Cast: Sonny Jim Gaines

Direction Michael Langham

Cast Morgan Freeman · Sonny Jim Gaines · Earle Hyman · Roscoe Orman

Plot The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they...

Direction Woodie King Jr.

Cast Morgan Freeman · Yolanda King · Mansoor Najee-ullah · Sam Singleton

Plot After breaking ties with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X became a man marked for death...and it was just a matter of time before his enemies closed in. Despite death...

Direction Ján Kadár

Cast Muhammad Ali · Kris Kristofferson · Ron O'Neal · Edward Herrmann

Plot Muhammad Ali, in a rare acting role, plays Gideon Jackson, an ex-slave in 1870's Virginia who gets elected to the U.S. Senate in Washington D.C. and battles other former slaves...

Direction Jerrold Freedman

Cast Louis Gossett Jr. · Clu Gulager · Mary Alice · Barry Brown

Plot During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for Sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.

Direction Oscar Williams

Cast Godfrey Cambridge · Clarice Taylor · Leonard Jackson · Virginia Capers

Plot Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife joins...

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.