Cast: Beah Richards

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Anne Bancroft · Patty Duke · Andrew Prine · Inga Swenson

Plot Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation,...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Sidney Poitier · Katharine Houghton

Plot Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the...

Direction Ernest Kinoy · Georg Stanford Brown · Charles S. Dubin · John Erman

Cast Georg Stanford Brown · Olivia de Havilland · Henry Fonda · Marlon Brando

Plot 14 Episodes -one hour each-. This series continues the story of Alex Haley's family line from the Post American Civil War era to Alex Haley's genealogical search to discover his...

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Michael Caine · Jane Fonda · Faye Dunaway · John Phillip Law

Plot Set in the south in the days just after World War II, a black and a white farmer team up to irrigate their fields and escape the crushing poverty that...

Direction Jonathan Demme

Cast Oprah Winfrey · Danny Glover · Thandie Newton · Kimberly Elise

Plot This is the film version of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. A runaway slave takes history into her own hands by killing her infant daughter to save the child from...

Direction Larry Elikann

Cast Diana Ross · Ann Weldon · Rhonda Stubbins White · Beah Richards

Direction Robert Mandel

Cast Ricky Busker · Darius McCrary · Jerzy Skolimowski · Robert Prosky

Plot Following the death of his father, suburbanite Obie runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, he befriends con artist Scam. The two then...

Direction Andrei Konchalovsky

Cast James Belushi · Whoopi Goldberg · Karen Black · Nancy Parsons

Plot A retarded man get help from a sociopathic woman when tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.

Direction Vincent McEveety

Cast Earl Holliman · Pat Crowley · Lew Ayres · Godfrey Cambridge

Plot In this touching adventure, a remake of the popular 1940 film, two Georgia boys ignore their racial differences to team up and befriend a feral bird dog, whom they train...

Direction Bill Boulware · Michael G. Moye · Gerren Keith · Arlando Smith

Cast Helen Martin · Marla Gibbs · Hal Williams · Regina King

Plot TV Series (1985-1990). 5 seasons. Mary Jenkins is a tart-tongued, sharp housewife, who enjoy a great deal of gossip, and often speak of what she believe, not-so-good results.

Direction Robert Taicher

Cast Elliott Gould · Howard Hesseman · Jennifer Tilly · Beah Richards

Plot An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.

Direction Elinor Karpf · Steven Karpf · Corey Allen · Patrick Corbett

Cast Constance Towers · Debrah Farentino · Rory Calhoun · Carolyn Jones

Plot This daytime serial dramatized the power struggles and personal machinations between two feuding political families the wealthy Cleggs and middle-class McCandlesses. Storylines developed from the star-crossed romance between Julie Clegg...

Direction Nicholas Webster

Cast Ossie Davis · Ruby Dee · Godfrey Cambridge · Hilda Haynes

Plot An idealistic young man returns to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. He brings his fiancée Lutiebelle, but hopes to convince the plantation owner that she is really...

Direction Jean-Claude Tramont

Cast Scott Glenn · Jamie Lee Curtis · Bette Davis · John Randolph

Plot The plot centers around a large area of land owned by an old black lady, Elvira Backus. It had been given to her by her one time employer and secret...

Direction Harry Thomason · James Hampton · Steve Gerbson · Dennis Redfield

Cast John Ritter · Markie Post · Billy Bob Thornton · Clark Duke

Plot John Ritter returns to TV in a genial sitcom, playing an aide to a senator (Gaynes). His life is somewhat complicated by his wife (Post)'s father (Asner) having spent a...

Direction Berry Gordy

Cast Diana Ross · Billy Dee Williams · Anthony Perkins · Jean-Pierre Aumont

Plot Tracy, a young ghetto woman, puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her into the lives of people...

Direction Norman Lear · Bud Yorkin · Peter Baldwin · Alan Rafkin

Cast Redd Foxx · Demond Wilson · LaWanda Page · Don Bexley

Plot TV Series (1972-1977). 6 Seasons. 136 Episodes. American sitcom based on the BBC's 'Steptoe and Son' about the misadventures of a cantankerous junk dealer and his frustrated son.

Direction Paul Wendkos

Cast Richard Crenna · James Woods · Robert Carradine · Joanna Pettet

Direction Robert Ellis Miller

Cast Cicely Tyson · Robert Hooks · Beah Richards · Lincoln Kilpatrick

Plot A black family from Detroit takes a two-week vacation in the South. The trip changes their lives.

Direction John Korty

Cast Michael Learned · John Houseman · Ramon Bieri · James Cromwell

Plot A divorced woman moves to San Francisco from Omaha after her divorce. Leaving her young son with his grandmother while trying to rebuild her life, she joins the choir of...