Louis Gossett Jr.
Birthday: 1936-05-27
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Louis Gossett Jr. (May 27, 1936 – March 29, 2024) was an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in the movie "An Officer and a Gentleman" and as Fiddler in the television miniseries "Roots". He won an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards in an acting career that spanned over five decades.
Movies
Iron Eagle III
Chappy discovers a drug-smuggling scheme at his own air base. It turns out that the lives of some vi...
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Freeman
This 1977 drama by Phillip Hayes Dean, deals with the sad division between what a man hopes for and ...
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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed progra...
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The Principal
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latime...
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An Officer and a Gentleman
Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp...
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Toy Soldiers
After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms...
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Momentum
A trio of men with telekinetic powers led by Adrian Geiger rob an armored car. However the skeptical...
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The Deep
A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they dis...
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Iron Eagle
When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern s...
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Finders Keepers
On the run from the police and a female roller derby team, scam artist Michael Rangeloff steals a co...
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Delgo
In a divided land, it takes a rebellious boy and his clandestine love for a Princess of an opposing ...
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Skin Game
Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Norther...
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Travels with My Aunt
At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentri...
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The White Dawn
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an ...
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The Inspectors 2: A Shred of Evidence
Postal inspectors investigate a con man who uses the identities of others to falsify credit card pur...
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Iron Eagle II
Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a su...
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Enemy Mine
A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he enco...
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The Punisher
The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure ...
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Firewalker
A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold....
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The New Girl
In pursuance of a lucrative government contract, a private company hires its first Black female empl...
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Solar Attack
When the sun's increasing expulsions of plasma threaten to ignite methane in our atmosphere, interna...
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Iron Eagle on the Attack
While Chappy Sinclair is saddled with a bunch of misfits and delinquents for his flight school, he t...
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Why Did I Get Married Too?
Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing the...
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The Laughing Policeman
When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed, alo...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with...
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Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
Directors Robert Townsend and Quincy Newell offer this comprehensive and hilarious examination of th...
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J.D.'s Revenge
Although notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker is shot and killed in the 1940s, his spirit rema...
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Daddy's Little Girls
Monty is a mechanic struggling to make ends meet as he raises his three young daughters. When the co...
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Left Behind: World at War
A year and a half ago, the globe was hit with the biggest catastrophe it had ever seen. Without warn...
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The Landlord
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying ...
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Y2K
On the eve of the new millennium, a nervous military leader assembles a team to help him deal with a...
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Club Soda
A young man's dream to become a successful actor is threatened by the poor decisions he makes until ...
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The Least Among You
Black college graduate Richard Kelly reluctantly accepts a plea bargain requiring him to spend two s...
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Jaws 3-D
A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of p...
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Miracle in East Texas
Two creative con men romance widows to invest in their worthless oil well during the Great Depressio...
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The Choirboys
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in va...
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All In
Six medical students with unique talents pool their resources to win the World Series of Poker....
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Diggstown
Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who owns ...
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Dog Jack
"Dog Jack" is the story of a slave boy and his dog who escape the master's plantation, join the unio...
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El Diablo
When mild-mannered teacher Billy Ray Smith (Anthony Edwards) vows to bring a student's kidnapper to ...
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Cover
When someone is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-m...
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Three Months
Caleb, a South Florida teen, loves his camera, his weed and his grandmother. On the eve of his high ...
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Managua
When a fellow Vietnam veteran is alleged to have thrown his lot in with the cocaine cartels, special...
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The Perfect Game
Based on a true story, a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico who become the first non-U.S. team to ...
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The River Niger
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet,...
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A Gathering of Old Men
A group of elderly Black men on a Louisiana plantation gather to claim responsibility for the murder...
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Smitty
SMITTY is a family film about a rescue dog. When life gets tough for Ben, a friendly paw is all it t...
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Cover-Up
Mike Anderson, a tough American reporter on a dangerous foreign assignment, finds his own life in je...
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The Josephine Baker Story
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s an...
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Roots: The Gift
On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold int...
