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Amid an escalating war in Iraq, rising terror levels and the threat of nuclear attack, a growing body of intellectuals, religious leaders and community organizers are getting tough with their questions about peace -- and that's no oxymoron. To shed light on the answers, filmmakers Gabriele Zamparini and Lorenzo Meccoli record a variety of speakers, including Noam Chomsky, Desmond Tutu, Scott Ritter, Pete Seeger, Howard Zinn and Gore Vidal.
Himself
Ossie Davis, Terry McMillan, Horace Julian Bond, Isaac Hayes, Dionne Warwick and many others share their inspiring stories of success in the first installment of this series about African-American history makers, including civil rights leaders, actors and authors. A good education, dedication to work, dogged determination and the courage to take risks figure prominently in these remarkable success stories told by notable African Americans.
Self
An interview/overview on the influential careers of Gordon Parks, Ossie Davis, and Melvin Van Peebles.
Self
A short documentary about the making of Spike Lee's biopic, "Malcolm X."
Judge Buchanan
하버드 MBA 출신으로 제약회사 중역인 존 해리는 그의 상사의 부적절한 비리를 폭로했다가 해고당한다. 밀고자로 낙인 찍혀 일자리를 구할 수도 없게 된 존은 이제 생계를 꾸려나가는 것 조차 어려운 상황. 이때, 코 골고, 빤스는 아무대나 벗어던지고, 스포츠 채널만 주구장창 보는 그를 못 참겠다며 차버렸던 전 애인 파티마가 그녀의 여자친구와 함께 찾아온다. 돈을 지불할 테니 임신을 시켜달라는 것! 말도 안된다며 펄쩍 뛰던 존에게 '수억 만 개 정자 중에 딱 2마리만 달라는 건데.'라며 계속 설득하자 돈이 궁했던 존은 끝내 제안을 받아들이기로 한다. 소문은 삽시간에 퍼지고 아기를 원하는 여자들이 줄줄이 그를 찾기 시작하는데...
Lorenzo DuFau
The true story of the only African-American crew to take a Navy warship into combat in World War II.
Granddad
Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playing his father in the film, Van Peebles offers an unapologetic account of Melvin's brash and sometimes deceptive conduct on the set of the film, including questionable antics like writing bad checks, tricking a local fire department and allowing his son, Mario, to shoot racy sex scenes at the age of 11.
Self
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, it won the Documentary Award at the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival in 2003.
Himself
In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of local slave owners and their families, the eventual execution of 55 rebels and the retribution lynching of more than 200 innocent slaves. Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property examines how the story of Turner’s revolt has been interpreted throughout history and how it continues to raise new questions about the nature of terrorism and other forms of violent resistance to oppression. The film adopts an innovative structure by interspersing documentary footage and interviews with dramatizations of these different versions of Turner’s story. A unique collaboration between MacArthur Genius Award feature director Charles Burnett, acclaimed historian of slavery Kenneth S. Greenberg and Academy Award-nominated documentary producer Frank Christopher, Nat Turner is a compelling look at one of history’s most mysterious figures.
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors were transcribed and preserved by the Library of Congress. These first-person anecdotes, ranging from the brutal to the bittersweet, have been brought to vivid life in this unique HBO documentary special, featuring the on-camera voices of over a dozen top African-American actors.
Reverend 'Rev' Gregory
Inspired by a true story, this drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Despite the Act, the African-American citizens of Bogalusa are still treated like third-class citizens, their fundamental rights as human beings persistently trampled by the white power structure, in general, and the local branch of the KKK. The story follows the formation of local black men, particularly ex-war veterans who after the struggles become too overbearing organizes the group, "Deacons for defense", an all-black defense group dedicated to patrolling the black section of town and protecting its residents from the more violent aspects of "white backlash."
Self
Panel discussion about the original Broadway production of Lorraine Hansbury's "A Raisin in the Sun."
John F. "Jack" Kennedy
스타덤에서 벗어나고 싶어하는 엘비스 프레슬리가 다른 사람의 아이덴티티를 빌어 탈출을 시도했다면? 그리고 아직도 그가 살아있다면... 예리한 코미디와 고전적인 괴물 영화에서 영감을 얻은 이 작품에서 초현실적인 호러영화 의 컬트 배우 부르스 캠벨은 엘비스가 다시 환생한 듯한 연기를 보여주고 있다.
