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- DirectorStanley KramerStarsSpencer TracySidney PoitierKatharine HepburnA couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.
- DirectorKevin Rodney SullivanStarsAshton KutcherBernie MacZoe SaldanaA young woman, Theresa, brings her boyfriend, Simon, home to meet her parents and surprise them with the news of their engagement. Another surprise: Simon is white.
- DirectorMira NairStarsDenzel WashingtonSarita ChoudhuryRoshan SethAn ethnic Indian family is expelled from Idi Amin's Uganda in 1972 and lives in Mississippi 17 years later. The dad sues Uganda to get his property back. The grown daughter falls in love with a Black man.
- DirectorVictor FlemingGeorge CukorSam WoodStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsFannie WardSessue HayakawaJack DeanA venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsDanny AielloOssie DavisRuby DeeOn the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsWesley SnipesAnnabella SciorraSpike LeeFriends and family of a married Black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.
- DirectorFred SchepisiStarsWill SmithStockard ChanningDonald SutherlandAn affluent New York City couple finds their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsClaudette ColbertWarren WilliamRochelle HudsonA struggling widow and her daughter take in a Black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsShirley YamaguchiDon TaylorCameron MitchellKorean War veteran returns home to rural Salinas, California with his new Japanese wife, whom he met at a war hospital. The couple are forced to deal with the sometimes subtle, sometimes overt racism of his family and the townspeople, especially after the birth of their son.
- DirectorTate TaylorStarsViola DavisEmma StoneOctavia SpencerAn aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishMae MarshHenry B. WalthallThe Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
- DirectorJohn HughesStarsMolly RingwaldAnthony Michael HallJustin HenryA girl's "sweet" sixteenth birthday is anything but special: her family forgets about it, and she suffers from every embarrassment possible.
- DirectorJoshua LoganStarsMarlon BrandoRicardo MontalbanPatricia OwensA US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsCharlton HestonOrson WellesJanet LeighA stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
- DirectorLuis ValdezStarsDaniel ValdezEdward James OlmosCharles AidmanWhen barrio leader Henry Reyna and his friends are unjustly convicted on circumstantial evidence, activist lawyers Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant racially motivated miscarriage of justice to win them their freedom.
- DirectorJohn LandisStarsEddie MurphyDan AykroydRalph BellamyA snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsDenzel WashingtonAngela BassettDelroy LindoBiographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsDamon WayansSavion GloverJada Pinkett SmithA frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.
- DirectorJohn SaylesStarsChris CooperElizabeth PeñaStephen MendilloWhen the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
- DirectorCherien DabisStarsNisreen FaourMelkar MuallemHiam AbbassA drama centered on the trials and tribulations of a proud Palestinian Christian immigrant single mother and her teenage son in small town Indiana.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsDenzel WashingtonClive OwenJodie FosterA police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.
- DirectorJon HurwitzHayden SchlossbergStarsJohn ChoKal PennNeil Patrick HarrisAfter being mistaken for terrorists and thrown into Guantánamo Bay, stoners Harold and Kumar escape and return to the U.S., where they proceed to flee across the country with federal agents in hot pursuit.
- DirectorRon ClementsJohn MuskerStarsAnika Noni RoseKeith DavidOprah WinfreyA waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.
- DirectorTony BancroftBarry CookStarsMing-Na WenEddie MurphyBD WongTo save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
- DirectorSt. Clair BourneStarsDanny AielloJennie BourneNandi BoweThe Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
- DirectorTerrell TaylorStarsErika AlexanderMarvin Arrington Jr.Angela BassettThe Election of President Barack Obama began on March 5, 1770 at the Boston Massacre with the death of Crispus Attucks.
- StarsMocean MelvinKen RogersCourteney CoxCelebrities are given the opportunity to research their family trees with surprising and often unexpected results.
- DirectorDeborah MoralesStarsKareem Abdul-JabbarMaya AngelouCarmelo AnthonyThe NBA's All-Time Leading Scorer and Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar presents On the Shoulders of Giants - the story of the greatest team you never heard of. The tale of the all-black Harlem Rens is a documentary film that connects positive role models and their will to succeed during a time when African Americans faced tremendous obstacles. Set in the 1930s, this unique documentary combines basketball and jazz with a blend of animation and 3D effects to a soundtrack of jazz infused with hip hop. Its more than a documentary, its a 'Documation' .
- DirectorSteven FischlerStarsGiorgio BertelliniPaul BorgheseJohn Caglione Jr.Documentary portrays the saga of how Italian Americans went from being outsiders who were stereotyped as gangsters in American movies to insiders in Hollywood who took control of their own stories. Interviews, film clips and home movies from Italian American filmmakers highlight personal experiences and comment on Hollywood's politics and cultural impact.
