Glynn Turman

Hell bent on avenging the death of his father, Johnny Black vows to gun down Brett Clayton and becomes a wanted man in the process while posing as a preacher in a small mining town that's been taken over by a notorious Land Baron.

Un cuarteto de mejores amigos mayores decide vivir la vida al máximo haciendo un viaje salvaje al Super Bowl LI para ver jugar a su héroe Tom Brady.

A small-town sheriff investigates a gruesome string of missing persons cases with the help of his medical examiner friend.

El crítico de cine estadounidense Elvis Mitchell explora la revolución negra en el cine de la década de 1970, desde películas de género hasta realismo social, desde la creación de nuevas superestrellas hasta el oficio de autores emergentes. Relata sus propias experiencias como espectador mientras detalla las historias cinematográficas y políticas que llevaron a este extraordinario florecimiento de un recién ascendido Heroísmo negro.

A documentary film about the life, times and experiences of eight theatre artists and a theatre critic in the theatre of New York City.

Después de una vida de problemas,un hombre tiene la oportunidad de cambiar las cosas con el amor y el apoyo de su familia. Mientras trata de hacer lo correcto con los suyos, se encuentra volviendo en espiral hacia el lugar oscuro que pensó haber superado.

An intimate look at the Oscar-nominated actor’s incomparable artistry, and the acting process which informed his transformative performances. Viola Davis, Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, George C. Wolfe, Branford Marsalis, Phylicia Rashad and more take us behind the scenes to explore Boseman's extraordinary commitment to his craft.

Viola Davis, Denzel Washington, George C. Wolfe and more share the heart, soul and history that brought August Wilson's timeless play to the screen.

Las tensiones aumentan cuando la pionera Mother of the Blues y su banda se reúnen en un estudio de grabación de Chicago en 1927. Adaptado de la obra de August Wilson.

Una antigua estrella del baloncesto caída en desgracia y sumido en el terrible mundo de las adicciones trata de volver al sendero correcto como entrenador de un equipo de instituto cuya mayor peculiaridad es estar compuesto por un variopinto grupo de estudiantes.

Un futuro papá descubre que tiene cinco hermanos gemelos y emprende un alocado viaje para dar con esa familia que no conoce. Marlon Wayans interpreta a los sextillizos.

A woman dealing with the loss of her husband, the struggle of parenthood and finding work in a new state finds solace in her relationship with an 8 year old physically disabled girl named Justine who she takes care of.

A woman dealing with the loss of her husband, the struggle of parenthood and finding work in a new state finds solace in her relationship with an 8 year old physically disabled girl named Justine who she takes care of.

After watching the news on 9/11 with his family, Fernando travels from Mexico to New York City to find his father, an undocumented worker at the World Trade Center's famous Windows on the World restaurant.

Sexta entrega de la saga 'Transformers', esta vez centrada en el "hermano pequeño" de los Autobots, Bumblebee. Tratando de escapar, en el año 1987, Bumblebee encuentra refugio en un depósito de chatarra en una pequeña ciudad en la costa Californiana. Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld), a punto de cumplir 18 años y tratando de encontrar su lugar en el mundo, descubre a Bumblebee, dañado durante una batalla y descompuesto. Cuando Charlie lo revive, aprende rápidamente que éste no es un VW amarillo ordinario.

Following the death of her father, a 17-year-old girl is sent to live with her estranged family and finds comfort in a questionable friendship with a self-destructive neighbor, leading both on a startling path to self discovery.

A documentary on making the movie JD'S REVENGE.

On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the first-ever black woman to author a play performed on Broadway, she did not shy away from richly drawn characters and unprecedented subject matter. The play attracted record crowds and earned the coveted top prize from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. While the play is seen as a groundbreaking work of art, the timely story of Hansberry’s life is far less known.

Documentary film on events that happened on August 28th in African-American history, shown at the Smithsonian African-American History Museum.

Kelly Lofton is a young, successful dentist who has all the material things a woman could ask for. However, Kelly has struggled to find time for love in her busy schedule, so when her younger sister Susan gets engaged to a seemingly perfect man and organizes an extravagant engagement party, Kelly panics.

En la calle lo llaman "salsa de soja" y transporta a los que la toman a través del tiempo. Sin embargo, cuando algunos regresan ya no son seres humanos. Así es como se produce una invasión silenciosa de la Tierra que hace que la humanidad necesite urgentemente un héroe. Aquí aparecen John y David, un par de desertores de la universidad que apenas son capaces de mantener un trabajo. ¿Podrán estos dos seres aterrados salvar a tiempo a la humanidad?.