Jean-Jacques
Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression.
Narrator
From the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning PBS series NEIGHBORHOODS: THE HIDDEN CITIES OF SAN FRANCISCO comes the remarkable story of San Francisco's Fillmore District. Remembered today mainly for its rock & roll auditorium, the Fillmore District is one of the great cautionary tales of American urban life. From the wholesale removal of Japanese Americans during World War II, to the jazz heyday of the 1950s, to the bulldozers of urban renewal, the Fillmore District has seen its share of drama.
Julius (voice)
The night a mysterious stranger rode into the lonely prairie town of West Sage, no one realized their lives would never be the same.
Yar (voice)
기원전 6500만년 백악기 시대에 카르노타우르스가 이구아노돈(금룡)의 서식지를 습격하여 부화 직전인 이구아노돈 알이 전부 짓밟힌다. 그 알들 중 하나가 우여곡절 끝에 여우원숭이들이 사는 아득히 먼 섬에 떨어진 뒤 알에서 부화하여 알라다라는 이름을 얻어 행복하게 산다. 어느날 거대한 유성이 지구와 충돌하여 섬은 파괴되지만 알라다는 간신히 살아남는다. 그리고 피난 중에 다이너소어 무리와 만나 합류하게 된 알라다는 거기서 니라를 만나 사랑에 빠진다. 카르노타우르스의 공격과 식량이 바닥난 상황에서 다이너소어 무리는 알라다를 중심으로 분열을 극복과 갈등을 극복하고 사랑과 협동으로 위기를 헤쳐나간다.
Buck McHenry
When an 11 year old boy gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team.
Self
A documentary look at the confluence of the Red scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles on radio, television, and stage. It begins in Harlem, measures the impact of Paul Robeson and the campaign to bring him down, looks at the role of HUAC, J. Edgar Hoover and of journalists such as Ed Sullivan, and ends with a tribute to Canada Lee. Throughout are interviews with men and women who were there, including Dick Campbell of the Rose McLendon Players and Fredrick O'Neal of the American Negro Theatre. In the 1940s and 1950s, anti-Communism was one more tool to maintain Jim Crow and to keep down African-Americans.
For the millennium New Year, Steven Spielberg agreed to create a 21 minute montage, supported by powerful narrations. It was a one-time performance. It tracks the good and the bad of our United States as it traveled through the ending century and millennium.
The Caretaker
Enchanting holiday tale of a young runaway who has broken into an old movie palace, looking for shelter on a snow-filled Christmas Eve. Closed for decades, the building is filled with countless discarded artifacts from the past. The girl is discovered by the old caretaker, who uses the ghosts and spirits that inhabit this long-abandoned world to turn her life around.
Mordecai
Zachariah, makes a few mistakes and it is decided that he is to live as a human being for thirty days. Mordecai is his supervisor. Rebecca's husband died and Zachariah the soul collector, or, the angel of the death helped him to make the transition between heaven and earth. There are some complications with Rebecca's farm and Zachariah helps her out.
Too Tall
A young girl stuck in a horrific cycle of familial violence finds the power to build her own future from the place she least suspected in an inspiring tale of friendship and devotion starring Ossie Davis and Della Reese, and directed by Bruce Pittman. For years Jo Ann Foley (Madeline Zima) has suffered under the cruel hand of her ruthless grandfather. A chance meeting with kindly neighbors Honey (Reese) and her husband Too Tall (Davis) finds things looking up, however, as the nurturing couple provides Jo Ann with the support needed to break free of her grandfather's tyrannical grip. As the future lies before her ready to be molded however she sees fit, Jo Ann must now find the courage to let go of the past and seek the redemption needed to start life anew.
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Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic champion of the rights of the poor working man, the disfranchised and people of color. He led a life in the vanguard of many movements, achieved international acclaim for his music and suffered tremendous personal sacrifice. His story is one of the great dramas of the 20th century, spanning an international canvas of social upheaval and ideological controversy.
Alexander Billman
John and Ellen have a picture-perfect life: while John runs a successful business, Ellen works as a schoolteacher, and they've raised two beautiful children. But that picture is shattered when Ellen is diagnosed with a devastating disease. The couple's relationship faces its hardest test yet, and before long, John's business starts to suffer and his eye begins to wander after he finds a lovely new jogging partner.
