Brock Peters

Actor Obba Babatundé hosts this biopic showcasing the life of acclaimed African-American singer and actress Dorothy Dandridge, who overcame racism and personal tragedy to become one of the most acclaimed performers of Hollywood's golden age. The film combines rare historical footage of Dandridge, on and off the stage, and interviews with stars such as Laurence Fishburne, Jasmine Guy and Halle Berry discussing her powerful legacy.

À primeira vista os Thornberrys parecem ser uma família normal, formado pelos pais, duas filhas e um animal de estimação. O pai, Nigel (Tim Curry), é apresentador de documentários sobre animais, que por sua vez são dirigidos por sua esposa, Marianne (Jodi Carlisle). Para facilitar o trabalho eles vivem rodando o planeta para realizar seus documentários, carregando junto as filhas Eliza (Lacey Chabert) e Debbie (Danielle Harris), viajando em um ônibus recheado de equipamentos.

In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely denied their civil and economic rights. 10,000 Black Men Named George, the title, refers to the fact Pullman porters were often called "George" by white passengers, which was considered a racial slur.

While traveling to Las Vegas, a young businessman meets a woman who changes his life forever. With Tisha Campbell-Martin, Dana Ashbrook and Mitchell Anderson.

Residents of a black Missouri community experience a long and eventful day of reckoning.

A documentary about the making of "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Myrlie Evers trabalhou para que o racista branco que matou seu marido Medgar, heróico ativista na luta pelos direitos civis da comunidade negra nos Estados Unidos, pagasse pelo crim e que cometeu. Isso ocorreu ao longo de 30 anos e dois julgamentos inconclusivos. O modo como o assassino de Evers finalmente foi condenado pelo crime, chega às telas com uma carga emocional perturbadora em "um dos filmes mais importantes dos anos 90" (Paul Wundler, WBAI-FM/Nova York) Dirigido por Rob Reiner e estrelado por Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg e James Wood (Indicado ao Oscar® por sua poderosa atuação), "Fantasmas do Passado" cuidadosamente recriou detalhes de uma incansável busca por justiça. Também conta com a participaão especial dos três filhos de Medgar Evers e Yolanda, filha do Reverendo Martin Luther King.

In the tradition of The Twilight Zone, this bizarre, thought-provoking trilogy addresses the destiny of the world's minorities: Part I: A conservative African American politician must choose between his people's survival and appeasing his white colleagues when space aliens propose to share their profound knowledge in exchange for all black people on earth. Part II: The Virgin Mary's appearance in an inner-city housing project forces a Hispanic priest to face the hidden cultural origins of Western religion. Part III: On the dawn of the "Black Revolution," an African American couple discovers who the "real" enemy is.

An all-black version of Oscar Wilde's play.

Mostly on account of a pride struggle, Mike Dunmore has lived his whole life keeping a secret which he believed would only cause shame if it came to light. Personal relationships with his son Patrick have been strained as a result. The only ones who ever knew anything about it were his deceased wife and his best friend, Thurgood who he works with, who both agreed to help keep it covered up for him as long as they could. However, when his treasured grandson begins experiencing the same problems, Mike realizes that he can't hide his secret any longer, or if he tried to, it would be most difficult. Even more so when he is endorsed and volunteers to run as a candidate for local election.

Filhote do jacaré cresce de forma gigantesca nos esgotos, atacando em uma pequena cidade.

Após a explosão da lua Praxis os klingons são obrigados a propor um acordo de paz, para garantir a sobrevivência de sua espécie. A tripulação da Enterprise é convocada a escoltar a missão diplomática klingoniana até o local a reunião, mas a nave klingon é atacada e o seu chanceler acaba sendo morto. E tudo indica que o ataque partiu justamente da Enterprise.

After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints the exact location and time of when the long awaited earthquake--"The Big One"--will strike southern California. With this information, she must battle city officials to release this information to the general public. Also, she hopes that her family is out of harms way when the quake strikes. Subplots show how other families and people cope with the the tremors that strike before the impending "Big One."

A órfã Polly muda-se para o Alabama para morar com sua tia. Sua nova casa está inserida em um bairro negro da era da segregação, repleto de conflitos internos. Sendo uma criança pragmática e otimista, Polly tem um efeito edificante em todos aqueles com quem ela entra em contato, incluindo um médico trabalhador. Através de uma combinação de música e esperança, Polly se esforça para unir a comunidade

The true story of Jan Scruggs, an embittered Vietnam veteran who returns from the war a broken man. However, with the help of his loving wife Becky, he begins to find a new life for himself, and a personal goal when he agrees to begin a determined campaign to raise funds for a veteran's memorial.

