Mario Van Peebles

In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song: ...

1908. Chief returns from years of hiding in Mexico to claim stolen reparations gold hidden in the hills of Montana but is chased by Angel, whose ...

A girl from New York attends a college in Atlanta to join their once-famous marching band.

The story centers on Charlie, a Los Angeles billionaire financial whiz who goes into self-imposed exile in Tijuana after his empire is revealed ...

In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely ...

An android fighting-machine is charged with destroying a small brigade of rebels in a Latin American war who are fighting to maintain their ...

Ricky Bell, an all-pro running back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who died of a rare muscle disease in the prime of his career. The plot centers ...