Cast: Olivia Cole

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Olivia Cole. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Roots (TV Miniseries)

1977 · Series · 573 min. · United States

Direction Marvin J. Chomsky · John Erman · David Greene · Gilbert Moses

Cast Todd Bridges · Robert Reed · John Amos · Madge Sinclair

Synopsis From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home in 18th-century Africa and brought under inhumane conditions to be auctioned as a slave in America, a line is begun that leads from...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

North and South (TV Series)

1985 · Series · 90 min. · United States

Direction Richard T. Heffron

Cast Patrick Swayze · James Read · Lesley-Anne Down · Wendy Kilbourne

Synopsis TV miniseries (1985,1986,1994). 15 Episodes. Based on John Jakes best selling novel this is the story of the friendship between two youngs, George Hazard (James Read) and Orry Main (Patrick Swayze) that meet at West Point. George is from a...

7.1

14K votes

7.1

14K votes

Coming Home

1978 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Hal Ashby

Cast Jon Voight · Jane Fonda · Bruce Dern · Robert Carradine

Synopsis Sally Bender is the wife of a Captain in the United States Army. He is sent over to Vietnam, and Sally is alone. With nothing else to do, she decides to volunteer at a local veteran's hospital, where she meets...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

Heroes

1977 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Jeremy Kagan

Cast Henry Winkler · Sally Field · Harrison Ford · Val Avery

Synopsis A Story about a Vietnam vet who goes on a road trip to join his friend in a worm farm venture. He slowly goes nuts as he finds out the world is too screwed up to bear, his friend is...

5.1

79 votes

5.1

79 votes

Big Shots

1987 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Robert Mandel

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

Synopsis 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 embark on a Down South adventure involving gangsters, the police,...

4.8

212 votes

4.8

212 votes

Direction Donna Deitch

Cast Oprah Winfrey · Mary Alice · Olivia Cole · Robin Givens

Synopsis A group of strong-willed women who live in the same rundown housing project located on Brewster Place, and tells about their lives as they struggle against racism, poverty and troublesome men through three decades.

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Some Kind of Hero

1982 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Michael Pressman

Cast Richard Pryor · Margot Kidder · Ray Sharkey · Ronny Cox

Synopsis A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.

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Something About Amelia (TV)

1984 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Randa Haines

Cast Ted Danson · Glenn Close · Judith Anderson · Olivia Cole

Synopsis TV movie exploring the drama to a family caused by incest.

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Arly Hanks (TV)

1993 · Movie · United States

Direction Arlene Sanford

Cast Kate Jackson · Ron Perlman · Polly Bergen · Olivia Cole

Synopsis The small town of Maggody, population 775, Stump County, Arkansas, has a new Police Chief - Arly Hanks, who has returned home from New York City after a messy divorce, her former husband having been shamefully found in bed with...

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

1984 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Stan Lathan

Cast Paul Winfield · James Bond III · Olivia Cole · Roderick Wimberly

Synopsis 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 salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous...

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Direction Michael O'Herlihy

Cast Olivia Cole · Leslie Uggams · Louis Gossett Jr. · Robert Hooks

Synopsis 4 episodes. No fewer than eight Presidential administrations--from Taft through Eisenhower--are examined through the eyes of the White House staff--maids, assistants, servants, doormen and other "menial" workers.

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