On a Caribbean island, a rich landowner’s son, Maxwell Fleury, is fighting for political office against black labor leader David Boyeur. As if the contentious election weren’t enough, there are…
A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson,…
Examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in US society from 1967 to 1975. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists in the United States during…
A documentary about Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted University of Texas music student who finds herself at the epicenter of racial controversy, struggling against the odds and ultimately ascending to…
Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He’s a tailor, but he can’t work because his back has given out. He…
Robert Altman’s story is a riff on race, class, and power cross-cuts between the two kidnappings and the background of corrupt politics and virtuoso jazz music. It all takes place…
For one week in February 1968, Johnny Carson gave up his chair to Harry Belafonte, the first time an African-American had hosted a late night TV show for a whole…
A chronicle of the final word chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted chief who confronted an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political…
Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby group within this hilarious misadventure as friends Steve and Wardell, that venture uptown into some swanky nightclub. Unfortunately, thieves struck on the club and sneak…
The narrative of this cigarette-maker Carmen along with also the Spanish cavalry soldier Don Jose is interpreted into a modern-day narrative of a parachute mill employee and a stalwart GI…
The narrative occurs in other America where the elephants have been members of social elite, and whites are people of town ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white employee in a…
In 1968 the lifestyles of a retired doorman, hotel director, lounge singer, bus-boy, beautician among many others seep in the aftermath of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination at the Ambassador Hotel…
Most individuals know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer. This movie finds his important contribution to and his management within the civil rights motion in America and to…
Working against the writing of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, manager Raoul Peck creates a meditation about what it means to be Black in the USA.