A man combs Los Angeles for his missing daughter, and discovers she belongs to a gang dealing in crack.

From Hanna-Barbera's animated series depicting the tales of the bible, "Samson and Delilah" tells the story of the warrior Samson and the deception of Delilah.

Marcados como fugitivos pela própria Federação que juraram proteger, os tripulantes da Enterprise volta para a Terra para enfrentar a corte marcial por crimes cometidos ao salvar a vida de Spock. Em seu caminho, contudo, descobrem que o planeta está sendo devastado por uma gigantesca sonda alienígena, que exige uma resposta de uma forma de vida há muito extinta da Terra. Dentro da nave klingon capturada, Kirk e sua tripulação devem voltar no tempo para salvar a Terra e redescobrir o sentido da amizade.

A young man (Gregory Hines) journeys from rags-to-riches thanks to his talented Puss in Boots (Ben Vereen). Starring Ben Vereen, Gregory Hines, Alfre Woodard, George Kirby, and Brock Peters. Narrated by Shelley Duvall.

Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and blood pressure medication before revealing the killer's identity. When it's discovered that the medicine belonged to another guest and the revealing photograph the Major was carrying is missing, Miss Marple realizes that the serial killer has struck again and more murders will follow.

Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this failed and he and others were hanged. Set in Charleston in 1822.

The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on a homemade raft, and their encounter with the Duke and his cohort, Dauphin.

A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring modern medicine to the local folks in the Appalachia of the 1930s and finds herself at odds with the homespun ways of the resident medicine woman.

A Confederate officer kidnaps for a $1,000,000 ransom five well-to-do children from a Yankee boarding school; a wounded black Union soldier helps them escape after they perform the necessary surgery to remove the bullet from his leg. But they are captured again, and it takes a lucky Union army attack to save them.

On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly flu onboard.

Psicopata armado com rifle parte para uma caçada humana apenas por diversão num estádio lotado com 100 mil espectadores. Logo equipes da polícia e da SWAT estão atrás do psicótico assassino. Faltam dois minutos para a partida acabar e a multidão entra em pânico.

Mahalia Jackson was the greatest gospel singer in the world. Shortly before her death in 1972, she embarked on a triumphant European tour, and this film is a record of that tour, and a portrait of a gifted artist and a warm, sincere woman.

Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind bars. By the time he gets out of prison, he's determined to put together the pieces of his frame-up and dole out the justice he was denied to those responsible.

A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.

A military school graduation ceremony is interrupted when a student's dope-smuggling father is killed in the gym.

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.

Homem marcado para morrer perde o amigo em atentado e jura vingança. Irá até o fim, mesmo que tenha de invandir o reduto do chefão da Máfia de Los Angeles e enfrentar seus asseclas.

Em uma Terra futurista superpopulosa, um detetive da polícia de Nova York se vê marcado por assassinatos pelos agentes do governo quando ele fica muito perto de um estranho segredo de estado envolvendo as origens de um revolucionário e necessário novo alimento.

This promotional short film for Soylent Green (1973) begins by showing clips of films that depicted what the future might be like beyond Earth (click the "movie connections" link for the short list). The narrator then discusses the origin of the idea depicted in "Soylent Green": some time in the future, there will be too many people and not enough food to feed them. Director Richard Fleischer and star Charlton Heston discuss how an upcoming crowd scene will be filmed. Then we see what happens when the crowd riots because there is not enough food available to be distributed to everyone. "Soylent Green" was Edward G. Robinson's 101st (and, as it turned out, his last) feature film. During a break in filming, the cast and crew hold a ceremony celebrating the first film of his "second hundred", and Robinson makes appreciative remarks to the crowd. Studio head Jack L. Warner and friend George Burns are among those in attendance.

An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.

An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finally released from the camp, and is discharged from the military, he goes back to his town - but he can find no trace whatsoever of it.

When a black Civil War veteran becomes co-owner of the southern McMasters ranch, the incensed local Confederate veterans come gunning for him and his Indian wife.

Jack Johnson is a 1970 documentary film directed by Jim Jacobs about the boxer Jack Johnson.

Caco (Eli Watch) é um fora-da-lei que está prestes a ter sua sentença de morte executada. Harold, o presidente do banco de El Paso, vai até ele lhe fazer uma proposta: facilitar sua fuga caso ele recupere para o banqueiro o dinheiro que está com a dupla Cat (Terence Hill) e Hutch (Bud Spencer).