Archer Dolittle
동물의 얘기를 알아듣는 독특한 능력을 타고난 존 두리틀(에디 머피)은 어릴 적 아버지에게 호된 야단을 맞고는 자신의 능력을 까맣게 잊고 성장한다. 어느날 두리틀은 러키라는 개가 하는 말을 알아듣고는 혼란에 빠지는데 이 일을 안 동네의 아픈 짐승들이 모두 두리틀의 집으로 몰려온다. 두리틀은 처음엔 당황하지만 자신이 동물들에게 도움이 된다는 사실에 의사로서의 보람을 새롭게 느낀다. 한편 마크, 진과 함께 운영하던 병원을 의료업계 재벌 캐넷사가 인수하려 하자 두리틀은 처음엔 돈을 벌수 있는 기회라며 좋아한다. 하지만 동물들과 얽히는 과정에서 두리틀은 의사로서 타성에 젖은 자신을 반성하게 된다.
Juror 2
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices.
Self - Actor and Playwright
On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the nation--and a defining moment in the history of the civil-rights movement. Spike Lee re-examines the full story of the bombing, including a revealing interview with former Alabama Governor George Wallace.
Narrator
Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers celebrates the ground-breaking career of the first-ever African-American to join the major leagues, talented athlete Jackie Robinson. The video commemorates the 50th anniversary of Robinson's first major league game day. A tender tribute to the baseball legend, the program combines interviews with Robinson's family and friends, classic sports footage, newsreel clips, and black-and-white photographs from Robinson's life and stellar career.
Mr. Evers
The true story of the US Government's 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed.
Self
A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.
Midge Carter
팔순의 고령에도 불구하고 여전히 젊음을 과시하는 내트(Nat Moyer: 월터 매튜 분)는 거침없는 말솜씨와 뛰어난 재치의 소유자로, 끊임없이 사고를 일으키는 트러블 메이커이다. 참견과 간섭, 서기를 주저하지 않는 그는 양로원, 슈퍼마켓 할 것 없이 좌충우돌 크고 작은 사고를 일으키는데, 그 때마다 곤욕을 치르는 사람은 바로 내트의 딸이다. 그녀는 내트가 양로원에 들어가 편안한 노후를 보내기를 원하지만 아직도 혈기왕성한 내트의 고집을 꺾을 수 없다. 그런 내트가 자주 찾는 곳은 뉴욕의 명소 센트럴 파크. 오갈 곳 없는 노인에서부터 매일 섹스폰을 불고 있는 무명의 연주자와 공원 주위를 스케치하는 젊은 여성까지 센트럴 파크는 다양한 사람들의 편안한 쉼터가 되는 곳이다. 그중 카터(Midge Carter: 오시 데이비스 분)도 센트럴 파크를 찾는 수많은 사람들 가운데 한 사람으로, 매일 공원의 벤치에 앉아 신문 읽는 것을 낙으로 삼고 있다. 그러던 어느 날, 다른 날과 마찬가지로 공원의 벤치에 앉아 신문을 읽고 있던 카터의 옆자리에 내트가 앉게 되면서 두 사람은 서로의 이야기를 하면서 금세 가까워진다. 그러나 내트가 카터의 사적인 문제에 사사건건 간섭하기 시작하고 카터는 그런 내트를 달가워하지 않는다. 그런데, 불의를 보면 참지 못하는 내트의 성격 탓에 두 사람의 생활도 편안하지만은 않다. 급기야 내트는 칼을 든 불량배에게 겁없이 달려들다 부상을 입게 되는데 .
Jeremiah
Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a laid-off aircraft worker, a man whose at-risk son is handcuffed to him, a black Republican, a former gangsta, a Hollywood actor, a cop who is of mixed racial background, and a white bus driver. All make the trek discussing issues surrounding the march, including manhood, religion, politics, and race.
Dr. Winston
Karen Garrett, a promising young doctor, is assigned to perform a difficult operation on Teach, an advanced android who has never "blanked" (had his memory erased.) She soon realizes that Teach is much more than an assignment, and is drawn to his desire for a very human life. When Karen takes Teach into the outside world, they soon discover that there is something far more mysterious and dangerous than a medical experiment planned for them.
