Alfre Woodard
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1952-11-08
Locus Natus: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Et ut: Άλφρι Γούνταρντ
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Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own...
release : 2001.10.26popularis : 37.995
Star Trek: First Contact
The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew...
release : 1996.11.22popularis : 27.481
Primal Fear
An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has...
release : 1996.03.06popularis : 39.248
Dinosaur
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
release : 2000.05.19popularis : 38.004
Mumford
When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his talent for listening and a...
release : 1999.09.24popularis : 10.814
Disney's American Legends
Meet the doers and dreamers who made America great -- including John Henry, the railroad builder who proved the value of believing in oneself....
release : 2001.02.12popularis : 3.065
How to Make an American Quilt
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn...
release : 1995.10.06popularis : 13.275
Summer Camp
Childhood best friends Nora, Ginny and Mary used to spend every summer at sleepaway camp together, and now, fifty years later, seize the opportunity...
release : 2024.05.31popularis : 8.706
The Core
Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field...
release : 2003.03.28popularis : 31.356
Crooklyn
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living...
release : 1994.05.13popularis : 10.881
Take the Lead
A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his...
release : 2006.03.17popularis : 13.411
A Wrinkle in Time
Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government...
release : 2003.04.25popularis : 3.299
Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is...
release : 1991.12.25popularis : 13.12
Radio
In the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots a mentally disabled African-American young man...
release : 2003.10.24popularis : 36.991
Beauty Shop
Far from Chicago, hairdresser Gina Norris has relocated to Atlanta with her daughter and has quickly established herself as a rare talent in her...
release : 2005.04.22popularis : 15.673
Passion Fish
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest...
release : 1992.12.11popularis : 5.046
Follow Me Home
Three muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted cousin of the Chicano muralist set off on a road trip with...
release : 1997.02.28popularis : 2.877
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
Eliza and Debbie are two sisters who don't always get along. But their relationship is put to the test when Debbie's life is in danger, and Eliza...
release : 2002.12.20popularis : 16.802
Love & Basketball
Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in...
release : 2000.04.21popularis : 15.395
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship...
release : 2008.09.12popularis : 18.552
Weathering
After losing her baby and nearly her life during labor, a journalist unravels amid disturbing visions and chilling attacks as she grieves alone at...
release : 2023.04.07popularis : 7.398
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
A Southern librarian puts excitement in her life with a found murder weapon and a false confession.
release : 1992.08.21popularis : 6.339
Sweet Revenge
While a major in the U.S. Army, Joe Cheever has a fling with his commanding officer's daughter that results in a pregnancy. Cheever convinces the...
release : 1984.10.31popularis : 2.783
Reach for Me
Old and bitter, Alvin just wants some peace and quiet in his last days. His wish, however, is not granted when a young, vibrant and ironically full...
release : 2008.10.01popularis : 2.309
Health
Health is set at a health food convention at a Florida luxury hotel, where a powerful political organization is deciding on a new president.
release : 1980.09.12popularis : 2.465
Remember My Name
Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life," but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no...
release : 1978.02.10popularis : 4.878
12 Years a Slave
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as...
release : 2013.10.18popularis : 38.668
Bopha!
In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even...
release : 1993.09.16popularis : 4.425
Holiday Heart
After losing his police officer lover, Christian drag queen Holiday Heart meets 12-year-old Niki and her drug-addicted mother, Wanda. Heart finds...
release : 2000.12.10popularis : 4.868
Down in the Delta
A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live...
release : 1998.12.25popularis : 2.388
Words by Heart
The only black family living in a small midwestern town at the turn of the century confront prejudice, as seen through the eyes of the young daughter.
release : 1985.01.01popularis : 1.763
Cross Creek
In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused...
release : 1983.09.21popularis : 9.537
Rich in Love
Warren Odom, a rich Southern gentleman, is left in a state of shock when his wife, Helen, leaves him unexpectedly. With Helen gone, Warren's...
release : 1992.09.04popularis : 7.096
Miss Evers' Boys
The true story of the US Government's 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a...
release : 1997.02.22popularis : 9.583
Steel Magnolias
In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in...
release : 2012.10.07popularis : 4.676
The Member of the Wedding
In the last days leading up to her older brother's marriage, a young girl is forced to face realities and grow up quickly. A tender adaptation of...
release : 1997.01.29popularis : 3.301
Go Tell It on the Mountain
This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both...
release : 1985.01.14popularis : 3.566
The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
Donnie goes missing and the rest of the Thornberry family have various adventures (broken bones, getting lost in a cave, and a forest fire) while...
release : 2001.08.18popularis : 5.796
Space Oddity
A space-obsessed man gets the opportunity of a lifetime thanks to a Mars colonization program but finds his plans compromised by his feelings for a...
release : 2023.03.31popularis : 11.878
Unnatural Causes
Frank Coleman is a Vietnam veteran dying from cancer brought on by exposure to the defoliant chemical Agent Orange which he turns to Maude DeVictor,...