- DirectorGary SmithStarsTim AllenHalle BerryPeter BogdanovichThis special is a recounting of the top 100 movies of all time, updated from the list of 10 years ago aired in the first AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies.
- StarsIndia ArieMary J. BligeMariah CareyOprah Winfrey hosts a one-hour special chronicling her five-year effort in creating a leadership academy for disadvantaged girls in South Africa.
- StarsBrian KennySteve HirdtBob CostasA show which takes sports most memorable blunders, bad calls, and questionable moments and sheds a new light on them to show why the party who made the mistake should be let off the hook.
- DirectorJoe AngioStarsMarva AllenEmanuel AzenbergShelley R. BonusFeature-length documentary on renegade filmmaker, novelist, musician and theater impresario, Melvin Van Peebles.
- DirectorTodd WilliamsStarsDarryl M. BellBarry Alexander BrownTisha CampbellIntroduces behind-the-scenes of the movie, School Daze, along with interviews of the cast.
- DirectorKelly McPhersonStarsLance AcordBill BennettJohn Bowring
- DirectorJohn ScheinfeldStarsMichael PalinRoger EbertShirley MacLaineA short biography on the life of British actor Peter Sellers, often hailed as the greatest comic actor of all time. Included are clips from his early days in British television and rare footage of him performing on the popular radio series "The Goon Show", which began his meteoric rise. Colleagues, fellow actors and several directors who worked with him are interviewed.
- DirectorJohn ScheinfeldStarsJames B. HarrisRobert McNamaraBob WoodwardA documentary about the historical context of 'Dr. Strangelove'
- StarsBrahim HadjadjSpike LeeMira NairFive directors discuss the movie La battaglia di Algeri (1966) and the effect the movie has had on their career. Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Julian Schnabel, Steven Soderbergh and Oliver Stone are all individually interviewed in this short documentary.
- DirectorLorna AnozieStarsSpike LeeEdward NortonMartin ScorseseSpike Lee's filmmaking career is examined in this partial making-of for the film 25th Hour (2002). Interviews with cast members from this film and his past successes give us an idea what kind of dedicated person he truly is.
- DirectorNick DavisStarsMeryl StreepLauren BacallPeter BogdanovichMeryl Streep conducts us to a trip to New York City as presented in many films during the 20th Century, and how its cultural importance and impact are important to viewers. With a comprehensive gathering of clips from films between 1910's and 1990's, the documentary presents the mandatory classic films that presented the city and its multiple cultural variations, situations and the great stories filmed there. Actors and directors also discuss how they view the city in reality and also through the pictures.
- DirectorStan LathanStarsDebbie AllenCarl AndersonLouis ArmstrongSurvey of musical performers on film from the 20th century, organized into segments: Dancers, Divas, Rock and Soul, Jazz and Swing, Male Singers, and Hip Hop.
- DirectorSpike LeeSam PollardStarsBudd SchulbergClyde TaylorJack NewfieldA behind-the-scenes look at the making of Spike Lee's satirical take on the American entertainment industry, in which a black writer for a TV network, frustrated at his failure to get his ideas for a respectable comedy about a black family accepted, presents an idea for a blackface minstrel show, only to have his plan backfire. Includes interviews with director Lee and the rest of the cast and crew, who give their insights into the efforts that went into bringing this film to life.
- 19962h 50mNot Rated7.0 (126)TV MovieDirectorHermann VaskeStarsDennis HopperJon AmielRowan AtkinsonIn this unique film, Dennis Hopper sends Hermann Vaske on a mission around the world to find out about the crossover between creative disciplines, and how this is changing the creative and commercial arts.
- StarsJohn LithgowMatthew ModineKathleen TurnerThe history of Hollywood and filmmaking comes alive in this spectacular nine hour celebration of movie magic.
- DirectorCaroline ThomasStarsDon AmecheRichard AttenboroughDan AykroydThe art of filmmaking, coinciding with cinema's 100th anniversary, containing numerous interviews with some of the most influential film personalities of the 20th century.
- DirectorMichael BeltramiStarsPaul BartelJames BlakeleyTom BlissThis unique and thought-provoking documentary delves into the conflict between the art and business of filmmaking as it is enacted on the "battlefield" of Hollywood. Through a series of interviews with people working in all aspects of the movie industry - from films with budgets ranging from $20,000 to multi-million dollar projects, to people who are struggling to become a "player" in the business, Swiss writer/director Michael Beltrami takes an incisive, hard-hitting look at a medium where artistic vision must often conform to the dictates of business.
- DirectorBarry Alexander BrownStarsRanjit ChowdhryTirlok MalikAdelaide MillerThe dreams and aspirations about America and life of Arun, a young Indian in his 20s, change as he struggles to fit into a new and alien culture. His strained relationship with his rigidly traditional uncle, Max, further complicates his dilemma.