Uncle Phil
Ray investigates the murder of a judge.
Harry Roosevelt
트레일러 주택에 사는 형제 마크와 리키는 엄마 다이앤이 출근한 후 숲에 들어갔다가 자살하려는 한 남자를 만난다. 마크가 그의 자살을 방해하자 술에 취한 그는 자신이 로미 클리포드라는 변호사인데 마피아가 죽인 상원의원의 시체가 있는 곳을 알게 되었으며 그 때문에 칼날 배리란 자가 자신을 죽일 것이 두려워 자살한다고 말한다. 로미 클리포드의 자살 장면을 목격한 충격으로 동생 리키는 말을 잊는 신경증에 걸린다. 로미의 자살을 신고한 마크는 언론의 관심을 끌게 되고 즉시 그를 만나기 위해 루이지애나에서 날아온 지방검사 폴트리그는 마크가 시체의 소재를 알고 있다고 직감한다. 그러나 마크는 입을 다문다. 어린 소년이지만 마피아가 무엇인지 알기 때문이다. 칼날 배리 멀다노를 기소하기 위해서 보예트의 시체가 필요한 폴트리그는 마크를 추궁하지만 이미 한차례 마피아의 협박을 받은 마크는 변호사가 필요하다고 느낀다.
Uncle Phil
Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.
Self
Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood, through his rise in the ranks of the Nation of Islam, to his 1965 assassination.
Narrator
Join tennis greats John McEnroe and Billie Jean King and world leader Nelson Mandela as they pay homage to the life and work of Arthur Ashe, the sports legend who transcended his athletic gifts and grew to become one of the most inspirational celebrities to lend their name in the fight against racism and the race to find a cure for AIDS. Ashe developed the incurable illness after contracting HIV through blood transfusions.
Chuck
56년 동안 담 하나를 사이에 두고 헐뜯으며 살아온 두 홀아비 노인들은 매력적인 과부가 길 건너로 이사오자 두 노인은 모두 그녀의 매력에 빠지고, 이제는 아예 원수가 되고 만다.
Detective in Squad Room
데븐(Devon Butler: 노만 D. 골든 2세 분)은 할머니와 사는 여덟살짜리 꼬마다. 경찰 놀이를 좋아하는 데븐은 매일 학교에서 덩치들에게 괴롭힘을 당하는데, 어느날 닉 맥케나 형사(Nick McKenna: 버트 레이놀즈 분)가 마약범 잡는 걸 구경하다가 그 현장을 도망치는 까만색 링컨차의 차 번호를 적어둔다. 진짜 경찰처럼, 후에 그 차를 또 보자 차를 뒤쫓아 어느 창고에 가게 되고 그곳에서 살인을 목격하게 된다. 차 번호를 알려주는 대신에 닉과 경관이 되고 싶다고 한다. 어쩔 수 없이 어린애와 함께 행동하게 된 닉은 모든 것이 못마땅하다. 그러나 시간이 지나면서 데븐에게 정을 느끼게 된다. 마약단 두목의 신발을 목격했던 데븐은 자기 집을 찾아온 학교의 새 지도교사가 마약단 두목임을 알고 경찰에 알린다. 결국 다시 닉이 데븐을 보호하게 되고 그들에게 잡혔을 때 닉이 나타나 구해 준다.
Narrator
Goin’ Back to T-Town tells the story of Greenwood, an extraordinary Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that prospered during the 1920s and 30s despite rampant and hostile segregation. Torn apart in 1921 by one of the worst racially-motivated massacres in the nation’s history, the neighborhood rose from the ashes, and by 1936 boasted the largest concentration of Black-owned businesses in the U.S., known as “Black Wall Street.” Ironically, it could not survive the progressive policies of integration and urban renewal of the 1960s. Told through the memories of those who lived through the events, the film is a bittersweet celebration of small-town life and the resilience of a community’s spirit.
Grandfather
Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.
