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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.
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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.
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An interview/overview on the influential careers of Gordon Parks, Ossie Davis, and Melvin Van Peebles.
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A short documentary about the making of Spike Lee's biopic, "Malcolm X."
Judge Buchanan
Executivo é demitido por denunciar negócios escusos de sua empresa. Sua ex-namorada o contrata para ser o pai do bebê que ela pretende ter com sua atual companheira, e ele vê aí uma oportunidade fácil de ganhar dinheiro.
Lorenzo DuFau
The true story of the only African-American crew to take a Navy warship into combat in World War II.
Granddad
1971. Um homem busca financiamento para realizar um filme mas não consegue. Sua determinação, no entanto, o faz enfrentar todas as dificuldades para fazer o filme que marcaria o início do que ficou conhecido como blaxploitation.
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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
Um dos capítulos mais importantes da história americana e do movimento dos direitos civis. Os afro-americanos de Bogalusa, na Louisiana, ainda são tratados como cidadãos de 3ª categoria, e seus direitos básicos são esmagados pela estrutura do poder branco. Como muitos homens negros da vizinhança, o veterano de guerra Marcus (Forest Whitaker) trabalha em uma fábrica local por um mísero salário e ainda tem que suportar a constante humilhação de seus supervisores brancos. Mas sua paciência passa dos limites quando é espancado pela polícia por defender a sua própria filha.
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Panel discussion about the original Broadway production of Lorraine Hansbury's "A Raisin in the Sun."
John F. "Jack" Kennedy
Bubba Ho-Tep narra a história "verídica" do que realmente aconteceu com Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell). No passado, o Rei do Rock trocou de identidade com um de seus imitadores e acabou impossibilitado de trocar de volta. Assim, todos acreditam que o Elvis que morreu é o verdadeiro, quando na verdade era apenas mais um dos fãs do astro. O Rei vive agora num asilo para velhinhos, onde faz eventuais apresentações. Seu melhor amigo é Jack (Ossie Davis), também morador do local, que garante ser o presidente John F. Kennedy, pintado de negro pela CIA. Os dois valentes heróis geriáticos seguem normalmente suas vidas até que descobrem uma terrível ameaça que precisam impedir juntos: Uma maligna entidade egípcia que volta à vida e decide alimentar-se dos moradores da clínica.
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.
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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)
A jornada do iguanodonte Aladar para encontrar outros seres de sua espécie. Devido a uma série de acontecimentos, o ovo em que nasceu foi separado de sua raça e Aladar precisa agora encontrá-los em meio uma chuva de meteoros flamejantes e cada vez maior escassez de água.
Buck McHenry
When an 11 year old boy gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team.
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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
O filme "Compromisso Precioso" narra a história comovente do amor entre John e Ellen Brighton. Unidos eles enfrentam uma terrível doença impiedosa, o Mal de Alzheimer, que ou confirmará seu amor ou destruirá a família e seu casamento. Aqui há problemas na carreira profissional, nos relacionamentos familiares e uma confusão que só o poder de um amor real pode superar. Phil Brighton, o irmão e sócio de John vivem livres demais para entender porque John mantém assim sua fé e seu casamento diante de circunstâncias tão terríveis. Mas a luta de seu irmão faz com que Phil encontre uma nova esperança. O compromisso de uma fé desafiada pelo impossível e testada pelo irresistível afeta a família inteira. O triunfo do espírito de Jesus numa vida vai inspirar a todos quantos assistirem a este filme maravilhoso.
Archer Dolittle
Após um pequeno acidente, o Doutor John Dolittle recupera o dom de infância de conversar com animais. Mas esta habilidade rara começa a causar muitas confusões na vida do médico, que agora tem que cuidar de macacos embriagados e leões deprimidos que precisam de ajuda. O comportamento estranho de Dr. Dolittle acaba fazendo com que ele vá parar em um hospital psiquiátrico.
Juror 2
Um jovem latino é acusado de cometer um crime. Para julgá-lo são convocados 12 jurados, sendo que 11 concordam que ele é culpado, porém apenas um discorda da decisão, que considera precipitada. Ele terá então que enfrentar a má vontade dos outros jurados e também a diferente interpretação dos fatos. No entanto, todos serão obrigados a rever os fatos e circunstâncias do crime para defender sua decisão.
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Documentário que relembra um dos piores crimes raciais da história americana. Em pleno apogeu dos movimentos por direitos civis, uma bomba explode em uma igreja do Alabama matando quatro meninas negras.
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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
No sul dos Estados Unidos, em 1932, a sífilis havia se tornado uma epidemia entre as comunidades afro-americanas. Preocupado com a rapidez com que a doença se espalha pela região, o governo decide criar um programa de tratamento no único hospital negro da localidade. Infelizmente, o tratamento acaba perdendo seu apoio financeiro e é fechado. A partir daí, tem início uma das mais horríveis traições da história da humanidade. Um grupo de doutores cria um novo programa médico que apenas finge estar tratando a doença. Na verdade, eles estão realizando um estudo sobre o efeito da sífilis em homens negros, para comprovar se eles são biologicamente iguais ou diferentes dos brancos. Durante anos, 600 homens foram submetidos a essa humilhação, iludidos com uma cura que nunca chegaria.
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A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.
Midge Carter
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.
Jeremiah
Grupo de pessoas que não se conhece toma o ônibus rumo a Washington, para participar da Marcha do Milhão de Homens. No caminho, todos se aproximam um do outro e começam a dividir dramas pessoais e políticos, enquanto vivem conflitos e momentos de amizade.
