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Oprah Winfrey rose from poverty and a troubled youth to become the most powerful and influential woman in television and, according to Forbes Magazine, the world's most highly paid entertainer. Though primarily recognized as a talk show hostess,... more
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Barack Obama: The Power of Change (2008)
Tags: History Culture & Society Race & Ethnicity Politics & Government 
Length: 108min
The year of 2008 witnessed a unique election campaign from Presidential candidate Barack Obama and the grassroots power that drove his journey towards the White House, stressing the importance of hope and its ability to bring all ethnicities, genders,...

Cast: Julia Roberts John Cleese Steve Buscemi Robert Redford Sam Shepard Beau Bridges   
Tags: Family Children's Fantasy 
Length: 97min
E.B. White's classic children's story comes to the screen in this live-action adaptation with an all-star voice cast. Fern Arable (Dakota Fanning) is a young girl growing up on her family's farm. When a sow gives birth to some piglets, Fern's father...

Cast: Jonathan Demme Jason Robards, Jr. Danny Glover   
Tags: Period Film Drama Psychological Drama Family Drama 
Length: 180min
Jonathan Demme directed this adaptation of Toni Morrison's fact-based fifth novel (winner of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize), written in an experimental stream-of-consciousness flow and capturing the impact and aftermath of slavery on the human soul. In 1873,...

Tags: Addiction Drama Family Drama Drama 
Length: 120min
Connie May Fowler adapted her own novel for this dark drama about a dysfunctional family in northern rural Florida during the '60s. Alcoholic Billy (John Savage) reflects on his country-music career that never happened and beats his wife Glory Marie...

The Women of Brewster Place (1989)
Cast: Oprah Winfrey Cicely Tyson   
Tags: Feminist Film Drama Urban Drama Ensemble Film 
Length: 180min
Based on the novel by Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place was produced by and stars Oprah Winfrey. The film concerns a variety of women who live in the housing project located on Brewster Place, and tells about their lives as they struggle in...

Cast: Matt Dillon   
Tags: Drama Crime Drama Period Film 
Length: 111min
Previously filmed in Argentina in 1951, black author Richard Wright's powerful race-conscious novel Native Son was remade in this barely released 1986 version. The story involves Bigger Thomas (Victor Thomas), an angry Depression-era Chicago black...

Cast: Steven Spielberg Whoopi Goldberg   
Tags: Period Film Marriage Drama Feminist Film Drama Rural Drama 
Length: 154min
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband, sharecropper...




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