A serious health scare ignites John Thomas, an insurance salesman in his 50s, to take a closer look at his life. Motivated by a misguided obsession with getting Barack Obama elected, John takes an overwhelming involvement in the Presidential campaign. While John becomes obsessed with the ideal of change that Obama represents for Americans, he has in turn neglected to create positive change in his own life, particularly with regard to his health and familial relationships. John hides his health problems from his strong, yet supportive wife, Molly, creating a strain on their marriage. John seeks the support of a Republican relative, MLK, who initially starkly resists supporting a Democratic candidate. John's son, Kalil, rebels against his father's avid support of Obama by supporting the Republican candidate as well. John neglects to support his daughter, Tamika, at a crucial moment in her life...

After paying his debt to society, a convicted man is redeemed, called by God to become the pastor of a disgraced church and lead it back to glory. But his past catches up with him and stirs up resentment from his enemies, who launch an assault on his career & his life, getting him put on trial and thrown in jail. Will he resort to his old criminal ways, or stand with God and fight for righteousness?

Año 1979, en un pequeño pueblo de Ohio. Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney) es un muchacho que ha perdido a su madre en un accidente y que vive con su padre policía (Kyle Chandler). Comenzado el verano, y mientras rueda una película de zombis en Super 8 con sus amigos -y sobre todo con la bella Alice Dainard (Elle Fanning)-, Joe observa cómo una camioneta se estrella contra un tren de mercancías, provocando su descarrilamiento y un terrible accidente. A partir de ese momento cosas extrañas e inexplicables comienzan a suceder en el pueblo.

Una chica de pueblo que se traslada a la gran ciudad y entra a trabajar como camarera en un club de variedades. Muy pronto, su objetivo será demostrarle a la encargada del local que ella tiene talento para ser una de las chicas del espectáculo.

Un grupo de ladrones de banco de élite planea su golpe más atrevido después de que un antiguo compañero les convenza para asaltar un camión blindado con mucho dinero.

Preaching To The Pastor is a musical comedy about the controversy going on at High And Mighty Missionary Baptist Church. The Pastor has a dark secret that may cost him his title and his ministry. In the end, everyone needs to be preached to, including the Pastor.

Criminology professor Jonathan Maxwell investigates a murder at a new age retreat where the leader is killed in a locked room surrounded by people in a deep trance.

Homer Hobbs, home after two years in jail, discovers that life on the outside can be crueler than the back-breaking injustice of the chain gang...

El maestro explorador y aventurero Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey) trabaja para una agencia del gobierno que protege los fondos marinos y se embarca en la gran aventura de su vida cuando decide recorrer las regiones más peligrosas del oeste de África a la caza de un tesoro. Pitt busca lo que los lugareños llaman "El barco de la muerte", una nave de la Guerra Civil perdida hace mucho tiempo. Cuando él y su ayudante (Steve Zahn) se dan cuenta de que el barco puede estar relacionado con misteriosas muertes en la misma zona, deben usar su inteligencia y todas sus habilidades para ayudar a la Doctora Eva Rojas (Penelope Cruz), también involucrada en el caso. La doctora Rojas está investigando la expansión de un virus que puede afectar no sólo al continente africano, sino a todo el mundo.

Derrick is a struggling law student who takes a job as an awards show seat filler to make ends meet. One day, he is seated next to the beautiful pop superstar Jhnelle, who mistakes him for a well-known industry executive. With an instant chemistry, the unlikely pair begin to date.

El vuelo comercial 777 de Atlantic Airways ha sido secuestrado. El Coronel Sykes y sus marines rebeldes buscan vengarse de uno de los pasajeros, el Jefe del Consejo de Seguridad Nacional, quién tiene en su poder algo que puede alterar el curso de la humanidad. Todos los pasajeros son encerrados en la bodega, excepto una azafata novata que acaba de finalizar su aprendizaje, Kelly Young. El Capitán Marshall y sus hombres intentarán abordar el avión desde el aire y reducir a los secuestradores con el tiempo en su contra, ya que si no lo consiguen en un plazo determinado, un escuadrón del F-15 tienen orden de atacar al avión, sacrificando a todo el pasaje. (FILMAFFINITY)

A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.

While many celebrities believe their fame gives them good luck with the opposite gender, one man with a successful television career discovers fame is spoiling his chances with the woman he loves in the made-for-TV romantic drama. Holly Aimes (Lark Voorhies) is the daughter of a prominent politician (Glynn Turman), and recently broke off her engagement with a well-known actor. Holly has spent most of her life in the spotlight, and wants nothing more than to be left alone without the glare of public scrutiny. When Holly meets talk show host Michael Williams (Kadeem Hardison), he's soon convinced that she's the woman with whom he wants to share his life, but can he convince her of his sincerity so she will brave another high-profile romance? Based on the popular romance novel by Carla Fredd, Fire and Ice also features Tempestt Bledsoe and Freda Payne. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

La historia de Carl Brashear, un hombre que combatió el racismo y se convirtió en el primer oficial afroamericano de la armada americana. La acción se desarrolla durante más de 30 años, periodo en el que destaca su relación con Billy Sunday , un oficial rebelde de alta graduación y experto buceador que fue degradado por permitir la graduación de Brashear.