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Gridiron Gang
A documentary focusing on a juvenile detention center that encourages sports as a form of correction...
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Deceived
In a remote space observatory perched high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a needle frantically scra...
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Monolith
Two cops investigating the murder of a young boy become involved in a very secret project involving ...
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The Color Purple
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie fac...
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The Lazarus Syndrome
An adulterous newspaper reporter, who has just experienced a heart attack, pesters a doctor into inv...
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Little Ladies of the Night
The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working the st...
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Carolina Skeletons
After a long time in the army, an Afro-American soldier returns to his hometown, where, years ago, h...
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Black Bart
A television series titled Black Bart was produced for CBS based on Andrew Bergman's original story ...
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It's Good to Be Alive
This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life i...
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Sudie and Simpson
A television movie about the friendship that develops between a young white girl and an older black ...
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Lackawanna Blues
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cas...
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In His Father's Shoes
A fortyish cancer-stricken, emaciated Frank Crosby and his fifteen-year-old son Clay, who is the hea...
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Legend of the Mummy
Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Karn, and Amy Locane star in this supernatural horror tale about a mummy ...
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Flashfire
Police detective Jack Flinder is already in trouble with the rest of his force for imprisoning a cor...
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The Bushbaby
The young daughter of a park ranger in Tanzania is distressed to learn that she and her father must ...
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IF
After discovering she can see everyone's imaginary friends, a girl embarks on a magical adventure to...
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Curse of the Starving Class
Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tra...
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Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story
The true story of Olympic gold medalist Gail Devers (Charlayne Woodard) and her fight to combat Grav...
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Father & Son: Dangerous Relations
An estranged father and son are paroled from the same maximum-security prison with one unusual condi...
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A Father for Charlie
Set in the heart of America in the 1930s. Walter Osgood (Louis Gosset Jr) is the only black man left...
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The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
Georgia Potter, an old-fashioned widow who lives in a small Southern town, whose life changes drasti...
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Sidekicks
Travelling through the West right after the Civil War, two con men hatch a scheme to try to collect ...
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The Guardian
The residents of a New York apartment building are shocked when one of them is shot during a burgula...
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I Forgive
Shot five times by a Los Angeles gang, leaving ten bullet holes through his body, Tony died for thir...
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The Father Clements Story
In this provocative made-for-television drama, an African American Chicago priest takes on the Catho...
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The Inspectors
U.S Postal Inspectors are called in when a suburban couple are killed by a mail bomb. Suspicion imme...
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The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is th...
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The Dependables
Five retired ex-military men attempt the unthinkable and dust off their old uniforms for one last ex...
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Sidney
This revealing documentary honors the legendary Sidney Poitier—iconic actor, filmmaker, and civil ri...
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Sam Found Out: A Triple Play
Liza Minnelli plays three separate women in three separate stories. There's a serious drama about a ...
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Delancey Street: The Crisis Within
The story of Delancey Street Foundation, a self-help group devoted to reclaiming ex-junkies, ex-conv...
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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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Inside
A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten ...
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For Love of Olivia
To protect his wife's "secret", a small-town Southern lawyer in the 1960s decides to defend a young ...
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Miracle at Gate 213
It's Christmas Eve and an unexpected delay at the airport has left everyone stranded. Young Joy (Sa...
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It Rained All Night the Day I Left
A tough rich female ranch owner in Africa wants to cut off the water supply to the locals, since she...
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Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth
Documentary about Stanley Kramer, included on the 40th anniversary edition of Guess Who's Coming to ...
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A Good Man in Africa
Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man tha...
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Outlaw Johnny Black
Hell bent on avenging the death of his father, Johnny Black vows to gun down Brett Clayton and becom...
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Goodbye, Miss 4th of July
The inspiring true-life drama of 17-year-old Niki Janus. After fleeing persecution in Greece, Niki a...
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Boiling Pot
On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as "issues of the past" e...
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Companions in Nightmare
One of the patients in a group-therapy session conducted by a famous psychiatrist is a murderer....
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Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a wh...
