Movies

An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

Outraged by the treatment of New York City’s unhoused residents, an activist brings national attention to the issue by taking their case to...

A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune....

An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his...

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert...

A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

Dr. Sam Abelman is a Jewish doctor contentedly spending his autumn years serving his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But when his nephew, would-be...

In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.

The story of American track sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who overcame physical handicaps to win three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics.

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

Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War...

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...

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

The hard-working but struggling crew of a shrimp boat discover a sunken treasure. Trouble ensues in this dramatic black-cast production.

Racial tensions come out of the woodwork when an upper-class white couple puts their suburban home on the market and the listing draws a pair of...

After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.

Set in the year 1977, two women look to integrate their small town, inspired by the miniseries "Roots" as it hits the airwaves.

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him...