Biography: Al Freeman, Jr. |
The son of African American stage actor Al Freeman (1884-1956), Al Freeman Jr. made his film debut in 1960's The Rebel Breed. In 1967, Freeman co-starred with Shirley Knight in the film version of Leroi Jones' off-Broadway play Dutchman, earning... more
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Cast: Alfre Woodard Mary Alice Esther Rolle
Tags: Americana Drama Childhood Drama Coming-of-Age Rural Drama
Length: 111min
Poet Maya Angelou made her feature directorial debut with this African-American family drama, shown theatrically but originally produced for the Showtime cable network. Unemployed single mother Loretta (Alfre Woodward) lives with her mother, Rosa Lynn...
Cast: Denzel Washington Spike Lee Ossie Davis Peter Boyle Delroy Lindo Angela Bassett Christopher Plummer John Sayles
Tags: Political Drama Biopic Drama
Length: 205min
Writer-director Spike Lee's epic portrayal of the life and times of the slain civil rights leader Malcolm X begins with the cross-cut imagery of the police beating of black motorist Rodney King juxtaposed with an American flag burning into the shape...
Tags: Drama
Length: 80min
This tense, tragic drama underscores the horrors of racism in America: not only that perpetuated by whites, but also by blacks. In this story, based on LeRoi Jones' play Slaves, director Al Freeman Jr. plays a black revolutionary leader who has come...
Cast: John Barry Shirley Knight
Tags: Crime Drama Psychological Drama
Length: 56min
Anthony Harvey directed this adaptation of the controversial allegorical drama by African-American playwright Amiri Baraka (aka LeRoi Jones). Lula (Shirley Knight), a slatternly woman with a racist streak, encounters Clay (Al Freeman Jr.), a...
Cast: Sorrell Booke Al Freeman, Jr. James Whitmore Roscoe Lee Browne
Tags: Docudrama Melodrama Message Movie Drama
Length: 107min
Black Like Me is the true story of white journalist John Howard Griffin, who "became" a Negro in the late 1950s. Feeling that the best way to understand what it was like to be black in a segregated south was to experience the feeling first-hand,...
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