Freedom Song (2000) is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle of African Americans to register to vote in the fictional town of Quinlan. In the midst of the Freedom Summer, a group of high school students in the small town are eager to make grassroots changes in their own community. The young activists meet resistance not only from white southerners, but from their parents, who have experienced firsthand the violence that can result from speaking out.[1] As high school students band together with the support of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, they make strides in registering African-American voters and gaining awareness for their cause.

Cuando el profesor de un instituto de escasos recursos del sur del barrio neoyorkino de Queens es despedido de su trabajo, varios estudiantes deciden atrincherarse allí para reclamar su readmisión. Pero la situación pronto comenzará a complicarse cuando, armados, toman como rehén a un guardia del instituto y se ven rodeados de una nube de policías y medios de comunicación.

Stella y Delilah son amigas íntimas de toda la vida. Stella está demasiado ocupada construyendo una vida de la que no ha disfrutado gran parte de sus 40 años, y su amiga se ha propuesto que la situación cambie por completo.

They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, they must walk through it instead of ride. The town dishonors them but the soldiers' Native-American foes do not. Apache leader Victoria and other warriors give the horsemen a name of honor and strength: "Buffalo Soldiers". The troopers' daring hunt for Victorio frames this stirring tribute to the former slaves and other African-Americans of the 9th and 10th U.S. Calvary Regiments. Danny Glover, Mykelti Williamson, Glynn Turman, Carl Lumbly and Michael Warren star in an adventure bringing to light that largely unknown story and the unique moral dilemma the men faced. Atten-hut! "Buffalo Soldiers are riding" through town.

Scuba-diver turned beach-bum Jonathan Slade is forced back into his previous milieu - the world of international espionage - in order to retrieve Black Boxes from an American jetliner that crashed under mysterious circumstances into the Black Sea. With his computer-hacker younger brother, Slade travels to a resort on the Russian-Turkish border to begin his quest. To his surprise and dismay, he's now joined by another secret agent, a beautiful but highly-skilled woman named Alex. As they begin diving in search of the downed jetliner, Slade and Alex begin to suspect they're being manipulated by higher-ups who may not be committed to American interests.

Ten years after the birth of her son, Corey Maddox discovers an awful truth: Her son was switched at birth.

The Inkwell is about a 16-year-old boy coming of age on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1976.

Fishburne es un policía del departamento de narcóticos que se infiltra de incóginto en una banda de narcotraficantes. Una vez dentro, no sólo tratará de cumplir con su trabajo, sino también de escapar de la tentación de la droga.

A 12-year-old genius, poor Max is a washout socially. To impress his girlfriend, he sells the design of his latest invention-a jumping bike-to a major toy company.

Los padres de Daryl Cage se están separando, así que éste deja su granja en Iowa para vivir una temporada con su hermano mayor que reside en Los Angeles, en cuyo aeropuerto ambos recogen la maleta equivocada que meten en su furgoneta, sin saber que contiene un alijo de heroína. Los receptores de la droga caen pronto en la cuenta de la equivocación e inician bajo las órdenes de su jefe Roy Gaddis la búsqueda del vehículo y sus ocupantes para recuperarla cuanto antes. Daryl no esperaba que su aventura en la gran ciudad le ofrecería la oportunidad de ser perseguido por traficantes de estupefacientes y por la misma policía que le acusará de asesinatos que nunca ha cometido.

At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia. White plantation owners fled, and the 10,000 blacks who lived there, almost all of whom were slaves, were freed in the first test of President Abraham Lincoln's dream of emancipation. Charlotte Forten, a 21-year-old educated black woman, helped the freed slaves to begin to build a new society. That experience forms the plot of this drama, based on Charlotte Forten's journals, which was telecast on "American Playhouse."

Chris Jordan es un hombre en plena crisis de los cincuenta. Su depresión le lleva a contratar prostitutas, lo que le hace sentirse más joven. Un día conoce a Elaine y no puede evitar enamorarse de ella. Sin embargo, Elaine tiene otros planes…

Rand es un viajante que un día regala a su hijo Billy una tierna y extraña criatura, un mogwai. El inocente regalo, sin embargo, será el origen de toda una ola de gamberradas y fechorías en un pequeño pueblo de Estados Unidos. Todo empieza cuando son infringidas, una tras otra, las tres reglas básicas que deben seguirse para cuidar a un mogwai: no darle de comer después de medianoche, no mojarlo y evitar que le dé la luz del Sol.

