Alfre Woodard
Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She has been nominated for an Academy Award and Grammy Award, 12 times for Emmy Awards (winning four), and has also won a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is known for her role in films such as Cross Creek, Miss Firecracker, Grand Canyon, Passion Fish, Primal Fear, Star Trek: First Contact, Miss Evers' Boys, K-PAX, Radio, Take the Lead and The Family That Preys.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 10.771 |
| Birthday | 1952-11-08 |
| Place of Birth | Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA |
| Also Known As | Άλφρι Γούνταρντ, |
2001
K-PAX
7.2/2391
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own exp...
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K-PAX
1996
Star Trek: First Contact
7.3/1746
The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew o...
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Star Trek: First Contact
1996
Primal Fear
7.659/3359
An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has...
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Primal Fear
2000
Dinosaur
6.5/2506
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
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Dinosaur
1999
Mumford
6.5/94
When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his talent for listening and a disarm...
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Mumford
2001
Disney's American Legends
7.6/17
Meet the doers and dreamers who made America great -- including John Henry, the railroad builder who proved the value of believing in oneself. Journey...
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Disney's American Legends
1995
How to Make an American Quilt
6.4/181
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits...
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How to Make an American Quilt
2024
Summer Camp
5/16
Childhood best friends Nora, Ginny and Mary used to spend every summer at sleepaway camp together, and now, fifty years later, seize the opportunity t...
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Summer Camp
2003
The Core
5.809/1861
Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapid...
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The Core
1994
Crooklyn
6.812/138
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in...
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Crooklyn
2006
Take the Lead
6.9/691
A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students'...
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Take the Lead
2003
A Wrinkle in Time
6.2/45
Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government experiment....
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A Wrinkle in Time
1991
Grand Canyon
6.456/193
Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is t...
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Grand Canyon
2003
Radio
7.244/716
In the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots a mentally disabled African-American young man nic...
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Radio
2005
Beauty Shop
6.332/503
Far from Chicago, hairdresser Gina Norris has relocated to Atlanta with her daughter and has quickly established herself as a rare talent in her profe...
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Beauty Shop
1992
Passion Fish
6.7/48
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nur...
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Passion Fish
1997
Follow Me Home
6/1
Three muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted cousin of the Chicano muralist set off on a road trip with...
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Follow Me Home
2002
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
6.4/252
Eliza and Debbie are two sisters who don't always get along. But their relationship is put to the test when Debbie's life is in danger, and Eliza migh...
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The Wild Thornberrys Movie
2000
Love & Basketball
7.4/421
Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in...
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Love & Basketball
2008
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
6.8/83
Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throug...
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Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
2023
Weathering
5.1/32
After losing her baby and nearly her life during labor, a journalist unravels amid disturbing visions and chilling attacks as she grieves alone at hom...
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Weathering
1992
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
5.1/28
A Southern librarian puts excitement in her life with a found murder weapon and a false confession.
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The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1984
Sweet Revenge
6.2/4
While a major in the U.S. Army, Joe Cheever has a fling with his commanding officer's daughter that results in a pregnancy. Cheever convinces the girl...
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Sweet Revenge
2008
Reach for Me
2/2
Old and bitter, Alvin just wants some peace and quiet in his last days. His wish, however, is not granted when a young, vibrant and ironically full of...
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Reach for Me
1980
HealtH
5.3/15
At a luxury Florida resort, health food lobbyists choose their new president at their annual convention. As the conference progresses, underhanded tri...
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HealtH
1978
Remember My Name
6.2/31
Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life," but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent...
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Remember My Name
2013
12 Years a Slave
7.939/11206
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well...
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12 Years a Slave
1993
Bopha!
5.1/7
In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while...
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Bopha!
2000
Holiday Heart
6.7/17
After losing his police officer lover, Christian drag queen Holiday Heart meets 12-year-old Niki and her drug-addicted mother, Wanda. Heart finds reli...
