Howard Rollins (1950–1996) was an American television, film, and stage actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Coalhouse Walker Jr. in Ragtime and Virgil Tibbs on In the Heat of the Night.
Movies7 1981 HD
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other...
Movies6.761 1984 HD
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain...
Movies1 1994 HD
Discusses Malthus's theories of population and the causes of poverty. As film contrasts the 19th century poor in Scotland with today's poor in India,...
Movies1 1982 HD
A neighborhood in Brooklyn reacts to the first black families moving into the community.
Movies3.3 1997 HD
At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first...
Movies1 2004 HD
Memories from the making of the classic Milos Forman film "Ragtime".
Movies6.038 1986 HD
An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug...
Movies5 1982 HD
12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams dreams of going away with her brother and his bride-to-be on their upcoming honeymoon. [Taped live in performance...
Movies1 1983 HD
This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of...
Movies3 1979 HD
An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter a horse to salvage their relationship. When Frank is...
Movies1 1984 HD
A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle...
Movies1 1986 HD
Focuses on young Martin Luther King Jr.'s early encounters with prejudice and how the love and courage of his family moved him to speak out against...
Movies1 1990 HD
A stripper and a vice squad lieutenant become romantically involved in this contemporary drama set in the adult entertainment zone in 1980s...
Movies1 1996 HD
During a Kwanzaa celebration, a recovering drug addict who now counsels drug users inspires the residents of a Brooklyn housing project to apply the...
Movies6 1981 HD
The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to force him to confess to stealing secret documents...
Movies5 1984 HD
A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.
Movies4.7 1992 HD
A real estate agent is shot while trying to sell a rural farm and tries to bring the shooter to justice.
Movies5 1986 HD
A police officer is called by F.B.I. to infiltrate into gang of arms smugglers.
Movies6 1984 HD
Advertising executive, Alex Grier, is fired and is unable to find another position, being over-qualified. His wife, Annabelle, with no experience, is...
Movies10 1978 HD
Henry Flipper is the first black West Point graduate. Assigned to serve at Fort Davis in Texas, Flipper becomes the object of a conspiracy by his...
Movies1.5 1984 HD
Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.
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In the Heat of the Night is an American television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name starring Carroll O'Connor as the...
S1 E36.4 1978 HD
The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister in the South of the 1950s until his assassination in...
S4 E137.156 1994 HD
New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New...
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Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC for 35 years from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. Set in the fictional town of Bay...
S3 E215 1980 HD
Fridays is the name of ABC's weekly late-night live comedy show, which aired on Friday nights from April 11, 1980 to April 23, 1982.
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Wildside is an American series aired by ABC from March to April 1985. The series stars William Smith, J. Eddie Peck, Howard Rollins, William Smith,...
S1 E77.3 1979 HD
Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family...
