Search results for "Gordon Parks"

Moments Without Proper Names (1987)

Moments Without Proper Names (1987)

Moments Without Proper Names (1987)
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Parks makes himself the subject, tracing his development as a person and an artist through a non-narrative abstract self-portrait that combines his photographs with his poetry, musical compositions and scenes…

Solomon Northup’s Odyssey (1984)

Solomon Northup’s Odyssey (1984)

Solomon Northup’s Odyssey (1984)
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This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He’s a born free man who works as…

Leadbelly (1976)

Leadbelly (1976)

Leadbelly (1976)
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The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent…

Genre: Drama
The Super Cops (1974)

The Super Cops (1974)

The Super Cops (1974)
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The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as “Batman & Robin”.

Shaft’s Big Score! (1972)

Shaft’s Big Score! (1972)

Shaft’s Big Score! (1972)
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105

John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.

Shaft (1971)

Shaft (1971)

Shaft (1971)
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100

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

The Learning Tree (1969)

The Learning Tree (1969)

The Learning Tree (1969)
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107

The story, set in Kansas during the 1920’s, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The World of Piri Thomas (1968)

The World of Piri Thomas (1968)

The World of Piri Thomas (1968)
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60

Piri Thomas, a painter, poet, author, ex-con, and ex-junkie, describes the life of a Puerto Rican in the Spanish Harlem ghetto in New York City.