Frederick Douglas (voice)
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
Eulogy Performer (voice)
말콤X(덴젤 워싱턴)는 젊은 시절에는 말콤 리틀이라는 본명을 가진 그저 그런 뒷골목 흑인 건달이었다. 약물을 이용해 곱슬거리는 머리를 펴고 백인처럼 굴고 싶어하던 말콤은 돈을 위해 마약 밀매에 관여하다 경찰에 체포된다. 말콤은 감옥 안에서 비로소 이슬람교의 교리와 흑인 인권 사상을 접하고 스스로 이름을 말콤 X로 바꾼다. 흑인의 잃어버린 뿌리를 찾을 때까지 성을 'X'라고 정한 것이다. 마틴 루터 킹 목사와 달리 보다 급진적인 흑인 인권 운동을 주장하던 말콤 X는 차츰 적이 늘어나고 결국 연단에서 암살당한다.
Noah
더이상 중류 계층의 도시 외곽 지역에 살 수 없게 된 토미와 그의 아버지는 어두운 그림자가 드리워진 도시의 남부로 이사하게 되는데, 이곳은 지미 호온 이라는 포로모터에 의해 불법으로 벌어지는 시합에서 싸우는 거리의 부랑아들이 판을 치고 있는 곳이다. 전 라이트 헤비급 챔피언이었던 지미 호온은 그의 선수들을 일시적인 투사로 취급하며 미래의 영광을 약속하면서도 전혀 그 약속을 지키지 않는다. 그의 가장 강력한 무기는 바로 길거리에서 벌어지는 인종간의 긴장상태이다. 그는 그것을 이용해 자신이 벌어지는 시합에 불을 붙이는 것이다. 그것이 바로 링에서는 그 어떤 무엇도 가능한 전쟁과 같은 행동을 불러 일으키는 그의 술책인 것이다. 후에 '위대한 백인의 영웅'이라 불리우는 토미가 나타남에 따라 참가자와 도박으로 부터 들어오는 수입의 증가를 노리기 위해 새로운 챔피언을 물색하던 호온은 음모를 꾸미게 된다. 그는 특히 토미의 백색피부가 자신이 거느리는 다른 흑인과 스페인계의 부랑아들과의 즉각적인 반감을 일으킬 거라는 생각을 하는데...
Self
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
Reverend Purify
금슬 좋고 가정에 충실하며, 인정받는 중견 흑인 건축가 플리퍼(웨슬리 스나입스 분), 그는 흑인으로서의 자부심을 가지고 살아가지만 유색 인종으로서의 콤플렉스가 잠재해 있어 백인 여성에 대한 호기심을 떨쳐 버리지 못한다. 그러던 어느 날 우연한 기회에 이태리계 여비서 앤지(애너벨라 쉬오라 분)와 혼외정사를 갖게 되고 이로 인하여 백인계 회사에서의 처세가 어렵게 되자 자의반 타의반으로 회사를 그만두고 독립을 꿈꾼다. 한편, 이태리 빈민가의 하층 생활에 염증을 느끼던 앤지는 플리퍼와의 관계를 친구들에게 고백하지만 유색인종에 대한 혐오감을 갖고 있는 친구들은 경악한다. 이 사실을 알게 된 앤지의 가족들 역시 앤지를 구타 하면서 집에서 내쫓는다. 졸지에 거리로 쫓겨난 이들은 일시적으로 동거를 하게 되나, 사회 도처, 가는 곳곳마다 받게 되는 경멸과 혐오, 그리고 원초적인 피부색의 차이에서 오는 갈등을 극복하지 못하고 끝내는 본래의 위치로 돌아가게 된다.
Marshall
전직 소방수였다가 그만두고 지금은 별볼일 없는 직장에서 주급 300달러의 봉급 생활을 하는 죠 뱅크스(톰 행크스 분)는 어느날 의사로부터 뇌종양으로 6개월 선고를 받고 직장을 그만 둔다. 항상 우울함에 빠져 삶의 의욕을 잃고 있던 죠는 그동안 자신이 너무나 무의미하게 세월을 허비했음을 깨닫고 직장 동료인 디디(맥 라이언 분)에게 접근하는 등 그동안 하지 못한 일로 남은 생을 즐기며 살려고 한다. 그런데, 의사로부터 알고 왔다는 노신사 재벌 그래즈모어씨로부터, 남태평양의 위포니올이라는 섬에 가서 그곳에 있는 화산의 폭발을 막기 위한 제물로서 화산에 뛰어들 영웅이 되어달라는 제안을 받고 계약을 한다. 목숨의 대가로 받은 신용카드로 이것저것 여행 준비를 하고는 LA로 가는데 그래즈모어의 딸 안젤리카(맥 라이언 분)가 마중을 나와있다. 또 배로 자신을 섬으로 데려다 줄 그녀의 이복 동생 패트리시아(맥 라이언 분)를 만나게 되어 요트를 타고 항해를 시작하는데.