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Holiday Heart
1998
Down in the Delta
6.4/23
A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live...
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Down in the Delta
1985
Words by Heart
0/0
The only black family living in a small midwestern town at the turn of the century confront prejudice, as seen through the eyes of the young daughter.
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Words by Heart
1983
Cross Creek
6.5/23
In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused n...
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Cross Creek
1992
Rich in Love
6.9/12
Warren Odom, a rich Southern gentleman, is left in a state of shock when his wife, Helen, leaves him unexpectedly. With Helen gone, Warren's kindheart...
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Rich in Love
1997
Miss Evers' Boys
6.25/16
The true story of the US Government's 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure...
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Miss Evers' Boys
2012
Steel Magnolias
6.9/62
In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Loui...
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Steel Magnolias
1997
The Member of the Wedding
6/1
In the last days leading up to her older brother's marriage, a young girl is forced to face realities and grow up quickly. A tender adaptation of Cars...
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The Member of the Wedding
1985
Go Tell It on the Mountain
5/4
This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvatio...
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
2001
The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
7/8
Donnie goes missing and the rest of the Thornberry family have various adventures (broken bones, getting lost in a cave, and a forest fire) while look...
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The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
2023
Space Oddity
6/45
A space-obsessed man gets the opportunity of a lifetime thanks to a Mars colonization program but finds his plans compromised by his feelings for a wo...
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Space Oddity
1986
Unnatural Causes
6.8/4
Frank Coleman is a Vietnam veteran dying from cancer brought on by exposure to the defoliant chemical Agent Orange which he turns to Maude DeVictor, a...
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Unnatural Causes
1989
A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
0/0
The story of Mary Thomas, the mother of basketball star Isiah Thomas, and how she fought to keep her family together and her sons out of trouble despi...
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A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
1987
Mandela
4.3/5
Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless revol...
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Mandela
1999
Funny Valentines
7.2/6
A woman returns to her home town to sort out her troubled marriage and finds new happiness in the rekindling of a broken friendship with her cousin.
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Funny Valentines
1989
Miss Firecracker
5.6/24
Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which her cousin had won years before....
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Miss Firecracker
2000
Lost Souls
5.03/182
A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a respected...
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Lost Souls
1986
Extremities
6.1/81
A woman escapes from the man who is about to rape her, but leaves her purse behind. Afraid that her attacker might come after her, she goes to the pol...
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Extremities
2014
Annabelle
5.8/6092
A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.
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Annabelle
2015
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
8/2
Jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams was a genius ahead of her time. From child prodigy to "Boogie-Woogie Queen" to groundbreaking composer to mentoring som...
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Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
1994
Blue Chips
6.1/176
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future ar...
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Blue Chips
2013
The Door
5.5/2
The Door, by Ava DuVernay, is a celebration of the transformative power of feminine bonds, and a symbolic story of life change.
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The Door
2015
Mississippi Grind
6.025/502
Gerry is a talented but down-on-his-luck gambler whose fortunes begin to change when he meets Curtis, a younger, highly charismatic poker player. The...
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Mississippi Grind
2004
The Forgotten
5.9/1113
Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has c...
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The Forgotten
2014
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
0/0
This fascinating documentary unfolds in reverse telling the story of Mandela from the old man to the rural child. With contributions from storytellers...
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Nelson Mandela Redrawn
2000
What's Cooking?
5.7/23
Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.
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What's Cooking?
2016
So B. It
6.7/13
A young girl named Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother, travels across the country to find out about her and her mothers past.
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So B. It
1982
The Ambush Murders
9/1
An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims t...
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The Ambush Murders
2003
The Singing Detective
5.1/126
From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.
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The Singing Detective
2015
Knucklehead
7.5/3
When his brother disappears, mentally disabled Langston Bellows (Gbenga Akinnagbe) is left without a protector in Brooklyn's housing projects. Now und...
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Knucklehead
2024
The Book of Clarence
5.8/88
Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence is struggling to find a better life for his family, while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by th...