Jonathan Chase is a British college professor at New York University who has the unusual ability to transform into any kind of animal he wants. He decides to use his power to assist the New York Police Department in solving unusual crimes, and in this series pilot, he teams up with cute cop Brooke and war buddy Ty to stop some terrorists from stealing a supply of toxic gas.

Un ex convicto, en libertad bajo palabra y tratando de enderezar su vida fuera, decide retomar su carrera en el boxeo cuando uno de sus enemigos de prisión se escapa y mata a su novia.

The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to force him to confess to stealing secret documents while stationed in Orleans, France, in 1961, led Congress to award him $625,000 in damages nearly 20 years later.

Aclamada dramatización que recrea el motín de 1971 en la prisión estatal de Attica en Nueva York que duró 23 días y resultó en la mayor matanza entre estadounidenses desde la Guerra Civil.

A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.

A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.

Alemania, años 20; un paquete de tabaco cuesta 40 billones de marcos. En Berlín Abel, un trapecista judio norteamericano y alcohólico encuentra el cadáver de su hermano en la habitación que ambos comparten. Se ha suicidado, y Abel se siente responsable de su cuñada, Manuela, que trabaja en un cabaret. Entre ambos surge una relación de mutua dependencia, en un mundo golpeado por la crisis, la violencia y la muerte.

Two black brothers in a traveling minstrel show in the early part of the twentieth century have two different goals. One brother is determined to succeed in a field that is dominated by white performers in blackface, and the other is a composer fighting to break away from the stereotypes associated with black minstrel performers.

A television drama directed by Maya Angelou. In 1975, the accomplished writer became the first African American woman to join the Directors Guild of America in the director’s category. Produced by trailblazing TV executive Barbara Schultz, Visions often focused on complex themes including social justice, feminism, race and sexuality. Executive Producer: Barbara Schultz. Director: Maya Angelou. Writer: Alexis DeVeaux. With: Gloria Jones Schultz, Glynn Turman, Ebony Wright.

Although notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker is shot and killed in the 1940s, his spirit remains restless for three decades, until a hypnotist's supernatural nightclub act allows him to take over the body of a mild-mannered law student and seek revenge on those who got him killed.

An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.

En los años sesenta, un grupo de amigos, alumnos de la escuela superior Cooley, pasan los días estudiando y haciendo gamberradas propias de su edad. Pero un mal día, la muerte de uno de ellos en circunstancias violentas, acaba con las bromas y hace madurar a muchos.

In this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the force before his retirement investigates the murder of his partner.

Russell B. Parker, a former vaudeville hoofer, is a man of big dreams but small ambitions. He hardly works at all in fact, often spending the time incessantly playing checkers with his friend, William Jenkins. Parker lives with Theopolis and Bobby, his two unemployed sons, and Adele, his hard-working daughter. The ghost of his dead wife, a woman who drove herself into an early grave working to support the family, nags at his conscience.

A group of ghetto kids try to find out who killed a popular police officer.

Una clásica protagonizada por Vonette McGee y Max Julien, Thomasine y Bushrod fue pensado como una contrapartida a Bonnie y Clyde. Este par de ladrones, que operan en el sur de Estados Unidos entre 1911 y 1915. Aquí Thomasine y Bushrod roban a ricos, capitalistas blancos, para a continuación, dárselo a los mexicanos, los nativos americanos y los blancos pobres.

Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.

In Sweden, young US soldier, Willy, goes a.w.o.l and teams up with other deserters in Stockholm. There, he meets leftist radical beauty, Inga, who tries to seduce him into joining her extremist group's cause.

Una chica de color de familia adinerada se enamora de un muchacho blanco de familia pobre.

Michael (Jeff Bridges) drops out of college with the intention of finding himself. When his parents (Carl Betz and Vera Miles) balk, he talks them into joining him in traveling the country and educating themselves about the state of things. They, along with Grandma (Ruth McDevitt) trick out an old Greyhound bus and hit the road. The picaresque plotline brings the family into contact with a variety of colorful characters. The producers of In Search of America never declared outright that the made-for-TV film was intended as a series pilot, but it ends on an ambiguous note with plenty of loose plot ends. In Search of America was first telecast March 23, 1971.

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial una escuadrilla de soldados formada íntegramente por combatientes de color, a excepción del oficial al mando, el Capitán Beau Carter (Stephen Boyd), será la encargada de llevar a cabo una misión suicida en la que deberán, internarse en territorio enemigo y, por todos los medios, hacerse con un puente en poder de los nazis o volarlo por los aires.

Gay, civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who organized the 1963 March on Washington.