Screenplay: Lonne Elder III

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Cicely Tyson · Paul Winfield · Kevin Hooks · Carmen Mathews

Synopsis The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After...

Direction Oz Scott

Cast Richard Pryor · Edwin DeLeon · Ángel Ramírez · Cicely Tyson

Synopsis Joe Braxton is an ex-con who has been given a second chance to freedom after violating his probation. He has been hired by a school teacher named Vivian Perry to repair and drive an old school bus and drive a...

Direction Joshua Brand · John Falsey · Jack Bender · Ian Sander

Cast Sam Waterston · Regina Taylor · Jeremy London · Ashlee Levitch

Synopsis TV Series (1991-1993). 2 Seasons. D. A. Forrest Bedford (Sam Waterston) is a Southern lawyer in the late 1950s, generally content with his privileged life. But the winds of change are blowing...

Direction Hugh A. Robertson

Cast Calvin Lockhart · Rosalind Cash · Vonetta McGee · Paul Stevens

Direction Paul Wendkos

Cast Cicely Tyson · Will Geer · Robert Hooks · James Wainwright

Synopsis This television mini series stars Cicely Tyson, in one of her best performances, as Harriet Ross Tubman, the founder of the Underground Railroad, which provided a road to Northern freedom for hundreds of slaves. Orson Welles narrates her amazing story,...