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Women of the Movement
( 2022 )
Limited series focusing on Mamie Till Mobley, who spent her entire life seeking justice for her son Emmett Till after being brutally murdered in the Jim Crow South.
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Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day
( 2012 )
The Ames' seem to have built the perfect life until their six year old daughter is kidnapped; over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secrets about their past that could rip their marriage and lives apart.
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Willie Dynamite
( 1974 )
A social worker tries to get a pimp to change his ways.
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Why Do Fools Fall in Love
( 1998 )
Three women each claim to be the widow of 1950s doo-wop singer Frankie Lymon, claiming legal rights to his estate.
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Why Did I Get Married Too?
( 2010 )
Four couples find themselves struggling to save their marriages once again on their annual marriage retreat, while each of them battle through financial, physical, mental, and emotional issues.
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Why Did I Get Married?
( 2007 )
The big screen adaptation of Perry's stage play about the trials of marriage, and what happens to one family when a sexy young temptress arrives on the scene.
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Which Way Is Up?
( 1978 )
Richard Pryor is playing three different roles here. The first being a poor orange picker named Leroy Jones who gets laid off when by mistake he joins the worker's union during one of their demonstrations. Afterwards he is forced to leave his wife and family behind which also includes Leroy's father (also played by Pryor) to go to Los Angeles. Leroy ends up working for the same company that fired him back home. He is a manager at the company but he is now distant from his former pals. He meets and falls in love with Vanetta who is a labor organizer which leaves him splitting time between his wife Annie Mae and Vanetta. When Leroy finds out that the Reverend Lenox Thomas (also played by Pryor) has got his wife pregnant while he was absent, he then make the moves on the reverend's wife.
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What's Love Got to Do with It
( 1993 )
The story of singer Tina Turner's rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner.
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Wendy Williams: The Movie
( 2021 )
Follows the highs and lows Wendy has experienced throughout the years, from her scrappy upstart days in urban radio to the success of her own syndicated talk show.
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Watermelon Man
( 1970 )
An extremely bigoted white man finds out the hard (and somewhat humorous) way what it's like being a black man, firsthand!
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Waiting to Exhale
( 1995 )
This story based on the best selling novel by Terry McMillan follows the lives of four African-American women as they try to deal with their very lives. Friendship becomes the strongest bond between these women as men, careers, and families take them in different directions. Often light-hearted this movie speaks about some of the problems and struggles the modern women face in today's world.
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Vampire in Brooklyn
( 1995 )
A ship sails into Brooklyn with all its crew dead. But something gets off and the killing continues on land. The vampire is looking for a specific woman - half-human, half-vampire. Rita's the cop detective investigating the many killings.
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Uptown Saturday Night
( 1974 )
At Madame Zenobia's illegal nightclub, when Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin get robbed of their wallets containing a winning lottery ticket, they set out to recover it.
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Underground
( 2016 )
Underground follows a group of slaves who plan a daring escape from a Georgia plantation to cross 600 miles to freedom.
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Tyler Perry's Sistas
( 2019 )
A group of single black women from different walks of life navigate their complicated love life status, careers and friendship through the ups-and-downs of living in a modern world of social media and unrealistic relationship goals.
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Two Wolves
( 2018 )
Two wolves is an urban thriller drama that builds on the story of Special Agent Artemis in a world of secrets, mystery and intrigue. As a child, Artemis watched his family get torn apart.
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Truck Turner
( 1975 )
Blaxploitation film about a former professional football player who becomes a bounty hunter in Los Angeles.
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Trouble Man
( 1973 )
A neighborhood "problem solver" is framed for murder by a couple of local crime bosses trying to get him out of the way.
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Training Day
( 2001 )
On his first day on the job as a Los Angeles narcotics officer, a rookie cop goes beyond a full work day in training within the narcotics division of the L.A.P.D. with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.
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Three the Hard Way
( 1974 )
The story involves a white supremist plot to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is harmless to whites but lethal to blacks. The only obstacles that stand in the way of this dastardly plan are Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly, who shoot, kick and karate chop their way to final victory.
