Akeelah is a precocious 11-year-old girl from south Los Angeles with a gift for words. Despite her mother's objections, Akeelah enters various spelling contests, for which she is tutored by the forthright Dr. Larabee, her principal Mr. Welch, and the proud residents of her neighborhood. Akeelah's aptitude earns her an opportunity to compete for a spot in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-...
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...
Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about th...
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...
When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep ...
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bi...
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions...
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial ...
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a y...
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a ...
After the death of Raya Green's sister, she gets out from her classes at school, and sees a stomp cr...
Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black ...
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotli...
When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, the Democratic party ...
The clock strikes midnight, money changes hands, the crowd is on their feet, and the court is alive ...
Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy bui...
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn j...
Wife and mother Miriam begins a downward emotional spiral as her husband avoids their collapsing mar...
Freedom means only one thing: riding your dirt bike in the street, front wheel aimed at the sky.