Search results for "Gordon Parks"
The World of Piri Thomas

The World of Piri Thomas

The World of Piri Thomas
IMDb: 6.9
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.

Moments Without Proper Names

Moments Without Proper Names

Moments Without Proper Names
IMDb: 7.4
59

Moments Without Proper Names makes Parks makes himself the subject, tracing his development as a person and an artist through an hourlong, non-narrative abstract self-portrait that combines Parks’s photographs with…

Solomon Northup’s Odyssey

Solomon Northup’s Odyssey

Solomon Northup’s Odyssey
IMDb: 7.3
115

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 freeman who works as a…

Leadbelly

Leadbelly

Leadbelly
IMDb: 7.2
126

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

The Super Cops

The Super Cops
IMDb: 6.6
90

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!

Shaft’s Big Score!

Shaft’s Big Score!
IMDb: 6
104

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

Shaft

Shaft

Shaft
IMDb: 6.6
100

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

The Learning Tree

The Learning Tree

The Learning Tree
IMDb: 7.1
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: Drama