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"Listen to a Stranger" spotlights esteemed writer, photographer, and filmmaker Gordon Parks, Sr., who discusses his life and career in the...
Listen to a Stranger: An Interview with Gordon Parks
With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather...
BaadAsssss Cinema
A documentary made on the set of "The Learning Tree." Narrated by Gordon Parks Jr., and featuring interviews with Gordon Parks Sr. and members of the...
My Father: Gordon Parks
A featurette that shows director Gordon Parks on location for the film The Learning Tree.
The Moviemakers
An interview/overview on the influential careers of Gordon Parks, Ossie Davis, and Melvin Van Peebles.
Unstoppable
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps...
Shaft
A behind the scenes look at the filming of the movie Shaft (1971). The movie's director, Gordon Parks is seen directing a couple of fight scenes...
Soul in Cinema: Filming 'Shaft' on Location
Melvin Van Peebles was one of the first black directors to challenge the white establishment in his films, which include "Watermelon Man" and "Sweet...
How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
Ossie Davis, Terry McMillan, Horace Julian Bond, Isaac Hayes, Dionne Warwick and many others share their inspiring stories of success in the first...
The History Makers: Success
An intimate look at the life and career of Gordon Parks a true Renaissance man who has excelled as a photographer, novelist, journalist, poet,...
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic...
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Using government documents, archive footage and direct interviews with activists and former FBI/CIA officers, All Power to the People documents the...
All Power to the People!
Presents Gordon Parks' photo-essay "A Harlem Family", framed by a filmed segment featuring Parks and the Fontanelle family and narrated by Parks.
Diary of a Harlem Family
Moments Without Proper Names makes Parks makes himself the subject, tracing his development as a person and an artist through an hourlong,...
Moments Without Proper Names
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
Lincoln