Reluctant New York City private eye P.J. Detweiler is hired as a bodyguard to protect Maureen Preble, the mistress of shady millionaire William Orbison. In truth, Orbison plans a deadly intrigue in which P.J. is to play a central part. Meanwhile, complications ensue as P.J. gradually falls in love with Maureen. (Wikipedia)

Survival Devices, Inc are an organisation that employ a team of adventurers known as "the Flying Fish" who are adept in sky diving, scuba diving and martial arts. They are engaged to rescue a captured scientist imprisoned on a Caribbean island by a dictator. The team parachutes off the coast of the island in a HALO jump and establishes an inflatable underwater basecamp in an "Instant Underwater Habitat" or "Igloo".

Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.

Único da família a escapar de um campo de concentração nazista, o judeu Sol Nazerman (Rod Steiger) agora tenta reconstruir a vida nos EUA como comerciante. No entanto, mesmo 40 anos depois, as memórias traumáticas das atrocidades cometidas pelo regime nazista ainda o assombram. Dirigido por Sidney Lumet, o filme foi indicado ao Oscar de Melhor Ator e ao Urso de Ouro no Festival de Berlim.

Durante o último inverno da Guerra Civil, o oficial de cavalaria Amos Dundee lidera uma contingente de soldados do exército, prisioneiros confederados e batedores numa expedição ao México para destruir um bando de Apaches que estão atacando fortes no Texas. 3 versões de montagem: 123 min = Lançamento 136 min = Restauração de 2005 152 min = Director's Cut não lançada

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.

Um capelão da prisão ingênuo, porém caridoso, que por acaso tem o mesmo sobrenome de um clérigo de classe alta, é por engano indicado como vigário de uma pequena e próspera cidade rural. Sua crença na caridade e no perdão o coloca em desacordo com os moradores locais conservadores e tacanhos, e ele logo cria ações sociais nomeando um lixeiro negro como seu sacristão da igreja, recebendo uma família cigana, e persuadindo o dono da terra local a fornecer comida de graça para a igreja distribuir gratuitamente na cidade. Quando os líderes da congregação percebem o erro e pedem para a Igreja da Inglaterra removê-lo, isso acaba sendo uma questão muito, muito difícil - até que um clérigo se lembra que um projeto britânico para enviar um homem ao espaço está precisando de um astronauta. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)

Em 1932, na pacata Maycomb (Alabama), vivem os irmãos Jem e Scout Finch, órfãos de mãe criados pela babá negra Calpurnia e o pai Atticus Finch, advogado íntegro e respeitado na cidade, que atende gratuitamente aos mais pobres. A infância dividida entre a escola e as fantasias acerca do vizinho, o “malvado” Sr. Radley, cede espaço ao contato com a discriminação quando seu pai resolve defender o negro Tom Robinson, acusado de ter estuprado uma moça branca. Gregory Peck ganhou um Oscar por sua brilhante atuação nesta versão para o cinema do romance vencedor do Prêmio Pulitzer.

Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.

A writer reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection after a safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, after Earnest Hemingway's short story.

Situada no início do século XX, no fictício bairro Catfish Row, em Charleston, Carolina do Sul, que abriga uma comunidade de pescadores negros, a história se concentra nos personagens titulares, o mendigo aleijado Porgy, que viaja em um carrinho de cabras e a viciada em drogas Bess, que mora com o estivador Crown, o valentão local. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)

In 1956, BLOOMER GIRL was presented in a live television production starring the magnificent Barbara Cook, whose star was then on the rise, with leading roles in CANDIDE and THE MUSIC MAN still in her future. A solid success when it opened on Broadway in 1944, BLOOMER GIRL boasts a glorious score by the legendary team of Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg (THE WIZARD OF OZ). The book by Fred Saidy is set at the brink of the Civil War and addresses issues of women's equality (priorities were the right to vote and to wear bloomers, a liberating alternative to hoop skirts) and racial equality.

Versão contemporânea da ópera de Bizet, com novas letras e um elenco afro-americano. A história da produtora de cigarros Carmen e do soldado espanhol da cavalaria Don Jose é transposta na história moderna de uma operária de pára-quedas e um soldado robusto chamado Joe, que está prestes a ir para a escola de vôo. O conflito surge quando um campeão do ringue captura o coração de Carmen depois que ela seduziu Joe e o levou a ficar inoperante.