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An imprisoned I R A fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly faceless assassin from completing his next job

A couples attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African American fiance

A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family

During the 1960s, two American expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls

A security pro finds his past returning to haunt him when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item

In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex scout searches for the killer of his Indian wife, and a housewife abandons her husband in order to rejoin her Apache lovers tribe

A wagon master and a con man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap labor agents out West

Set up and wrongfully accused, two best friends are sent to prison for a crime they didnt commit However, no prison cell can keep them locked in a cage

Two Atlanta men raise funds for their charity by rigging boxing matches in New Orleans, but their tricks attract the mobs attention

Idealistic engineer trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of Londons East End

After 30 years of teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in an inner city school proves to be too much to resist

An F B I Agent works to uncover an All American family as Soviet sleeper Agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their unaware son

A retired Chicago cop blackmails two rich thieves into volunteering to help juvenile delinquents change paths

A man who returns to his hometown for a funeral may have a much larger purpose in life than those around him can see

The growing friendship of two NYC longshoremen is threatened by a notably repellent punk

At Madame Zenobias illegal nightclub, when Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin get robbed of their wallets containing a winning lottery ticket, they set out to recover it

A widowed father tries to support his children after he becomes a ghost in an accident

A travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert

Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer This film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice globally

Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged Southern belle in the ante bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers that her mother was Black

A black anti Apartheid activist and a British engineer are forced to run from South African Secret Police

A vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find The Mother of All Voices, a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of Hercules

An American destroyer Captain is determined to confront a Soviet submarine caught violating territorial waters Perhaps too determined

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world

Completely innocent man, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him When shes later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run

In San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen

The life of actor and activist Paul Robeson

In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo Canada Lee journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal Reverend Misimangu Sidney Poiti

An F B I Agent teams up with a tracker to pursue a murderer after he vanishes into the mountains and infiltrates a hiking group

Upon learning their maid will be leaving to earn an education, the son of the family decides to set her up with a man

Two chained together escaped convicts, White and Black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture

In San Francisco, a high priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs

Eight small town teens travel to New York City for a one in a million shot at stardom in a national dance competition