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The Book of Clarence
2015
A Path Appears
8/3
The film follows intrepid reporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn and actor/advocates Malin Akerman, Mia Farrow, Ronan Farrow, Jennifer Garner, R...
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A Path Appears
2008
Medal of Honor
6.5/2
The story of the Medal of Honor - the highest U.S. award for valor in combat - is told through personal accounts of bravery and daring
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Medal of Honor
2000
John Henry
7.3/84
The story of the legendary steel-driving folk hero born with a hammer in his hands, who pitted his strength against a mighty railroad-building machine...
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John Henry
1997
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
0/0
Documentary on water usage, money, politics, the transformation of nature, and the growth of the American west, shown on PBS as a four-part miniseries...
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Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
1979
Freedom Road
4.8/6
Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate d...
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Freedom Road
2007
Pictures of Hollis Woods
6.7/19
After running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Woods is placed with a new foster mother, the loving,...
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Pictures of Hollis Woods
1988
Scrooged
6.8/1488
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after fi...
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Scrooged
2016
Captain America: Civil War
7.4/22622
Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarize...
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Captain America: Civil War
1982
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
10/1
The powerful tales of seven diverse African-American women are woven together in this 1982 performance of Ntozake Shange's Obie Award-winning landmark...
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
2017
Burning Sands
5.8/131
Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground ha...
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Burning Sands
1996
A Step Toward Tomorrow
3.7/3
A divorcee moves her family cross-country to take her paralyzed son to a pioneer neurosurgeon.
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A Step Toward Tomorrow
2006
The Water Is Wide
6/5
Pat Conroy, an ambitious, slightly rebellious idealistic teacher accepts Bennington county, SC's school board superintendent's offer to teach the all-...
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The Water Is Wide
1995
The Piano Lesson
7.6/4
1930's Pittsburgh, a brother comes home to claim "my half of the piano", a family heirloom; but his sister is not wanting to part with it. This is a g...
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The Piano Lesson
2008
American Violet
6.7/36
A young single mother of four living in a small Texas town. Arrested during a drug raid and accused of a crime she didn't commit, Dee goes against the...
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American Violet
2016
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
7.9/14
A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her exube...
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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
1978
The Trial of the Moke
10/1
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 fell...
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The Trial of the Moke
2019
The Lion King
7.1/9963
Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Sc...
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The Lion King
2003
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
6.1/11
In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of local slave owners and their families, the eventual exec...
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Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
1999
The Wishing Tree
7.4/5
When her storyteller mother (Mary Alice) dies, attorney Clara Collier (Alfre Woodard) returns to her Georgia hometown and is soon captivated by a loca...
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The Wishing Tree
1985
Puss in Boots
5/1
A young man (Gregory Hines) journeys from rags-to-riches thanks to his talented Puss in Boots (Ben Vereen). Starring Ben Vereen, Gregory Hines, Alfre...
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Puss in Boots
2006
King Leopold's Ghost
7.7/3
The modern history of the Congo, the heart of Africa, is a terrifying tale of appalling brutality: how the greedy and incredibly ruthless King Leopold...
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King Leopold's Ghost
1984
The Killing Floor
8/2
During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the orga...
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The Killing Floor
2003
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
5.9/5
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors wer...
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Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2010
Black Panther
5.9/31
Black Panther is the ruler and protector of the African nation of Wakanda. Using technology, wits, and extraordinary fighting ability he must protect...
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Black Panther
2008
Henry Box Brown
0/0
In a magical take on a true story, a slave mails himself from a plantation in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia in 1848.
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Henry Box Brown
2019
Saint Judy
6.9/65
The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood and how she singlehandedly changed the U.S. law of asylum to save women's lives.
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Saint Judy
2019
Clemency
6.3/109
Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine...
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Clemency
1996
Special Report: Journey to Mars
5/3
When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV-network GNN begins its live coverage of the last two hours of the mission and the...