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Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
An account of Black American soldiers in World War II who combated racism in the segregated military...
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To Dance with Olivia
A lawyer trying to cope with his son's accidental death takes on a case where a farmer is charged wi...
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Straight Up
Anti drug series from the 1980s where a young man is transported to a place where he's tempted left ...
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Double Play
Double Play is about anolder man named Ostrik who returns to Curaçao and his childhood after many ye...
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The Highwayman
Road trips have never been this killer! Jason Priestley stars as Breakfast, a psychotic jewelry stor...
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Kings of the Ring: Four Legends of Heavyweight Boxing
This comprehensive HBO presentation documents the history of heavyweight boxing through the 20th cen...
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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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Lawman Without a Gun
During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern t...
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Undercover Grandpa
When the girl he likes goes missing, Jake enlists the help of his grandpa and Grandpa's former speci...
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Breaking Brooklyn
A 12 year old boy with a passion for dance and his brother are rescued from the streets by an old sh...
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Zora is My Name!
A celebration of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who was born at the turn of the 20th Century and gr...
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King of the Dancehall
Nick Cannon directs and stars in this high-energy musical about a young man from Brooklyn who gets c...
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Hal
Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Ha...
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Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the fac...
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The Black List: Volume One
As a new chapter begins in this country, THE BLACK LIST offers a dynamic and never-before-heard pers...
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Keeper of the City
A vigilante killer becomes a celebrity by gunning down Chicago mobsters, but nobody except a police ...
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Strange Justice
In this historical drama, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall announces his retirement. The...
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What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away
A rare original movie offering from the UPN network, What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away focus...
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Supervized
Four aging superheroes in a retirement home in Ireland come together for one last hurrah....
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A.C. Green: Iron Virgin
He played in a record 1,192 consecutive NBA games. As a power forward for the Los Angeles Lakers, he...
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Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, ...
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The Gang Activists
Well known activists the Sherrills brothers address the gang violence in the birth place of the Crip...
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Zooman
Shots ring out on a Brooklyn street and suddenly a young girl lies dead on her front steps. The kill...
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The Cuban
When a young Afghan immigrant named Mina gets her first job in a nursing home, an unexpected friends...
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Jasper, Texas
In 1998, three white men in the small town of Jasper, Texas, chained a black man to the back of thei...
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Love Songs
Louis Gossett, Jr, Robert Townsend and Andre Braugher come together to each direct a short story, al...
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Benny's Place
Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work...
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The Grace Card
Everything can change in an instant ... and take a lifetime to unravel. When Mac McDonald loses his ...
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Foster Boy
A lawyer finds himself at the center of a trial in which a for-profit foster care agency puts a know...
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The Reason
The film, based on the William Sirls book, follows a small-town pastor, his wife and their sick chil...
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A Special Kind of Love
A follow-up of A LOVE STORY OF TODAY, where actors and crew discuss GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER....
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A Love Story of Today
A discussion of the very important and highly controversial film, GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER, feat...
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The Making of Jaws 3-D: Sharks Don't Die
Academy Award winner Lou Gossett Jr. takes you underwater on the trail of the great white shark and ...
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Stories USA
Ten individuals set out to find themselves in an alienating world, filled with heartbreak, deception...
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Forget to Remember
An emotionally vulnerable young man gets tricked into fulfilling a mysterious young woman’s dying wi...
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Not to Forget
A judge sentences a self-centered millennial to take care of his grandmother, who's affected by Alzh...
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To Kill a Cop
Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying...
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The Undershepherd
Best friends LC and Roland are two young ministers, climbing the ranks at the First Baptist Church u...
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Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
Louis Gossett Jr. takes viewers through a special documentary celebration of the groundbreaking achi...
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Amazing Racer
After the sudden death of her father leaves a teenage girl without a family, she becomes lost in her...
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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film....
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The Wall That Heals
Hosted by Louis Gossett, Jr., this film examines the struggle it took to create the Vientnam Veteran...
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Sin
Substance-dependent single mother Sin is trapped in a toxic relationship and must find a way to end ...
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