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Louis Gossett Jr.

Louis Gossett Jr. is an American actor who has appeared in numerous films, TV shows, and stage productions throughout his career. He is best known for his roles in the films An Officer and a Gentleman, Iron Eagle, and The Principal, as well as the TV series Roots and The Good Fight.

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Freeman

Freeman

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1977 IMDB Rating: 8.3

This 1977 drama by Phillip Hayes Dean, deals with the sad division between what a man hopes for and what he achieves. In the title role, Dick Anthony Williams portrays a naïve, ambitious, recklessly o...

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A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1961 IMDB Rating: 8

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets...

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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 7.8

A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her exuberant life during some of America’s most defining c...

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The Book of Negroes

The Book of Negroes

Series Age rating: 14 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Kidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution in New York, isolation in Nova Scotia and treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, in an attempt to secu...

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An Officer and a Gentleman

An Officer and a Gentleman

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 7

Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Fole...

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Skin Game

Skin Game

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1971 IMDB Rating: 7

Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in the pre–Civil War American West. In their scam, Q...

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Sudie and Simpson

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1990 IMDB Rating: 6.9

A television movie about the friendship that develops between a young white girl and an older black man in a racist, rural Georgia town during the 1940s.

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Diggstown

Diggstown

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1992 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man. The business man owns most of a boxing-mad town called Diggstown. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that...

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Three Months

Three Months

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Coming-of-age film about Caleb, a South Florida teen. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when he's exposed to HIV. While he waits three months for his results, he finds love...

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Enemy Mine

Enemy Mine

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 6.8

A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive o...

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