for surgical practice becomes the object of a lonely intern's affections. ~...
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1995
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The PBS produced Mississippi, America chronicles a significant chapter in the history of the nation's civil rights movement....
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1995
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Originally aired as a television mini-series, this all-star filmization of Stephen King's gripping epic of good versus evil...
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Judge Richard Farris
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1994
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For many people, summer is a favorite time of year, bringing long, warm days and time off from school or work. The featured...
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1994
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A sterling cast headed by Oscar-nominated Susan Sarandon makes this slick thriller one of the better adaptations of a...
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1994
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Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World is a celebratory tribute to the late African-American tennis great Arthur Ashe. Narrated by...
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1994
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This cheerful holiday comedy, a surprise box office smash, featured a generous dollop of raunchy, crude humor and was greatly...
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1993
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This well-mounted made-for-cable film zeroes in on the personal story of Ernest Green, the only senior among the nine black...
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Grandfather
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1993
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Ponder Blue
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1993
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Writer-director Spike Lee's epic portrayal of the life and times of the slain civil rights leader Malcolm X begins with the...
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1992
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Gladiator is the kind of boxing movie that goes that extra mile -- a self-loathing boxing saga that relishes in bare-knuckled...
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Noah
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1992
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A seven-part series that reviews and recreates the battles and sieges of the Civil War. Included are numerous artifacts and...
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1992
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Ponder Blue
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1992
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In 1977, Alex Haley's groundbreaking mini-series Roots became one of the most watched programs in television history,...
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1992
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Each episode of this series presents different battles from the war. Each uses re-enactments, expert commentary, and readings...
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1992
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Each episode of this series examines different battles of this war. Each uses re-enactments, expert commentary, and readings...
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1992
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This video is the fourth installment of the Lincoln series, originally aired on PBS. This volume focuses on the last days...
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1992
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A shrewd politician, Abraham Lincoln had the intelligence, ambition, and principles to grow into his job as president. This...
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1992
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By the third year of the Civil War, personal and national tragedy had worn down President Lincoln. However, he focused on...
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1992
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President Abraham Lincoln leads the Union in the fight to end the awful bloodshed of the Civil War. The year is 1863. The...
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1992
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Spike Lee defines "jungle fever" as sexual attraction between members of two races. In his film Jungle Fever, he examines the...
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The Good Reverend Doctor Purify
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1991
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Ponder Blue
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1991
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1991
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Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Patrick Shanley's first foray into the director's chair is a quirky romantic fantasy,...
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1990
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Narrator
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1990
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Ponder Blue
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1990
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Director Spike Lee dives head-first into a maelstrom of racial and social ills, using as his springboard the hottest day of...
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Da Mayor
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1989
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A frustrated writer helps save a woman being railroaded by the law -- or is she? -- in this comic mystery with romantic...
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1989
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Spike Lee's 1989 movie Do The Right Thing was a bombshell when it came out, particularly because of its honest and...
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1989
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Ossie Davis stars in this 60-minute TV drama. Davis plays Benjamin Banneker, the self-taught African-American astronomer,...
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1989
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Oz Jackson
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1989
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Fraternity and sorority members clash with the other students at a historically black university in this politically charged...
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Coach Odom
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1988
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Betsy Russell takes over as part-time prostitute Molly Stewart in this disappointing sequel to the surprisingly good Angel...
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Capt. Moradian
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1985
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This video is part of a PBS series, narrated by journalist Bill Moyers, that looks at some of the most influential ideas,...
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1984
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Harry (Paul Newman), a middle-aged hardhat, has trouble communicating with his teenaged son Howard (Robby Benson). While...
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1984
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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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Morgan Freeman makes an early screen appearance in this made-for-television docudrama inspired by the life and death of...
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1981
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The issue of forced school busing is explored with an unfortunately heavy hand in All God's Children. Richard Widmark plays a...
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1980
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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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The phenomenal success of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots all but demanded a sequel to writer Alex Haley's epic story of his...
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1979
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In this comedy a trio of undercover government cops in Miami decide that it would be a good idea to open a bogus fencing...