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This Is It
( 2009 )
A compilation of interviews, rehearsals, and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London.
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This Christmas
( 2007 )
A Christmastime drama centered around the Whitfield family's first holiday together in four years.
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
( 1970 )
In San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.
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The Wiz
( 1978 )
24-year-old kindergarten teacher Dorothy, born, raised, and still working in Harlem, is celebrating Thanksgiving with her extended family, but she doesn't seem to be thankful for much. She lives a sheltered life and is shy and unfulfilled. When she gets caught in a snowstorm while chasing her dog Toto, they're transported to the mysterious Land of Oz, where she's informed that the only way she can find her way home is through the assistance of the powerful wizard in the Emerald City. As she searches for him by easing down the Yellow Brick Road, she befriends some creatures who face problems in their lives. In their quest to find the wizard, they also face Evillene, the equally evil sister of Evermean, the wicked witch whom Dorothy inadvertently killed when she arrived in Oz; Evillene might be their biggest obstacle.
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The Walking Dead
( 1995 )
1972 Vietnam, a small group of United States Marines relive flashbacks of their contrite lives prior to serving in the military while being left to survive behind enemy lines.
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The Toy
( 1982 )
An underemployed reporter finds himself literally purchased as a toy for a rich spoiled brat.
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The Temptations
( 1998 )
They were the band who were Motown's biggest success story. 'The Temptations' became platinum-selling singers, but the combination of arrogance, cocaine addiction and broken relationships brought them down. The true story behind the legendary Motown musical sensation is brought to life in this touching miniseries.
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door
( 1981 )
A black man plays 'uncle Tom' in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American revolt.
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The Pursuit of Happyness
( 2006 )
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
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The Preacher's Wife
( 1996 )
An angel comes to Earth to help a preacher save his church and his family.
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The Players Club
( 1998 )
A woman must contend with rival strippers and her boss in an attempt to make a legitimate living.
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The Monkey Hu$tle
( 1976 )
A new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party.
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The Mack
( 1973 )
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up King of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
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Them
( 2021 )
Horror anthology series. The first season titled "Them: Covenant" is set in 1953 and centers around Henry and Lucky Emory, who decide to move their family from North Carolina to an all-white Los Angeles neighborhood. The family's home on a tree lined, seemingly idyllic street becomes ground zero where malevolent forces both real and supernatural threaten to taunt, ravage and destroy them.
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The Little Things
( 2021 )
Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe Deacon is sent to Los Angeles for what should have been a quick evidence-gathering assignment. Instead, he becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer who is terrorizing the city.
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The Inkwell
( 1994 )
A shy, troubled young man who set his own house on fire and has an imaginary friend, is sent to a vineyard where he finds himself in the middle of his political-arguing, party-loving family and his love torn between two girls.
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The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2
( 2021 )
When best selling author Carl Black moves his family back to his childhood home, he must team up with oddball neighbors to do battle with a pimp, who may or may not be an actual vampire.
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The Hitter
( 1983 )
An ex-professional boxer (O'Neal) tries to make a new start when teaming up with a fast talking but ageing hoodlum (Ceaser) and an ex-call girl (Frazier) but soon get more than they bargained for when crossing an adversary from their past.
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The Help
( 2011 )
An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.
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The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
( 2019 )
In the 1930s, a black postal carrier from Harlem named Victor Green published a book that was part travel guide and part survival guide. It was called The Negro Motorist Green Book, and it helped African-Americans navigate safe passage across America well into the 1960s. Explore some of the segregated nation's safe havens and notorious "sundown towns" and witness stories of struggle and indignity as well as opportunity and triumph.
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The Great Debaters
( 2007 )
A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.
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The Five Heartbeats
( 1991 )
The story of the rise and fall of an African American vocal group.
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The Fighting Temptations
( 2003 )
A New York advertising executive travels to a small Southern town to collect an inheritance but finds he must create a gospel choir and lead it to success before he can collect.