In this animated contemporary interpretation of a Hans Christian Andersen morality tale, a pair of magic slippers help two young African-American girls learn the value of friendship after they are divided by selfishness and jealousy.
Self
The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
Da Mayor
뉴욕의 하렘, 이탈리아인의 피자 가게에서 일하는 무키는 여자 친구와 아기를 위해 묵묵히 돈을 벌어야 한다. 브루클린의 다른 흑인들은 여름의 찌는 무더위 속에서 거리를 배회하며 자신들의 독특한 행동만 계속한다. 우연찮게 발생한 이탈리아인과 흑인들의 충돌, 조용하던 무키의 분노가 폭발하면서 피자 가게는 난장판이 되고 불이난다. 소방대원들은 물줄기를 불타는 가게가 아닌 흑인들에게 쏘고, 사건의 진상 조차 조사하지 않고 무조건 흑인들을 구타, 연행하는 경찰, 경찰의 폭력에 의해 라디오 하임은 사랑과 증오가 얽힌 눈으로 죽어가는데...
Coach Odom
아틀란타에 있는 '미션 칼리지'는 흑인들만 다니는 학교로 오랜 역사를 자랑한다. 미션 칼리지의 학생 다프(로렌스 피쉬번)는 남아프리카의 재정 지원에 학교 당국이 참여하는 것을 호되게 반대하는 시위의 선두에 선다. 그는 남아프리카의 인종 차별 정책이 종식되어야 한다고 주장하기도 한다. 다프의 사촌 하프-핀트(스파이크 리)역시 미션 칼리지의 학생. 하프-핀트는 엘리트 남학생 클럽인 '감마'에 가입하고 싶어 안달하고 있다. '감마'클럽의 리더 줄리앙(지안카를로 에스포지토)와 다프는 적수 지간이다. 특히 다프는 줄리앙을 몹시 혐오하는데 사실 전에 두 사람은 친구 사이였다. '감마'가 줄리앙을 180도 바꾸어 놓고, 정치의식이 다프를 180도 바꾸어 놓기 전에 말이다. 줄리앙은 '감마'클럽에 들어오고 싶어 하는 하프-핀트에게 짖궂은 장난도 치지만 하프-핀트는 이에 굴하지 않는다. '감마'클럽과 연관되어 있는 여학생 클럽의 학생들은 흑인이지만 비교적 흰 피부를 가졌다. 그리고 다프와 친한 여학생 클럽은 검은 피부의 흑인 학생들이다. 이 두 여학생 클럽 또한 서로 라이벌 관계에 있다. 두 클럽의 리더인 레이첼(키미)과 제인(티샤 켐벨)은 만나기만 하면 으르렁대는 앙숙이다. 다프는 모욕을 당하고도 참는 하프-핀트를 보고 속이 터지지만 그를 위해 줄리앙을 찾아가 하프-핀트를 회원으로 받아 들여 줄 것을 부탁한다. 회원이 되는 통과의식을 치른 하프-핀트는 드디어 고대하던 '감마'클럽의 회원이 되어 줄리앙의 여자 친구였던 제인과 잠자리까지 같이 하게 된다. 학교 댄스파티가 있던 날 각각의 두 집단 간의 대립은 극에 달하고 다프는 모든 학생들에게 '깨어나라'라고 각성의 소리를 외친다.
Anansi the Spider (Sleepytime Songs and Stories) (voice)
Bedtime Stories & Songs is a 1986 Sesame Street direct-to-video compilation, released on VHS as part of the My Sesame Street Home Video label. The video was re-released with different segments under the new title of Sleepytime Songs & Stories in 1996, and on DVD in 2005. The framing story involves Big Bird speaking to the audience, offering advice on the best ways to fall asleep. A Honker and her baby stop by, and Telly arrives for a sleepover with heaps of cuddly toys that he couldn't sleep without. Buster the Horse demonstrates how to fall asleep standing up and Susan comments from her apartment window.
