Alfre Woodard - Movie Mafia

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Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tri...

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Star Trek: First Contact

The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay a...

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Primal Fear

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the great...

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Dinosaur

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower...

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Mumford

When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same nam...

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Disney's American Legends

Meet the doers and dreamers who made America great -- including John Henry, the railroad builder who...

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How to Make an American Quilt

Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheatin...

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Summer Camp

Childhood best friends Nora, Ginny and Mary used to spend every summer at sleepaway camp together, a...

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The Core

Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to sto...

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Crooklyn

From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn j...

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Take the Lead

A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, whi...

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A Wrinkle in Time

Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their fath...

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Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in mode...

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Radio

In the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots ...

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Beauty Shop

Far from Chicago, hairdresser Gina Norris has relocated to Atlanta with her daughter and has quickly...

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Passion Fish

After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotio...

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Follow Me Home

Three muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted cousin of...

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The Wild Thornberrys Movie

Eliza and Debbie are two sisters who don't always get along. But their relationship is put to the te...

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Love & Basketball

Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since chi...

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Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys

Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of hig...

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Weathering

After losing her baby and nearly her life during labor, a journalist unravels amid disturbing vision...

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The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag

A Southern librarian puts excitement in her life with a found murder weapon and a false confession....

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Sweet Revenge

While a major in the U.S. Army, Joe Cheever has a fling with his commanding officer's daughter that ...

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Reach for Me

Old and bitter, Alvin just wants some peace and quiet in his last days. His wish, however, is not gr...

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HealtH

At a luxury Florida resort, health food lobbyists choose their new president at their annual convent...

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Remember My Name

Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life," but soon begins stal...

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12 Years a Slave

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abdu...

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Bopha!

In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who b...

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Holiday Heart

After losing his police officer lover, Christian drag queen Holiday Heart meets 12-year-old Niki and...

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Down in the Delta

A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her...

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Words by Heart

The only black family living in a small midwestern town at the turn of the century confront prejudic...

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Cross Creek

In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bo...

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Rich in Love

Warren Odom, a rich Southern gentleman, is left in a state of shock when his wife, Helen, leaves him...

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Miss Evers' Boys

The true story of the US Government's 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black...

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Steel Magnolias

In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chroni...

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The Member of the Wedding

In the last days leading up to her older brother's marriage, a young girl is forced to face realitie...

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rura...

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The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie

Donnie goes missing and the rest of the Thornberry family have various adventures (broken bones, get...

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Space Oddity

A space-obsessed man gets the opportunity of a lifetime thanks to a Mars colonization program but fi...

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Unnatural Causes

Frank Coleman is a Vietnam veteran dying from cancer brought on by exposure to the defoliant chemica...

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A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story

The story of Mary Thomas, the mother of basketball star Isiah Thomas, and how she fought to keep her...

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Mandela

Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize f...

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Funny Valentines

A woman returns to her home town to sort out her troubled marriage and finds new happiness in the re...

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Miss Firecracker

Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beau...

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Lost Souls

A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To ...

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Extremities

A woman escapes from the man who is about to rape her, but leaves her purse behind. Afraid that her ...

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Annabelle

A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly a...

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Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band

Jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams was a genius ahead of her time. From child prodigy to "Boogie-Woogie ...

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Blue Chips

Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cann...

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The Door

The Door, by Ava DuVernay, is a celebration of the transformative power of feminine bonds, and a sym...

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Mississippi Grind

Gerry is a talented but down-on-his-luck gambler whose fortunes begin to change when he meets Curtis...

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The Forgotten

Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is st...

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Nelson Mandela Redrawn

This fascinating documentary unfolds in reverse telling the story of Mandela from the old man to the...

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What's Cooking?

Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner....

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So B. It

A young girl named Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother, travels across the country to ...

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The Ambush Murders

An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he ...

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The Singing Detective

Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories th...

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Knucklehead

When his brother disappears, mentally disabled Langston Bellows (Gbenga Akinnagbe) is left without a...

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The Book of Clarence

Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence is struggling to find a better life for his family, while ...

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A Path Appears

The film follows intrepid reporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn and actor/advocates Malin Ake...

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Medal of Honor

The story of the Medal of Honor - the highest U.S. award for valor in combat - is told through perso...

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John Henry

The story of the legendary steel-driving folk hero born with a hammer in his hands, who pitted his s...

