Harry Belafonte rose to fame in the 1950s as a singer and actor, bringing the Caribbean sounds of calypso music to the charts...
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2012
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A romantic comedy set during the 2008 presidential election, director William Dear's Politics of Love explores the...
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2011
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Lorie (Meagan Good) achieves her dream of fame by becoming a dancer in hip-hop videos, but soon she learns that celebrity has...
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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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2010
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Three women struggle with the joys and sorrows of love in this three-part drama from writer and director Kyle Schickner....
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Doris
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2009
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Ironically, although the Supreme Court's 1955 Brown v. Board of Education decision embodied a massive leap forward in the...
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2009
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In this made-for-TV movie from the Lifetime Channel, Rosie O'Donnell stars as Dr. Maureen Brennan, a child psychiatrist who...
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Mrs. Harper
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2009
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2007
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A spirited older woman decides to bring her quarrelsome family together for a party in this comedy drama from New Zealand...
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Nanna Maria
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2007
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Award-winning filmmaker Christine Swanson follows up her feature debut All About You) with this romantic drama concerning two...
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Ms. Ella
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2007
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2006
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A year after his wife's death and nearly a decade since his last visit home, successful New York lawyer Spencer Krane...
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Maude Perry
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2005
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Originally telecast March 6, 2005, by ABC, this "Oprah Book Club" TV movie is adapted from Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their...
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Nanny
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2005
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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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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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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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Based on a true story, Taking Back Our Town is a Lifetime original movie. Laura Innes plays Pat Melancon, a housewife and...
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2001
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Robert Wise brings his distinguished name and considerable directorial skill to this remake of a 1970 Rod Serling TV drama....
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Grandmother
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2000
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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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Mrs. McHenry
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2000
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2000
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Dr. Elena Kinder (Kathleen Turner) is the highly visible chief executive of BABYCO, the world's largest manufacturer of baby...
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Margo
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1999
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Set in the institutionally segregated New Orleans of 1965, the made-for-cable Passing Glory is the story of black priest...
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Mommit Porter
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1999
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Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany
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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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1999
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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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1998
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At the shiny black length of the Vietnam wall, visitors come to pay respects and often leave behind mementos. This drama...
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1998
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1998
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1998
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1997
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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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Producer
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1995
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1995
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The novel by John Katzenbach becomes this legal thriller starring Sean Connery as Harvard Law School professor Paul...
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1995
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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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Mother Abigail Freemantle
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1994
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When an eight-year-old black youth (Norman D. Golden II) witnesses a mob hit, he orders the police to make him a cop for a...
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Rachel
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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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1993
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Produced by Monterey Home Video, Poetry Hall of Fame 3 is the third volume of a four-part video series hosted by actress...
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1993
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1993
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This video is volume four of a four-part series presented by PBS, featuring some of the greatest poets in the English...
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1993
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1993
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1992
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1992
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The need to escape from the everyday world is one of the topics in this episode of Reading Rainbow. Ruby Dee reads Tar...
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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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Lucinda Purify
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1991
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1991
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Director Alan Rudolph's 1989 model mood piece stars Tom Berenger as shabby private eye Harry Dobbs, who is hired by the...
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1990
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1990
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Originally airing on the Hallmark Hall of Fame, this made-for-television adaptation of a novel by John William Corrington...
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1990
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Made for the TNT cable network, The Court Martial of Jackie Robinson concentrates on the wartime service of major league...
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1990
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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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Play Author
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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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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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Originally telecast in two parts on March 27 and 28 of 1988, Lincoln was adapted from the bestselling "factual fiction" by...
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1988
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Windmills of the Gods was adapted for television by John Gay from a best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon. Jaclyn Smith plays...
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1988
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The Atlanta Child Murders is a five-hour, two-part dramatization of one of the most tragic and controversial homicide cases...
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1985
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In this poignant adaptation of James Baldwin's novel about a few generations in the life of an Afro-American family, a young...
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1984
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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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When Simon is threatened by a horrible monster, he receives help from an unexpected source -- his pens. This episode in the...
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1984
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In this loose adaptation of the 1942 horror classic of the same name, a 2001-style opening montage establishes some sort of...
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Female
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1982
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This tribute to the late Lorraine Hansberry is featured in this video. Learn of her experiences as a black artist in...
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1981
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This feature covers the events surrounding the actions of five black school children in Harlem in the 1960's. ~ Rovi...
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1980
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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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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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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is based on the writings of African-American poet/playwright Maya Angelou. Though she...
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Grandmother Baxter
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1979
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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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This drama, financed by DST Communications, a subsidiary of Delta Sigma Theta, the world's largest black sorority, centers...
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Leah Matanzima
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1976
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1974
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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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1972
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Sidney Poitier makes his directorial debut with the 1972 Western Buck and the Preacher, set during the end of the Civil War....
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Ruth
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1972
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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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The made-for-TV Deadlock stars Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Sam Danforth (since this is long before the Police Squad era, Nielsen...
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1969
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Uptight is an updated remake of John Ford's The Informer (35). The Irish Republican rebels of the original are replaced by...
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Screenwriter, Laurie
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1968
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Martin Sheen may be the Grey Eminence of movies nowadays, but back in 1967 he often as not played switchblade-wielding punks....
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1967
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Posing as "Ray Miller", Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) is hired as cut-man for young African American prizefighter Joe...
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1963
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The denizens of a sordid brothel become embroiled in a bloody coup in this arty political satire adapted from the Jean Genet...
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1963
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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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Lutiebelle
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1963
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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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Ruth Younger
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1961
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Young (19-year-old) reggae and rhythm-and-blues singer Johnny Nash stars in this conventional coming-of-age story about a...
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Christine, the Maid
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1959
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The life of legendary bluesman W.C. Handy is highly dramatized in this tuneful biopic. The story opens as his father, a...
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Elizabeth
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1958
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Based on Robb White's novel 3DOur Virgin Island3D (the film's original title), this harmless location-filmed comedy boasts an...
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1958
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Edge of the City is a modern morality play, acted out in the railyards of New York. AWOL soldier John Cassavetes takes a job...
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Lucy Tyler
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1957
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Tom Ewell plays a busy attorney who wishes to be closer to his son. To do this, he becomes manager of the boy's little league...
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1956
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The inspirational story of the famed basketball tricksters The Harlem Globetrotters is chronicled in this drama. The...
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1954
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The Tall Target is based on a true story: the attempted assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln, even before he was...
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Rachel
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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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Rae Robinson
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1950
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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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1947
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1947
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