Howard Rollins
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1950-10-17
Locus Natus: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Et ut: Howard Rollins Jr., Howard E. Rollins Jr., Howard E. Rollins
Ragtime
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other...
release : 1981.11.20popularis : 14.169
A Soldier's Story
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain...
release : 1984.09.14popularis : 10.529
The Legacy of Malthus
Discusses Malthus's theories of population and the causes of poverty. As film contrasts the 19th century poor in Scotland with today's poor in India,...
release : 1994.01.01popularis : 2.412
The Neighborhood
A neighborhood in Brooklyn reacts to the first black families moving into the community.
release : 1982.04.25popularis : 1.128
Drunks
At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first...
release : 1997.03.14popularis : 1.788
Remembering Ragtime
Memories from the making of the classic Milos Forman film "Ragtime".
release : 2004.11.16popularis : 5.173
The Children of Times Square
An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug...
release : 1986.03.03popularis : 4.677
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of...
release : 1983.03.22popularis : 3.296
The Member of the Wedding
12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams dreams of going away with her brother and his bride-to-be on their upcoming honeymoon. [Taped live in performance...
release : 1982.12.20popularis : 0.785
My Old Man
An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter a horse to salvage their relationship. When Frank is...
release : 1979.12.07popularis : 1.843
The House of Dies Drear
A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle...
release : 1984.06.01popularis : 3.11
The Boy King
Focuses on young Martin Luther King Jr.'s early encounters with prejudice and how the love and courage of his family moved him to speak out against...
release : 1986.01.01popularis : 0.56
On the Block
A stripper and a vice squad lieutenant become romantically involved in this contemporary drama set in the adult entertainment zone in 1980s...
release : 1990.01.01popularis : 1.499
Harambee!
During a Kwanzaa celebration, a recovering drug addict who now counsels drug users inspires the residents of a Brooklyn housing project to apply the...
release : 1996.12.01popularis : 0.001
Thornwell
The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to force him to confess to stealing secret documents...
release : 1981.01.28popularis : 1.3
A Doctor's Story
A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.
release : 1984.04.23popularis : 1.785
With Murder in Mind
A real estate agent is shot while trying to sell a rural farm and tries to bring the shooter to justice.
release : 1992.05.12popularis : 1.38
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
A police officer is called by F.B.I. to infiltrate into gang of arms smugglers.
release : 1986.10.21popularis : 1.403
He's Fired, She's Hired
Advertising executive, Alex Grier, is fired and is unable to find another position, being over-qualified. His wife, Annabelle, with no experience, is...
release : 1984.12.18popularis : 1.544
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 House of God
Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.
release : 1984.01.01popularis : 2.38