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Two old men a white former radical, and a black retired janitor strike up an unusual and funny friendship on a park bench in New York, where they deal with family, drug dealers, and the pitfalls of age

A doctor discovers that he can communicate with animals

A journey into the life and work of beat poet and activist Bob Kaufman and his insistence that poetry is fundamental to humanitys moral survival

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyones hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence

A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student

An African dictator Wole Soyinka seeks advice from the king Rashidi Onikoyi he ousted on modernizing his tribal nation

A profile of the African American actress Beah Richards, who was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Guess Whos Coming to Dinner

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources

Four Vietnam Vets go to war against the drug dealers and pimps of Harlem

An aspiring dancer and her wicked sisters resent their mothers love for a foster daughter

A seemingly haunted painting drives a greedy man insane A rich blind woman gets a new pair of eyes that allow her to see for only one brief ironic moment An idyllic painting gives a Nazi war criminal in hiding some fleeting comfort

Twelve men must decide the fate of one when one juror objects to the jurys decision

Two Harlem cops investigate a robbery, believing that a reverend has staged it in order to steal the money hes collected for a local fundraiser

The words Black Power bring back memories of names like Stokely Carmichael, H Rap Brown, and Eldridge Cleaver, but in Bogalusa, LA a group of harassed Afro Americans had decided theyd

A disparate group of African American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March

Elvis Presley and a black JFK stay in a nursing home where nothing happens until a wayward Egyptian mummy comes and sucks out the old peoples souls thru their a holes The two decide to fight back

A business executives life is turned upside down when his wife contracts a debilitating disease