Brock Peters Movies

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

A military school graduation ceremony is interrupted when a student's dope-smuggling father is killed in the gym.

Mostly on account of a pride struggle, Mike Dunmore has lived his whole life keeping a secret which he believed would only cause shame if it came to...

Residents of a black Missouri community experience a long and eventful day of reckoning.

The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on a homemade raft, and their encounter with the...

Slick amoral con man Mickey is out to fleece attractive women. But three of them join forces to bring him to justice.

A documentary about the making of "To Kill a Mockingbird."

An independent filmmaker has left his profession and keeps it a secret. Years later, his niece finds his old films in a locked trunk and discovers...

An all-black version of Oscar Wilde's play.

Rob Baskin, a businessman who travels to Lake Tahoe in order to spread the ashes of his late mother, meets Ann Field, a woman who'll change his life...

An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is...

A Confederate officer kidnaps for a $1,000,000 ransom five well-to-do children from a Yankee boarding school; a wounded black Union soldier helps...

A writer reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection after a safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, after Earnest Hemingway's short...

Mahalia Jackson was the greatest gospel singer in the world. Shortly before her death in 1972, she embarked on a triumphant European tour, and this...

Jack Johnson is a 1970 documentary film directed by Jim Jacobs about the boxer Jack Johnson.

In this alleged retelling of Lincoln's early life, the President-to-be is rescued by Henry, a Black man and freed slave who has lost his papers....