Capt. Harry Moradian
Molly, former baby prostitute "Angel" from Sunset Boulevard, has managed to leave her street life with help of Lt. Andrews. She studies law at an university and aims to become attorney. When she learns that Andrews was shot during a failed observation by brutal gangsters, she returns downtown to take revenge
Himself
"Tyler Texas Black Film Collection" (1985) is a promotional film hosted by Ossie Davis.
Raymond
홀아비인 해리(폴 뉴먼)는 공사 현장에서 크레인을 운전하며 생활하는데, 그는 남성다움을 중요한 미덕으로 생각하는 권위적인 아버지다. 하지만, 아들 하워드(로비 벤슨)는 낮에는 세차장에서 일하면서, 밤에는 문학가를 꿈꾸며 습작을 쓰며 꿈을 키우는 감성적인 젊은이다. 해리는 국가의 발전에 큰 공헌을 하고 있다는 자부심을 가지고 있고, 동료나 아들이 자신을 좋아한다고 믿는다. 그러나 해리와 하워드는 가치관의 차이를 극복하지 못하고 계속 갈등하게 된다. 그러나 해리의 건강이 악화되면서 더 이상 일을 할 수 없게 되자 큰 절망감에 빠지는데..
Narrator
A documentary, combining archival material and live interviews with Marcus Garvey, Jr., and others, which introduces the life and work of the pioneer Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey.
Dr. Sanders
Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.
Writer
This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the NAACP. Fighting segregation and racist politics, Evers becomes a leader in the black community.
Musical
Based on Davis' 1961 play Purlie Victorious (which was later translated into the 1963 film Gone Are the Days! and which included all of the original Broadway cast, including Ruby Dee, Alan Alda, Beah Richards, and Godfrey Cambridge), Purlie is a musical with a book by Ossie Davis, Philip Rose, and Peter Udell, lyrics by Udell, and music by Gary Geld. It won two Tony Awards and was also nominated for Best Musical.
This 1981 television adaptation is directed by Rudi Goldman and stars Broadway cast members Guillaume, Moore, Hemsley, and Hopkins, with Brandon Maggart as Cotchipee, Clarice Taylor as Idilla, and Don Scardino as Charlie. The production won a CableACE Award.
Chuffy Russell
The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball, to his emergence at age 43 in the major leagues with the Cleveland Indians the year after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier.
After breaking ties with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X became a man marked for death...and it was just a matter of time before his enemies closed in. Despite death threats and intimidation, Malcolm marched on - continuing to spread the word of equality and brotherhood right up until the moment of his brutal and untimely assassination. Highlighted by newsreel footage and interviews, this is the story of the last twenty-four hours of Malcolm X. Featuring the music of jazz percussionist Max Roach.
Blaine Whitfield
Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career. The friendship between two families -- one white, one black -- and their sons, who are buddies, provides the microcosm of this major social issue that has been argued for several decades.
Narrator
Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.
Captain John Geiberger
When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their targets. They take over a pawn shop where thieves go to unload their merchandise. They record them as they bring stuff in and get them to tell them where they got it. Eventually they're threatened by the mob.
Benjamin Banneker
The story of Benjamin Banneker, the early American patriot whose achievements rival those of Benjamin Franklin!! Risking his life, working with the Underground Railroad to elude vicious slave catchers!
Dr. Fredericks
A young ghetto kid despairs of ever getting out of that environment and making something of himself, until one day he gets a job as an assistant in a veterinarian's office, and working with all the animals begins to affect his outlook on life.
Reed
Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis, were willing to "just follow orders" and do horrible things to others. Professor Stephen Turner leads students to believe that they are applying increasingly painful electric shocks to other subjects when they fail to perform a task correctly, and is alarmed to see how much pain the students can be convinced to inflict "in the name of science."
Screenplay
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
Director
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
Ernest Motapo
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
Elder Johnson
Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match.
Narrator
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
Director
A black soldier comes home to Harlem after a tour in Vietnam and discovers that his wife had become a heroin addict and died of an overdose. Infuriated, he gathers three of his ex-GI buddies and they lay out plans to fight the drug dealers.
