A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to…

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…

Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named ‘The House of God’.

Molly Stewart, now a law student at UCLA, is determined to leave her prostitute past behind. After learning that the detective who helped save her life has been murdered, she…

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…

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…

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…

An African dictator (Wole Soyinka) needs to convince the former king (Rashidi Onikoyi) to legitimize his reign by offering him the ceremonial yam at the upcoming harvest festival.

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…

Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.

Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.

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.

A Kentucky slave (Davis) fights for his freedom from a cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins him and the other slaves in their revolt.

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…

For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a…

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.

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…

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…

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.

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…

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…

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

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…

14-year-old Jo Ann Foley lives in squalor in a rural Southern community during World War II. Abused by her bootlegging grandfather Hank, Jo Ann has, like her mother Marie, been…

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,”…

A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen…

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,…

A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot.

Bubba Ho-tep tells the “true” story of what really became of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with…

Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then…

Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a ‘nice place’. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight he is noticed and quickly…

Salvatore “Sal” Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin’ Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria’s Wall of Fame exhibits only…

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…