ChannelHopper.org > Olivia Cole

AD SPACE
Picture of Olivia Cole

Olivia Cole

Olivia Cole was an American actress best known for her role in the 1977 TV miniseries "Roots," in which she won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She had also appeared in numerous other TV shows and films throughout her career. Cole passed away in January 2018 at the age of 75.

Titles credited to Olivia Cole

Roots

Roots

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 1977 IMDB Rating: 8.4

The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was first told in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of a...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >
The Women of Brewster Place

The Women of Brewster Place

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >
Brewster Place

Brewster Place

Series Age rating: 14 Year: 1990 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Brewster Place is a short lived American drama series which aired on ABC in May 1990. The series was a spinoff of the 1989 miniseries The Women of Brewster Place, which was based upon Gloria Naylor's...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >
The Sky Is Gray

The Sky Is Gray

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Drama - From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively simple, yet emotionally complex tale of a young boy's discovery of what it's like to be black in...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >
Go Tell It on the Mountain

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 6.7

This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling...

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >
Heroes

Heroes

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1977 IMDB Rating: 6

A Vietnam veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder breaks out of a VA hospital and goes on a road trip with a sympathetic traveler to find out what became of the other men in his unit.

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >
Some Kind of Hero

Some Kind of Hero

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 5.8

A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.

Find out more, including where to stream or buy >