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The Equalizer 2
( 2018 )
Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, but how far will he go when that is someone he loves?
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The Equalizer
( 2014 )
A man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him cannot stand idly by when he meets a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters.
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The Cotton Club
( 1984 )
The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people who visited the club, those who ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous.
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The Color Purple
( 1986 )
A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.
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The Brothers
( 2001 )
Four friends begin to question women and relationships when one of them announces impending nuptials.
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The Book of Eli
( 2010 )
A drifter fights his way across a ravaged, post-apocalyptic America while protecting a sacred book that holds the secrets to humanity's salvation.
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The Birth of a Nation
( 2016 )
Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.
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The Big Score
( 1983 )
A narcotics detective lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down a major drug dealer.
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The Big Clock
( 1948 )
After murdering someone, a magazine tycoon tries to frame an unknown, innocent man of the murder instead, while the innocent man tries to solve the murder himself.
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The Best Man Holiday
( 2013 )
When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
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The Best Man
( 1999 )
Just before best friend's wedding the life of Chicago writer becomes crazy when his friend guesses that new book's story based on his bride's fervent past.
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The Banker
( 2020 )
In the 1960s, two African-American entrepreneurs hire a working-class white man to pretend to be the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and chauffeur.
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The Arena
( 1974 )
In ancient Rome audiences have grown tired of viewing gladiators fight to the death. Something new is needed--women. (Josiah Howard, "Blaxploitation cinema: The Essential Reference Guide.")
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Talk to Me
( 2007 )
The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the 1960s.
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
( 1973 )
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
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Surviving America
( 2020 )
In the wake of the new Civil Rights Movement it is important to tell Black stories from those who actually live it. Shoot first and ask questions later, lynchings, redlining, policing of hair, food deserts, underfunded schools are just a day in the life struggle of being Black in America.
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Super Fly
( 1972 )
The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.
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Sunday Mornings
( 2021 )
Sunday Mornings is the ultimate tale of a Southern family overcoming life's storms. Told from a black woman's point of view, our heroine, Sunday, takes us on her erratic, yet heart-warming journey of unconditional love, hard-earned friendships, and the shake-able, yet unbreakable bond of sisters.
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Straight Outta Compton
( 2015 )
The group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.
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Spiral
( 2021 )
A criminal mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in Spiral, the terrifying new chapter from the book of Saw.
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Spell
( 2020 )
While flying to his father's funeral in rural Appalachia, an intense storm causes Marquis (Omari Hardwick) to lose control of the plane carrying him and his family. He awakens wounded, alone and trapped in Ms. Eloise's (Loretta Devine) attic, who claims she can nurse him back to health with the Boogity, a Hoodoo figure she has made from his blood and skin. Unable to call for help, Marquis desperately tries to outwit and break free from her dark magic and save his family from a sinister ritual before the rise of the blood moon.
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Southland
( 2009 )
From Emmy Award winners John Wells, Ann Biderman and Chris Chulack comes a raw and authentic look at the police unit in Los Angeles. From the beaches of Malibu to the streets of East LA, Southland is a fast-moving drama that will take you inside the lives of cops, criminals, victims and their families.Michael Cudlitz plays John Cooper a seasoned Los Angeles cop, assigned to train young rookie Ben Sherman. Cooper's honest, no-nonsense approach to the job leaves Sherman questioning whether or not he has what it takes to become a police officer.
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Sounder
( 1973 )
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
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Soul Food
( 1997 )
One person can keep a family together and, when that one person is gone, a family can be torn apart.
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Son of the South
( 2021 )
In this poignant true story set in Montgomery, Alabama, a Klansman's grandson must choose which side of history to be on during the Civil Rights Movement. Defying his family and white Southern norms, he fought against social injustice, repression and violence to change the world around him. SON OF THE SOUTH is from executive producer Spike Lee and based on Bob Zellner's autobiography, "The Wrong Side of Murder Creek."
