Cast: Harry Belafonte

Direction Dawn Porter

Cast Harry Belafonte · Dolores Huerta · Paul Schrade

Plot This four-part documentary series weaves together rare and exclusive footage of attorney general, U.S. senator, and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in the 1960s. Combining charisma and grit, Robert F....

Direction Reginald Hudlin

Cast Sidney Poitier · Denzel Washington · Halle Berry · Spike Lee

Plot From producer Oprah Winfrey and directed by Reginald Hudlin, this revealing documentary honors the legendary Sidney Poitier and his legacy as an iconic actor, filmmaker and activist at the center...

Direction Mika Kaurismäki

Cast Miriam Makeba · Harry Belafonte

Plot A moving tribute to renowned South African singer and activist, Miriam Makeba, this long-awaited documentary by Finnish director Kaurismäki bursts with the successes, surprises and sorrows of Makeba's life. From...

Direction Judy Kinberg

Cast Jim Henson · Frank Oz · Brian Henson · Francis Ford Coppola

Direction Elvis Mitchell

Cast Margaret Avery · Harry Belafonte · Charles Burnett · Suzanne De Passe

Plot 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.

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Harry Belafonte · Robert Ryan · Shelley Winters · Ed Begley

Plot Ex cop Dave Burke (Ed Begley) is looking to hire two men to assist him in a bank raid: Earl Slater (Robert Ryan), a white and racist ex-convict, and Johnny...

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Dorothy Dandridge · Harry Belafonte · Pearl Bailey · Joe Adams

Plot On leave to see his fiancée, Cindy Lou, trooper Joe falls for Carmen, a worker in a Jacksonville parachute factory who is stringing along prizefighter, Husky Miller.

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Jennifer Jason Leigh · Harry Belafonte · Miranda Richardson · Dermot Mulroney

Plot Robert Altman's jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930's Kansas City. When Blondie O'Hara's husband, a petty thief, is captured by Seldom Seen and held...

Direction Ranald MacDougall

Cast Harry Belafonte · Inger Stevens · Mel Ferrer

Plot Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of...

Direction Jon Brewer

Cast Nat 'King' Cole · Tony Bennett · Ralph Carmichael · Johnny Mathis

Plot Nat King Cole was the only black television star in Hollywood at a time when America groaned under the weight of racial segregation and prejudice. Yet he possessed a natural...

Direction Robert Rossen

Cast James Mason · Joan Fontaine · Dorothy Dandridge · Joan Collins

Direction Sidney Poitier

Cast Sidney Poitier · Harry Belafonte · Ruby Dee · Cameron Mitchell

Plot Sidney Poitier made his directing debut with this 1972 action comedy with an edge to it. Made at the height of the Black Power movement in America, the film has...

Direction David Anspaugh

Cast Andy García · Kate Nelligan · Milo O'Shea · Harry Belafonte

Direction Desmond Nakano

Cast John Travolta · Harry Belafonte · Kelly Lynch · Margaret Avery

Plot The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Julia Roberts · Tim Robbins · Sophia Loren · Marcello Mastroianni

Plot A fashion show in Paris draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Lots of unconnected stories which all revolve around this show, and an all-star...

Direction Tim Skousen

Cast Harry Belafonte · Doris Buffett · Warren Buffett · Gregory Fredericks

Plot Rare access within the walls of the notorious Sing Sing Correctional facility to follow the lives of several of society's forgotten men as they experience the transformative power of education...

Direction Simon Frederick

Cast Simon Frederick · Nelson George · Lil Rel Howery · Kasi Lemmons

Plot A unique portrait of how art and activism for black people in film are indivisible from race and cinema.

Direction Sidney Lumet · Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Martin Luther King · Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Ruby Dee

Plot King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery To Memphis is a 1970 American documentary film biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., presented in the form of newsreel footage and segments of...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Geri Allen · Harry Belafonte · Cyrus Chestnut · Craig Handy

Plot A recreation of a 1930s Kansas City nightclub. The music of the film is improvisation played by the actors: known jazz musicians such as Geri Allen and Joshua Redman.

Direction Ján Kadár

Cast Zero Mostel · Harry Belafonte · Ida Kaminska · Milo O'Shea

Plot Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He...