Director
An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
Eulogy (voice)
James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.
James Lucas
A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student.
Screenplay
Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa. When New York City police officers Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson look into O'Malley's scam, they learn that the cash is being smuggled inside a bale of cotton. However, the police, O'Malley, and lots of others find themselves scrambling when the money goes missing.
Director
Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa. When New York City police officers Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson look into O'Malley's scam, they learn that the cash is being smuggled inside a bale of cotton. However, the police, O'Malley, and lots of others find themselves scrambling when the money goes missing.
Narrator
An African dictator (Wole Soyinka) needs to convince the former king (Rashidi Onikoyi) to legitimize his reign by offering him the ceremonial jam at the upcoming harvest festival.
Director
An African dictator (Wole Soyinka) needs to convince the former king (Rashidi Onikoyi) to legitimize his reign by offering him the ceremonial jam at the upcoming harvest festival.
Osmond Portifoy
This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: "The Cemetery," directed by Boris Sagal; "Eyes," directed by Steven Spielberg; and "The Escape Route," directed by Barry Shear. This film also served as a backdoor pilot for the TV series of the same name, which premiered on December 16, 1970.
Luke
A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.
Jed Hooker
조폐국에서 훔친 금괴를 둘러싼 코믹 웨스턴.
Charles Carter
Hamilton Cade is an alcoholic teacher striving to put his life back together. He accepts a job tutoring an "exceptional child" only to find that young Freddie is mentally retarded (an outstanding performance by retarded actor Billy Schulman). A black man who works for Freddie's father also becomes interested in teaching the child, and becomes a second role model for him.
"The Fall" depicts certain scenes in New York City between October 1967 and March 1968, shot by the independent filmmaker, Peter Whitehead. It is a very personal documentary, and Whitehead appears in a large number of scenes, and we hear his lengthy ruminations on the state of the United States and the war in Vietnam.
Joseph Lee
Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.
Narrator
The Black middle class, torn between white goals and Black needs, are examined by producers William Greaves and William Branch in a 90-minute NET Journal documentary.
Lt. Wagner
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies start dropping and the savvy P.I. is the primary suspect in an attractive woman's death. This NBC TV movie served as a pilot for the later series.
Narrator
Produced in collaboration with Malcolm X and narrated by Ossie Davis, this call to arms layers revolutionary text from multiple sources with gritty, shot-on-the-streets-of-New York footage of African-American struggle. A forgotten masterpiece from radical filmmaker, theorist and founder of Cinéma Éngagé, Édouard de Laurot.
Nelson Davis
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
Jason King (archive footage)
Promotional film depicting the production and Cannes premiere of the Sidney Lumet film "The Hill."
Jason King (archival footage)
Promotional film depicting the production and Cannes premiere of the Sidney Lumet film "The Hill."
Jacko King
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
Capshaw
A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot.
Father Gillis
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal. Photochemical preservation by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Writer
A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cousin in order to secure the family inheritance. To aid in the comic complications that follow are his family members Missy and Gitlow, and the plantation owners endearing (but ineffectual) son Charlie.
Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson
A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cousin in order to secure the family inheritance. To aid in the comic complications that follow are his family members Missy and Gitlow, and the plantation owners endearing (but ineffectual) son Charlie.
Narrator (voice)
The work of sculptor Inge Hardison is the subject of this beautiful short portrait of an artist. Hardison is perhaps best known for "Negro Giants in History," her important series of busts made during the early 1960s. Hands of Inge was edited by Hortense "Tee" Beveridge, a pioneer in her field who worked in the commercial industry and on independent, non-commercial films such as Amiri Baraka's 1968 film "The New-Ark". In the mid-1950s Beveridge became the first Black woman to gain admission to Local 771, the motion picture editors union.
Cab Driver (uncredited)
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.
John Brooks (uncredited)
Robbers Ray Biddle and his brother are shot and taken to the local hospital. There, the two are treated by Dr. Brooks, the hospital's only black doctor. The brothers assault Brooks with racist slurs. And, when his brother ends up dying on the operating table, Ray accuses the doctor of murdering him. Blind with rage, Ray works to turn the white community of the city against Brooks, who finds an unlikely ally in the dead man's widow, Edie.