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
Um menino corre risco de vida depois de acidentalmente descobrir informação vital sobre a morte de um político. Ele conta apenas com a ajuda de uma advogada que tenta protegê-lo da máfia e do FBI.
Uncle Phil
Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.
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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.
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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
John (Jack Lemmon) e Max (Walter Matthau) são dois vizinhos que passaram a vida brigando por nada. O principal prazer que eles têm na vida é um provocar o outro e eles não medem esforços para isto. Até que uma bela e extrovertida viúva (Ann-Margret) se muda para perto de suas casas, despertando o amor dos dois e mais uma competição entre John e Max.
Detective in Squad Room
Após testemunhar um crime praticado por uma gangue violenta, um garoto concorda em auxiliar nas investigações se permitirem que ele passe pelo menos um dia na polícia, acompanhando o trabalho de um detetive. Para tomar conta do jovem, é escalado o detetive McKenna, que tem de enfrentar uma série de confusões preparadas pelo menino.
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)
Uma homenagem ao controverso ativista negro e líder da luta pela liberação negra. Ele chegou ao fundo do poço durante seu encarceramento nos anos 50, tornou-se um muçulmano negro e, mais tarde, líder da Nação do Islã. Seu assassinato em 1965 deixou um legado de autodeterminação e orgulho racial.
Noah
Um luta para vencer, o outro luta para sobreviver. Dois amigos são colocados um contra o outro por um promotor de lutas corrupto em uma batalha brutal que ameaça destruir sua amizade e suas vidas.
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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
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
Marshall
Joe Banks (Tom Hanks) é um funcionário entediado de uma fábrica poluente. Sempre de mal humor, ele odeia seu trabalho e, para seu desespero, um dia descobre que tem uma doença terminal e está com os dias contados. É quando ele conhece um milionário disposto a mudar seu destino: Joe ganha uma vida de rei e a "morre como um homem", caso aceite se jogar dentro de um vulcão em erupção para apaziguá-lo. O ritual é tradição na ilha de Waponi Woo. Ao aceitar a proposta, Joe acaba entrando em tanta enrascada que o vulcão torna-se o menor de seus problemas.
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.
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The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
Da Mayor
Em um bairro onde a maioria da população é predominantemente negra, Buggin' Out, um ativista, exige que Sal, um dono de uma pizzaria, troque as fotos de seus ídolos brancos do local por fotos de ídolos negros. Quando tem seu pedido negado, o ativista passa a organizar um boicote contra a pizzaria de Sal.
Coach Odom
Em Mission College, uma universidade de negros sulista, Vaughn Dunlap (Laurence Fishburne) é um estudante sério, que se envolve com problemas estudantis e direciona suas críticas para a atual administração, que considera insensível para sérios problemas. Vaughn está profundamente ligado no sistema de ascensão social das fraternidades. Dunlap é um ativista dedicado, enquanto Meia-Tigela (Spike Lee), seu primo mais jovem, gasta a maioria do tempo tentando ingressar na fraternidade mais popular enquanto tenta achar desesperadamente um envolvimento (e provar que não é virgem). Os dois tentam alcançar suas metas discrepantes e, paralelamente, há um problema racial em conflito dividindo a universidade entre os "Wannabees", os mais claros, e os "Jigaboos", os mais escuros.
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
Prostituta juvenil é tirada das ruas por um policial protetor que a coloca na faculdade. Só que ele é morto por um assassino e ela resolve partir para vigança usando uma Magnum 357.
Himself
"Tyler Texas Black Film Collection" (1985) is a promotional film hosted by Ossie Davis.
Raymond
Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard's lackadaisical lifestyle and has a strained relationship with his daughter Nina as he does not approve of her husband. When Harry is fired from his job, his life changes drastically as he is made to focus on the relationships around him.
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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
Quatro veteranos do Vietnã declaram guerra aos traficantes e cafetões do Harlem.
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
Dois policiais entram em uma reviravolta envolvendo um reverendo suspeito, que organiza viagens para a áfrica para os habitantes do Harlem, bairro predominantemente negro nos Estados Unidos
Director
Dois policiais entram em uma reviravolta envolvendo um reverendo suspeito, que organiza viagens para a áfrica para os habitantes do Harlem, bairro predominantemente negro nos Estados Unidos
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
Sam Whiskey is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura's dead husband stole recently, from a sunken ship and secretly bring them back to the mint before they are missed. But how shall he manage to get several hundred pounds of gold into the mint without anyone noticing?
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
Forçado a trocar suas valiosas peles por um escravo bem-educado, um caçador robusto promete recuperar as peles dos índios e depois dos renegados que os mataram.
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.
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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
Durante a 2ª Guerra Mundial, o exército britânico mantém um acampamento para disciplinar militares, que tenham uma conduta reprovável, principalmente a deserção. Lá, os militares são obrigados diariamente a escalar uma colina, sob o sol escaldante. Um dia chegam 5 novos prisioneiros e cada um enfrentará de modo diferente a autoridade e o sadismo dos seus comandantes.
Capshaw
A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot.
Father Gillis
Um jovem padre católico de Boston enfrenta o fanatismo, o nazismo e seus próprios conflitos pessoais ao subir ao cargo de cardeal. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
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)
Os irmãos Biddle, baleados enquanto roubavam um posto de gasolina, são levados para a ala da prisão do Hospital Municipal; Ray Biddle, um racista radical, não quer tratamento do residente negro Dr. Luther Brooks. Quando o irmão John morre enquanto Lutero tenta salvá-lo, Ray tem certeza de que é um assassinato e se torna obcecado pela vingança. Mas também há racistas negros, e a situação desliza rapidamente em direção à violência. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