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Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature

Documentary on water usage, money, politics, the transformation of nature, and the growth of the Ame...

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Freedom Road

Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional co...

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Pictures of Hollis Woods

After running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Wood...

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Scrooged

Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature ...

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Captain America: Civil War

Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed ...

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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

The powerful tales of seven diverse African-American women are woven together in this 1982 performan...

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Burning Sands

Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up a...

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A Step Toward Tomorrow

A divorcee moves her family cross-country to take her paralyzed son to a pioneer neurosurgeon....

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The Water Is Wide

Pat Conroy, an ambitious, slightly rebellious idealistic teacher accepts Bennington county, SC's sch...

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The Piano Lesson

1930's Pittsburgh, a brother comes home to claim "my half of the piano", a family heirloom; but his ...

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American Violet

A young single mother of four living in a small Texas town. Arrested during a drug raid and accused ...

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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs a...

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The Trial of the Moke

Henry Flipper is the first black West Point graduate. Assigned to serve at Fort Davis in Texas, Flip...

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The Lion King

Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone i...

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Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of local ...

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The Wishing Tree

When her storyteller mother (Mary Alice) dies, attorney Clara Collier (Alfre Woodard) returns to her...

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Puss in Boots

A young man (Gregory Hines) journeys from rags-to-riches thanks to his talented Puss in Boots (Ben V...

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King Leopold's Ghost

The modern history of the Congo, the heart of Africa, is a terrifying tale of appalling brutality: h...

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The Killing Floor

During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaug...

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Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, ...

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Black Panther

Black Panther is the ruler and protector of the African nation of Wakanda. Using technology, wits, a...

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Henry Box Brown

In a magical take on a true story, a slave mails himself from a plantation in Richmond, Virginia, to...

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Saint Judy

The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood and how she singlehandedly changed the U.S. law of ...

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Clemency

Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As...

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Special Report: Journey to Mars

When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV network GNN begins its live cov...

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Juanita

Fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus to P...

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Fatherhood

A widowed new dad copes with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise his ...

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The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts

"The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts" will explore the enduring universa...

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Heart and Souls

A fateful night in 1959, four people die when the bus they are riding crashes. They continue as ghos...

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The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood i...

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt struggled to overcome an unhappy childhood, betrayal in her marriage, a controllin...

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Malcolm X: Make It Plain

Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights l...

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Aliens for Breakfast

Sinbad plays Ari, an alien who comes to Earth in a cereal box in order to warn a kid about an immine...

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The Making of Clemency

Behind the scenes of Clemency (2019). An Emotionally Charged Set, Clemency's Message, The Research P...

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Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks

An intimate look at the life and career of Gordon Parks a true Renaissance man who has excelled as a...

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The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was not really a railroad, nor was it always underground. It was an informa...

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The Child Saver

Andrea Crawford, an important business woman, risks everything to save a kid from the life of crime....

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No Small Matter

A look at the issue of high-quality early care and education in America, from home to childcare to p...

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Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty

It is one of Egypt's enduring mysteries. What happened to Nefertiti and her husband, Akhenaten - the...

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Blue Bayou

A Los Angeles lawyer has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen....

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Searching for Debra Winger

Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the en...

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The Gray Man

When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopat...

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Something New

Career-minded corporate accountant Kenya McQueen is set up on a blind date with sexy, free-spirited ...

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Black Hollywood

Shot entirely on location in Hollywood in 1984, this feature documentary explores the role of black ...

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Precious Blood

A one act play where a woman and a man share their life stories, till they inter stitch and conflic...

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The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue

When Toaster and the gang spark friendships with the playful animals at the veterinary hospital, the...

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L.A. Law: Pilot

Pilot episode for the TV series introduces the lawyers and employees of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney a...

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Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the...

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Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street

This documentary celebrates the Black cultural renaissance that existed in the Greenwood district of...

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Hate to See You Go

The story of Sonny Bell (Freeman), an aging Chicago Blues musician, who refuses to retire and defian...

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Salem's Lot

Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot only to discover his hometown is b...

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Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”

Documentary on the making of the film “Love & Basketball” produced by the Criterion Collection in 20...

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The Inquisitor

In 1972, Congresswoman Barbara Jordan became the first Southern Black woman to join Congress, one of...

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Seven Candles For Kwanzaa

For each new day of Kwanzaa, a new candle is lit and children and adults share their thoughts, songs...

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