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Capt. Geibarger
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1979
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In this abysmal, tasteless farce, the pitfalls of patient and staff life in a big city hospital are supposed to be the brunt...
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1979
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King: The Martin Luther King Story originated as a three-part miniseries, first telecast February 12, 13 and 14, 1978....
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1978
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This introduction to the theater features a collection of fourteen dramas all combined in four modules. ~ Rovi...
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1978
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Twenty-year-old LeVar Burton followed up his spectacular television debut in Roots with the made-for-TV film Billy: Portrait...
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Doctor Fredericks
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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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1977
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A patriotic series of historical documentaries, each program makes extensive use of archive photos, rare newsreel footage...
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1976
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This program is part two in the 13-volume American Documents series and features historic contributions of black Americans....
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1976
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This drama, financed by DST Communications, a subsidiary of Delta Sigma Theta, the world's largest black sorority, centers...
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Director, Screenwriter, Ernest Motapo
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1976
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A pair of blue-collar buddies use hypnosis to turn a wimpy boxer into a champ in this crime comedy, which reunites...
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1975
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In this incredibly violent actioner, a soldier returns from the war in Vietnam and finds that his Harlem neighborhood has...
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Director
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1973
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In this melodrama a mother tries to compensate for her feelings of inadequacy and failure as a parent to her own children by...
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Director
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1972
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This 1972 documentary tribute to the life and work of the assassinated Black Muslim leader Malcolm X was poorly received at...
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1972
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The dictator of a Third-World African country endeavors to bring his people into the 20th century in this drama based on a...
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Director
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1971
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Ossie Davis makes his directorial debut a smashing success in the trend-setting action crime comedy Cotton Comes To Harlem....
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Director, Screenwriter, Songwriter
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1970
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The made-for-TV The Sheriff borrows a bit from the premise of the theatrical feature film Tick Tick Tick (71). Ossie Davis...
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1970
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In the two-hour pilot film for the subsequent TV "occult" anthology, series creator Rod Serling hosts three macabre short...
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1969
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In this drama, publisher Glenn Howard heads to Africa to find one of his missing editors. The story is taken from the "Name...
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1969
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Luke (Ossie Davis) is the loyal slave of a Kentucky horse breeder who is sold to the cruel Mississippi plantation owner...
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Luke
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1969
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Charles Carter
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1969
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This light western comedy finds the lovely widow Laura Breckenridge (Angie Dickenson) offering a $20,000 reward for the...
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Jedidiah Hooker
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1969
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Written and directed by Michael Landon, "The Wish" would remain Landon's favorite Bonanza episode long after its original...
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Sam Davis
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1969
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For his third feature outing, director Sydney Pollack helmed this comedic western starring (Burt Lancaster) as fur trapper...
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Joseph
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1968
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1967
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Now posing as "Ed Sanders", Kimble (David Janssen) shows up at an electronics demonstration being held in a shopping mall,...
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1966
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A star-studded cast invigorates this film of a jazz trumpeter (Sammy Davis Jr.) who experiences both the prejudices of the...
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Nelson Davis
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1966
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The Hill was unfairly subjected to ridicule by the more obtuse "critics" of 1965 who harped on the fact that it starred...
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Jacko King
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1965
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In this offbeat melodrama, a crazed gardener is relegated to a mental hospital after he goes berserk and beheads his wealthy...
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1964
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This film version of the successful stage play was written by and stars Ossie Davis as Purlie Victorious, a flamboyant, self...
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Play Author, Screenwriter, Purlie Victorious
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1963
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Tom Tryon plays the title role in this Otto Preminger version of the Henry Morton Robinson novel. In his matriculation from...
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1963
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Coley Wallace plays the title role in The Joe Louis Story. Told in flashback, the film recounts the pugilistic career of "the...
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1953
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Henry Hathaway directed this high-tension drama about a man teetering on the verge of self-destruction and how his dilemma...
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1951
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A pioneering film about racial tensions, No Way Out stars Richard Widmark as a criminal named Ray Biddle, who despises...
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1950
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