Sonny Jim Gaines

During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Gossett Jr.

Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Benjamin

Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Muhammad Ali

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denzel Washington

A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Julia Roberts

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Morgan Freeman

Upon learning that their grandmother is not long for this world, Nate and Priscilla Simmons pack up their kids and leave Detroit to head down South....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Hooks

Life in a black ghetto isn't easy for 14-year-old Billie Jean Sims, who has a father in jail, a blind grandmother, and a brother with a drug habit....

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Donna M. Bryan

A Florida con man uses the passing of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a name with, to get elected to his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Murphy

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clarice Taylor