release : 1986.11.10popularis : 2.226
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 family together and her sons out of trouble...
release : 1989.12.03popularis : 1.734
Mandela
Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless...
release : 1987.09.20popularis : 1.569
Funny Valentines
A woman returns to her home town to sort out her troubled marriage and finds new happiness in the rekindling of a broken friendship with her cousin.
release : 1999.02.14popularis : 0.831
Miss Firecracker
Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which her cousin had won years...
release : 1989.04.28popularis : 5.054
Lost Souls
A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a...
release : 2000.10.13popularis : 11.844
Extremities
A woman escapes from the man who is about to rape her, but leaves her purse behind. Afraid that her attacker might come after her, she goes to the...
release : 1986.08.22popularis : 7.696
Annabelle
A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.
release : 2014.10.02popularis : 50.53
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 Queen" to groundbreaking composer to mentoring...
release : 2015.04.01popularis : 3.054
Blue Chips
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future...
release : 1994.02.18popularis : 16.471
The Door
The Door, by Ava DuVernay, is a celebration of the transformative power of feminine bonds, and a symbolic story of life change.
release : 2013.07.02popularis : 0.581
Mississippi Grind
Gerry is a talented but down-on-his-luck gambler whose fortunes begin to change when he meets Curtis, a younger, highly charismatic poker player. ...
release : 2015.07.04popularis : 11.564
The Forgotten
Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has...
release : 2004.09.24popularis : 19.45
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
This fascinating documentary unfolds in reverse telling the story of Mandela from the old man to the rural child. With contributions from...
release : 2014.07.18popularis : 2.409
What's Cooking?
Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.
release : 2000.01.20popularis : 3.371
So B. It
A young girl named Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother, travels across the country to find out about her and her mothers past.
release : 2016.06.07popularis : 1.163
The Ambush Murders
An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims...
release : 1982.01.05popularis : 2.799
The Singing Detective
From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.
release : 2003.10.24popularis : 9.621
Knucklehead
When his brother disappears, mentally disabled Langston Bellows (Gbenga Akinnagbe) is left without a protector in Brooklyn's housing projects. Now...
release : 2015.02.01popularis : 0.755
The Book of Clarence
Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence is struggling to find a better life for his family, while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by...
release : 2024.01.11popularis : 21.457
A Path Appears
The film follows intrepid reporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn and actor/advocates Malin Akerman, Mia Farrow, Ronan Farrow, Jennifer Garner,...
release : 2015.01.26popularis : 2.197
Medal of Honor
The story of the Medal of Honor - the highest U.S. award for valor in combat - is told through personal accounts of bravery and daring
release : 2008.11.05popularis : 2.883
John Henry
The story of the legendary steel-driving folk hero born with a hammer in his hands, who pitted his strength against a mighty railroad-building...
release : 2000.05.27popularis : 6.646
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
Documentary on water usage, money, politics, the transformation of nature, and the growth of the American west, shown on PBS as a four-part...
release : 1997.06.24popularis : 1.711
Freedom Road
Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate...
release : 1979.10.29popularis : 4.015
Pictures of Hollis Woods
After running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Woods is placed with a new foster mother, the loving,...
release : 2007.12.02popularis : 1.512
Scrooged
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after...
release : 1988.11.22popularis : 17.662
Captain America: Civil War
Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This...
release : 2016.04.27popularis : 175.224
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 performance of Ntozake Shange's Obie Award-winning...
release : 1982.02.23popularis : 3.177
Burning Sands
Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground...
release : 2017.01.24popularis : 5.244
A Step Toward Tomorrow
A divorcee moves her family cross-country to take her paralyzed son to a pioneer neurosurgeon.
release : 1996.11.10popularis : 1.207
The Water Is Wide
Pat Conroy, an ambitious, slightly rebellious idealistic teacher accepts Bennington county, SC's school board superintendent's offer to teach the...
release : 2006.01.29popularis : 5.818
The Piano Lesson
1930's Pittsburgh, a brother comes home to claim "my half of the piano", a family heirloom; but his sister is not wanting to part with it. This is a...
release : 1995.02.05popularis : 7.288
American Violet
A young single mother of four living in a small Texas town. Arrested during a drug raid and accused of a crime she didn't commit, Dee goes against...
release : 2008.08.28popularis : 2.867
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her...
release : 2016.10.14popularis : 7.261
The Trial of the Moke
Henry Flipper is the first black West Point graduate. Assigned to serve at Fort Davis in Texas, Flipper becomes the object of a conspiracy by his...
release : 1978.05.03popularis : 3.174
The Lion King
Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival....
release : 2019.07.12popularis : 102.404
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of local slave owners and their families, the eventual...
release : 2003.02.16popularis : 3.744
The Wishing Tree
When her storyteller mother (Mary Alice) dies, attorney Clara Collier (Alfre Woodard) returns to her Georgia hometown and is soon captivated by a...
