The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Bustin Loose (1981)
Joe Braxton is an ex-con who has been given a second chance to freedom after violating his probation. He has been hired by a school teacher named Vivian Perry to repair and drive an old ...
Maya Angelou and Still I Rise (2016)
Maya Angelou and Still I Rise (2016) The first feature documentary about the remarkable writer, poet, actress, activist Maya Angelou.
Sounder (1972)
Sounder (1972) The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, s
Relative Stranger (2009)
Relative Stranger (2009) After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.
A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
A Lesson Before Dying (1999) In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing of a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didn't have the sense to know what he was doing. Nevertheless convicted, he is sente
A Hero Aint Nothin But a Sandwich (1978)
A Hero Aint Nothin But a Sandwich (1978) Benjie is a troubled teen in Los Angeles, living with his grandmother, mother, and her new boyfriend. Traumatized by his father's desertion and the situation at home, Benjie gets introduced to heroin. The downward spiral begins. At school he faces conflict be