Biography: Diahann Carroll |
Over her long career, Diahann Carroll has distinguished herself as a singer and as an actress on screen, television, and the stage. The Bronx-born beauty started out at age ten when she received a scholarship from the Metropolitan Opera to enroll in... more
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Tags: Romantic Drama Drama
Length: 95min
Vanessa L. Williams stars in this made-for-TV drama as Henriette Delille, a woman born in New Orleans before the abolition of slavery. Delille refused to accept the narrow boundaries society attempted to impose upon her as a mixed-race woman (who are...
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First One Hundred Years (1999)
Tags: Period Film Biopic Drama
Length: 120min
Based on the best-selling book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth, which was later adapted into a Broadway play, Having Our Say tells the true story of the Delany Sisters, two African-American women who were fathered by a...
Tags: Childhood Drama Family Drama
Length: 105min
Stuart Margolin, who won an Emmy Award for his work on the TV series The Rockford Files (1979-80 season), directed this film for children. The Sweetest Gift takes place in a region of Southern Florida where racial conflict makes peaceful co-existence...
Murder in Black and White (1990)
Tags: Police Detective Film Mystery
Length: 97min
Richard Crenna returns as Lt. Frank Janek of the NYPD in the TV movie Murder in Black and White. As in his previous appearances in Doubletake (85) and Internal Affairs (89), Janek is called upon to solve a bizarre and baffling murder. This time the...
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)
Cast: Ruby Dee
Length: 100min
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is based on the writings of African-American poet/playwright Maya Angelou. Though she eventually became America's poet laureate, Angelou was once just another little black girl growing up in Depression-era Arkansas. Her...
Cast: James Earl Jones
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Family Drama Romance
Length: 92min
Claudine (Diahann Carroll) is an impoverished African-American Harlem resident. Unmarried, Claudine supports herself and her six children by working as a maid--albeit secretly, so she can still qualify for welfare. Garbageman James Earl Jones falls in...
Cast: Ernest Borgnine Gene Hackman Julie Harris
Length: 91min
A pair of crooks conspire to rob the ticket booth at the Los Angeles Coliseum during a Rams game. Before they can perform the heist, the two must find precisely the right henchmen to join them. Each potential gang member must undergo a rigorous test...
Cast: Michael Caine Jane Fonda Faye Dunaway George Kennedy John Phillip Law
Length: 146min
Otto Preminger directed this star-studded adaptation of K.B. Gliden's novel about racial prejudice and emotional unrest in the Deep South. Henry Warren (Michael Caine) is a land owner obsessed with buying up all available land in a Georgia farming...
Cast: Paul Newman Sidney Poitier Joanne Woodward Martin Ritt
Tags: Romance Drama Musical Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 100min
The second film of director Martin Ritt with both Paul Newmanand Sidney Poitier, it's set in a city that has long been a haven for black musicians eager to escape the racism of the U.S. Newman is Ram Bowen, a trombone player who makes his living in a...
Cast: Harry Belafonte Otto Preminger Pearl Bailey Dorothy Dandridge
Tags: Musical Romance Film-Opera Musical
Length: 120min
In 1943, Oscar Hammerstein Jr. took Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, rewrote the lyrics, changed the characters from 19th century Spaniards to World War II-era African-Americans, switched the locale to a Southern military base, and the result was Carmen...
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