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Ossie Davis

Ossie Davis was an American actor, writer, and director known for his civil rights activism. He appeared in films such as "Do the Right Thing" and "Malcolm X" and received an Emmy award for his role in "Miss Evers' Boys". Davis was married to actress and activist Ruby Dee and the duo were known for their advocacy work. He passed away in 2005.

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I'm Not Rappaport

I'm Not Rappaport

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1996 IMDB Rating: 6.5

Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threat...

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Gladiator

Gladiator

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1992 IMDB Rating: 6.5

Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight he is noticed and quickly falls into the world of illegal undergro...

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Dinosaur

Dinosaur

Film Age rating: 4 Year: 2000 IMDB Rating: 6.4

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

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School Daze

School Daze

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 6.1

Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.

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Joe Versus the Volcano

Joe Versus the Volcano

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1990 IMDB Rating: 5.9

Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious vi...

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Finding Buck McHenry

Finding Buck McHenry

Film Age rating: 19 Year: 2000 IMDB Rating: 5.9

When an 11 year old boy gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team.

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Sam Whiskey

Sam Whiskey

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1969 IMDB Rating: 5.9

Sam Whiskey is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura's dead husband stole recently, from a sunken ship and se...

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Harry & Son

Harry & Son

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 5.8

Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard's lackadaisical lifestyle and has a st...

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Proud

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2004 IMDB Rating: 5.6

The true story of the only African-American crew to take a Navy warship into combat in World War II.

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Doctor Dolittle

Doctor Dolittle

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1998 IMDB Rating: 5.4

A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is sud...

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