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Special Report: Journey to Mars
2019
Juanita
5.3/86
Fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus to Paper Moon, Montana - where she reinvents herself a...
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Juanita
2021
Fatherhood
7.5/1389
A widowed new dad copes with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise his daughter on his own. Inspired by a true story.
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Fatherhood
2019
The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts
0/0
"The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts" will explore the enduring universal appeal of "The Lion King" franchise, tap into it...
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The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts
1993
Heart and Souls
6.894/382
A fateful night in 1959, four people die when the bus they are riding crashes. They continue as ghosts; their souls become eternally entwined to the l...
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Heart and Souls
2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
6.97/50
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...
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And the Oscar Goes To...
2000
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
0/0
Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony by eyewitnesses...
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The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
Eleanor Roosevelt
8/1
Eleanor Roosevelt struggled to overcome an unhappy childhood, betrayal in her marriage, a controlling mother-in-law, and gripping depressions — all th...
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Eleanor Roosevelt
1994
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
10/1
Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood, throug...
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Malcolm X: Make It Plain
1994
Aliens for Breakfast
3/1
Sinbad plays Ari, an alien who comes to Earth in a cereal box in order to warn a kid about an imminent alien invasion.
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Aliens for Breakfast
2020
The Making of Clemency
0/0
Behind the scenes of Clemency (2019). An Emotionally Charged Set, Clemency's Message, The Research Process, Working with Alfre Woodard, Working with A...
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The Making of Clemency
2000
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
6/1
An intimate look at the life and career of Gordon Parks a true Renaissance man who has excelled as a photographer, novelist, journalist, poet, musicia...
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Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
1999
The Underground Railroad
0/0
The Underground Railroad was not really a railroad, nor was it always underground. It was an informal network of people and hiding places that helped...
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The Underground Railroad
1988
The Child Saver
0/0
Andrea Crawford, an important business woman, risks everything to save a kid from the life of crime.
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The Child Saver
2019
No Small Matter
0/0
A look at the issue of high-quality early care and education in America, from home to childcare to preschool; the tragic cost of getting it wrong; and...
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No Small Matter
2007
Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty
7/5
It is one of Egypt's enduring mysteries. What happened to Nefertiti and her husband, Akhenaten - the radical king, and likely father of King Tut? In a...
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Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty
1990
Blue Bayou
0/0
A Los Angeles lawyer has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen.
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Blue Bayou
2002
Searching for Debra Winger
6.3/15
Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.
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Searching for Debra Winger
2022
The Gray Man
6.957/3610
When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head...
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The Gray Man
2006
Something New
6.442/232
Kenya McQueen, a corporate lawyer, finds love in the most unexpected place when she agrees to go on a blind date with Brian Kelly, a sexy and free-spi...
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Something New
1984
Black Hollywood
0/0
Shot entirely on location in Hollywood in 1984, this feature documentary explores the role of black actors, black directors and the black audience in...
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Black Hollywood
1982
Precious Blood
0/0
A one act play where a woman and a man share their life stories, till they inter stitch and conflict with each other.
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Precious Blood
1997
The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
5.989/90
When Toaster and the gang spark friendships with the playful animals at the veterinary hospital, they soon discover their new pals are about to be sen...
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The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
1986
L.A. Law: Pilot
0/0
Pilot episode for the TV series introduces the lawyers and employees of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak, a Los Angeles law firm, in dealing with...
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L.A. Law: Pilot
2021
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
10/1
Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the first Black woman to mount a retrospective at the...
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Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
2021
Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
6.3/3
This documentary celebrates the Black cultural renaissance that existed in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, OK, and investigates the 100-year-old race...
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Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
Hate to See You Go
0/0
The story of Sonny Bell (Freeman), an aging Chicago Blues musician, who refuses to retire and defiantly hits the road with his band for one last long-...
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Hate to See You Go
2024
Salem's Lot
6.193/380
Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.
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