SEARCH MOVIES...
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode...
Fried Green Tomatoes
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
The Women of Brewster Place
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam...
Hoodlum
Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert...
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation, he is given a second chance. All he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country.
Bustin' Loose
Outraged by the treatment of New York City’s unhoused residents, an activist brings national attention to the issue by taking their case to...
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
Odds Against Tomorrow
An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his...
Always Outnumbered
A reticent piano player Percival, along with Rooster, his flamboyant lead performer and manager, struggle to keep their speakeasy, in the...
Idlewild
Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas...
Why Did I Get Married Too?
Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the...
The Concorde... Airport '79
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for...
Sounder
Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship troubles - Vanessa moves into Madea's house with her...
Madea's Family Reunion
A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names...
Because of Winn-Dixie
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson...
The Help
In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him...
A Lesson Before Dying
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally...
The River Niger
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just...
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Alex Cross, a genius homicide detective/psychologist is trying to clean up the mean streets of Detroit while keeping his family out of the line of...
Alex Cross
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're...
The Blue Bird
A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
A young family moves into a historic home in Georgia, only to learn they are not the house's only inhabitants. Soon they find themselves in the...
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
Tells the story of an African American youth named Jimmy who encounters racial discrimination in his search for employment. Although the boy's father...
A Morning For Jimmy
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She...
Ms. Scrooge
In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.
Jewel
Cicely Tyson was Emmy-nominated as Outstanding Actress for her portrait of a Chicago schoolteacher whose remarkable achievements with black children...
The Marva Collins Story
Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind...
The Road to Galveston
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
A Man Called Adam
Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and...
The Trip to Bountiful
Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War...
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
The Comedians
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Heat Wave
Free to Be…You and Me, a project of the Ms. Foundation for Women, is a record album, and illustrated book first released in November 1972,...
Free to Be… You and Me
In this sentimental holiday tale, a young boy is taken away from his loving, adoptive household when his new mom is killed in an auto accident and...
The Kid Who Loved Christmas
The story of American track sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who overcame physical handicaps to win three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics.
Wilma
Set in the year 1977, two women look to integrate their small town, inspired by the miniseries "Roots" as it hits the airwaves.
Showing Roots
The manager of a chemical plant and a city manager rise up against their respective bosses to keep a town safe in this ecologically conscientious...
Acceptable Risks
After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.
Relative Stranger
Dr. Sam Abelman is a Jewish doctor contentedly spending his autumn years serving his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But when his nephew, would-be...
The Last Angry Man
A medical student marries a millionaire's daughter but insists they live on the money he earns.
Marriage: Year One
Charles, an attorney, and Helen, his devoted wife, seem to have everything – money, a beautiful mansion – the American Dream. However, as...
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
A family falls victim to a scientific institute that removes memories and transfers them to a computer.
Duplicates
Gary Coleman stars as a teenage arsonist. The authorities, friends, and neighbors warn his absentee parents until it is too late.
Playing with Fire
A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her...
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
It started as fantasy...and ended as intimate encounters.
Intimate Encounters
Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry, Sal and Richard, reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young...
Last Flag Flying
The Irish-willed eighty-year-old Bonnie Ash Fitzpatrick and her only friend in life, seventy-year-old Celine Snow disagree on just about everything....
Fat Rose and Squeaky
Upon his discharge following the Korean War, soldier Jerry moves back to the small town in South Carolina where he grew up. Jerry is reunited with...
Blessed Assurance
A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
The Rosa Parks Story
Racial tensions come out of the woodwork when an upper-class white couple puts their suburban home on the market and the listing draws a pair of...
Neighbors
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...
And the Oscar Goes To...
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....
Just an Old Sweet Song
The hard-working but struggling crew of a shrimp boat discover a sunken treasure. Trouble ensues in this dramatic black-cast production.
Carib Gold
When a law-abiding woman gets indicted for murdering her husband, her lawyer soon realizes that a larger conspiracy may be at work.
A Fall from Grace
Marion Ravinel is trapped in an abusive spousal relationship. She forms a plan with her husband's former lover to kill him. However, the outcome...
House of Secrets
Excerpts from the 1969 Off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater of To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry, adapted...
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words
Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work and at play.
Benny's Place
Tells the inspiring story of how six iconic African American female entertainers – Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll,...
How It Feels to Be Free
The story of racism, segregation and Civil Rights in America told through the lives of the Negro League baseball players. Features exclusive...
The Other Boys of Summer
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...
Night of 100 Stars