In 1950s Massachusetts, a wealthy black woman engaged to a poor white beatnik learns about her family history The stories revolve around the racial and class complexities of interracial and class based marriages
Tracks the history of Black cinema, focused mainly on the 70s, with archival and new interviews with many of the key players from the era
Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support
A charismatic old acquaintance drifts into town, stirring up trouble for a mild mannered family
A man who has struggled personally has conflicts with his upwardly mobile lawyer brother and well to do fiancee and is reluctantly to be the best man at their wedding
After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier
Sarny, a 12 year old slave girl in the ante bellum South, faces a relatively hopeless life Her chief duties at the plantation of Clel Waller are serving at table, spitting tobacco juice on
In 1965 Alabama, an 11 year old girl Jurnee Smollett is touched by a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr Clifton Powell and becomes a devout follower But her resolution is tested when
How did America change from Easy Rider into Donald Trump What became of the dreams and utopias of the 1960s and 1970s What do the people who lived in that golden age think about it today Did they really blow it Shot in Cinemasc
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Two cops become compelled to act against corruption and discrimination within their police precinct
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