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 2.801
Puss in Boots
A young man (Gregory Hines) journeys from rags-to-riches thanks to his talented Puss in Boots (Ben Vereen). Starring Ben Vereen, Gregory Hines, Alfre...
release : 1985.09.09popularis : 0.815
King Leopold's Ghost
The modern history of the Congo, the heart of Africa, is a terrifying tale of appalling brutality: how the greedy and incredibly ruthless King...
release : 2006.05.28popularis : 2.017
The Killing Floor
During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the...
release : 1984.04.10popularis : 3.574
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, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors...
release : 2003.02.10popularis : 3.029
Black Panther
Black Panther is the ruler and protector of the African nation of Wakanda. Using technology, wits, and extraordinary fighting ability he must protect...
release : 2010.01.18popularis : 3.361
Henry Box Brown
In a magical take on a true story, a slave mails himself from a plantation in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia in 1848.
release : 2008.02.01popularis : 0.377
Saint Judy
The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood and how she singlehandedly changed the U.S. law of asylum to save women's lives.
release : 2019.03.01popularis : 5.91
Clemency
Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate,...
release : 2019.12.27popularis : 7.367
Special Report: Journey to Mars
When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV-network GNN begins its live coverage of the last two hours of the mission and...
release : 1996.03.25popularis : 1.544
Juanita
Fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus to Paper Moon, Montana - where she reinvents herself...
release : 2019.03.08popularis : 5.583
Fatherhood
A widowed new dad copes with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise his daughter on his own. Inspired by a true story.
release : 2021.06.18popularis : 38.589
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 universal appeal of "The Lion King" franchise, tap into...
release : 2019.06.02popularis : 1.126
Heart and Souls
A fateful night in 1959, four people die when the bus they are riding crashes. They continue as ghosts; their souls become eternally entwined to the...
release : 1993.08.13popularis : 20.226
And the Oscar Goes To...
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...
release : 2014.02.01popularis : 8.241
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony by eyewitnesses...
release : 2000.05.31popularis : 2.531
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt struggled to overcome an unhappy childhood, betrayal in her marriage, a controlling mother-in-law, and gripping depressions —...
release : 2000.01.10popularis : 0.331
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood,...
release : 1994.01.26popularis : 2.12
Aliens for Breakfast
Sinbad plays Ari, an alien who comes to Earth in a cereal box in order to warn a kid about an imminent alien invasion.
release : 1994.04.02popularis : 3.48
The Making of Clemency
Behind the scenes of Clemency (2019). An Emotionally Charged Set, Clemency's Message, The Research Process, Working with Alfre Woodard, Working with...
release : 2020.03.24popularis : 1.686
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 photographer, novelist, journalist, poet,...
release : 2000.11.30popularis : 3.27
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was not really a railroad, nor was it always underground. It was an informal network of people and hiding places that helped...
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 1.381
The Child Saver
Andrea Crawford, an important business woman, risks everything to save a kid from the life of crime.
release : 1988.01.18popularis : 3.633
No Small Matter
A look at the issue of high-quality early care and education in America, from home to childcare to preschool; the tragic cost of getting it wrong;...
release : 2019.06.21popularis : 0.411
Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty
It is one of Egypt's enduring mysteries. What happened to Nefertiti and her husband, Akhenaten - the radical king, and likely father of King Tut? In...
release : 2007.07.16popularis : 1.585
Blue Bayou
A Los Angeles lawyer has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen.
release : 1990.01.15popularis : 0.358
Searching for Debra Winger
Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.
release : 2002.07.13popularis : 5.489
The Gray Man
When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his...
release : 2022.07.13popularis : 30.205
Something New
Kenya McQueen, a corporate lawyer, finds love in the most unexpected place when she agrees to go on a blind date with Brian Kelly, a sexy and...
release : 2006.01.29popularis : 15.909
Black Hollywood
Shot entirely on location in Hollywood in 1984, this feature documentary explores the role of black actors, black directors and the black audience in...
release : 1984.11.28popularis : 0.876
Precious Blood
A one act play where a woman and a man share their life stories, till they inter stitch and conflict with each other.
release : 1982.03.09popularis : 2.398
The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
When Toaster and the gang spark friendships with the playful animals at the veterinary hospital, they soon discover their new pals are about to be...
release : 1997.11.01popularis : 6.897
L.A. Law: Pilot
Pilot episode for the TV series introduces the lawyers and employees of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak, a Los Angeles law firm, in dealing with...
release : 1986.09.15popularis : 2.072
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 first Black woman to mount a retrospective at...
release : 2021.07.15popularis : 1.196
Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
This documentary celebrates the Black cultural renaissance that existed in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, OK, and investigates the 100-year-old...
release : 2021.05.31popularis : 2.547
Hate to See You Go
The story of Sonny Bell (Freeman), an aging Chicago Blues musician, who refuses to retire and defiantly hits the road with his band for one last...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 1.951
Salem's Lot
Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.
release : 2024.10.11popularis : 30.272