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Something New
( 2006 )
Kenya McQueen, an accountant finds love in the most unexpected place when she agrees to go on a blind date with Brian Kelly, a sexy and free-spirited landscaper.
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Snowfall
( 2017 )
Los Angeles, 1983. A storm is coming and it's name is crack. Snowfall is a one-hour drama set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and it's ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it. The story follows three characters on a violent collision course: Franklin Saint, young street entrepreneur on a quest for power; Gustavo "El Oso" Zapata, a Mexican wrestler caught up in a power struggle within a crime family; Teddy McDonald, a CIA operative running from a dark past who begins an off-book operation to fund the Nicaraguan Contras and Lucia Villanueva, the self-possessed daughter of a Mexican crime lord.
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Skin Game
( 1972 )
In 1857, con man Quincy Drew and his black friend Jason O'Rourke swindle slave owners into buying Jason, who's a free man, and later share the profits when Jason escapes captivity.
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'Sheba, Baby'
( 1976 )
A Chicago private detective returns back home to Louisville, Kentucky, to help her father fight mobsters.
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Shaft
( 1971 )
A crime lord hires black private eye, John Shaft, to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
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Shaft
( 1973 )
In this short-lived series based on the popular movie and its sequels, John Shaft is the "black private dick" who would risk his life for his brother man.
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Set It Off
( 1996 )
Desperation drives four inner-city women to bank robbery in Los Angeles, then they start mistrusting each other.
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Selma, Lord, Selma
( 1999 )
In 1965 Alabama, an 11 year old girl (Jurnee Smollett) is touched by a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Clifton Powell) and becomes a devout follower. But her resolution is tested when ...
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Selma
( 2015 )
A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
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Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
( 2020 )
This is the untold and highly irreverent story of black hair care pioneer and mogul Madam C.J. Walker and how she overcame hostile turn-of-the-century America, epic rivalries, tumultuous marriages and some trifling family to become America's first black, self-made female millionaire.
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Scream Blacula Scream
( 1973 )
The vampire Mamuwalde (Blacula) is stirred by African voodoo, and is forced to kill again.
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Scott Joplin
( 1977 )
Details the life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
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Rosewood
( 1997 )
A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African-American community.
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Roots of Good Men
( 2018 )
"Roots of Good Men" is a story about life, love, letting go, and living. A single mistake can change a man's life - Or possibly end it.
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Roots
( 1977 )
The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was first told in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The docu-drama covers a period of history that begins in mid-1700s Gambia, West Africa and concludes during post-Civil War United States, over 100 years later. This 1977 miniseries eventually won 9 Emmy awards, a Golden Globe award, and a Peabody award, and still stands as the most watched miniseries in U.S. history.
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Roman J. Israel, Esq.
( 2017 )
ROMAN J. ISRAEL, ESQ. is a dramatic thriller set in the underbelly of the overburdened Los Angeles criminal court system. Denzel Washington stars as Roman Israel, a driven, idealistic defense attorney who, through a tumultuous series of events, finds himself in a crisis that leads to extreme action. Colin Farrell costars as the monied, cutthroat lawyer who recruits Roman to his firm.
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Rise Up, Sing Out
( 2022 )
Animated, music-based shorts provide an inspiring and empowering message about race, culture and community, celebrate differences, and provide a framework for conversation.
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Ricochet
( 1991 )
A District Attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.
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Respect
( 2021 )
Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, RESPECT is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.
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Remember the Titans
( 2000 )
The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.
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Red Tails
( 2012 )
A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.
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Ray
( 2004 )
The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Race
( 2016 )
Jesse Owens' quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
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Posse
( 1993 )
A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for the men who lynched his father.
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Pose
( 2018 )
Pose explores the juxtaposition of several segments of life and society: the underground ball culture, the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe and the downtown social and literary scene that came to define New York in the 1980s.
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Poetic Justice
( 1993 )
In this film, we see the world through the eyes of main character Justice, a young African-American poet. A mail carrier invites a few friends along for a long overnight delivery run.
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Philadelphia
( 1994 )
When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.
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