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Ride To Freedom: The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
Director: Julie Dash
Starring: Angela Bassett, Cicely Tyson, Peter Francis James
Angela Bassett stars in this compelling docudrama about the strong-willed NAACP secretary whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman... Read more
Bustin' Loose (1981)
6.1/10
Director: Oz Scott
Starring: Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson, George Coe, Robert Christian
Starring comic genius Richard Pryor, this raucous, light-hearted comedy is the entertaining tale of shifty ex-con Joe Braxton who after finding himsel... Read more
Sounder (1972)
7.6/10
Director: Martin Ritt
Starring: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Taj Mahal
Set in rural Louisiana during the Depression, "Sounder" is the heartfelt story of a sharecropper family struggling to overcome adversity. After steali... Read more
Last Flag Flying (2017)
6.9/10
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Cicely Tyson, Laurence Fishburne, Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, Yul Vazquel
Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry "Doc" Shepherd, Sal Nealon and the Rev. Richard Mueller reunite for a different type of... Read more
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
6.4/10
Director: Wayne Wang
Starring: AnnaSophia Robb, Jeff Daniels, Cicely Tyson, Dave Matthews, Eva Marie Saint
Based on the award-winning children's book by Kate DiCamillo, Winn-Dixie is an awkward mutt who adopts lonely 10-year-old Opal. Together they investi... Read more
Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
5.8/10
Director: Darren Grant
Starring: Kimberly Elise, Steve Harris, Tamara Taylor, Shemar Moore, Lisa Marcos, Tiffany...
Helen and Charles seem to have the idyllic marriage, unitl one day Charles brings his mistress home and kicks Helen out! The dejected wife runs back... Read more
A Man Called Adam (1966)
6.5/10
Director: Leo Penn
Starring: Cicely Tyson, Louis Armstrong, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr, Mel Torme, Frank S...
In a rare dramatic role, Sammy Davis, Jr. stars as a jazz trumpet player who seemingly has it all. Blaming himself for the traffic accident that kille... Read more
Madea's Family Reunion (2006)
5.1/10
Director: Tyler Perry
Starring: Tyler Perry, Blair Underwood, Lynn Whitfield, Boris Kodjoe, Henry Simmons, Lisa...
Tyler Perry adapted his play, directed and also played three characters in his sequel to 'Diary of a Mad Black Woman', in which pistol-packing grandma... Read more
Idlewild (2006)
6.2/10
Director: Bryan Barber
Starring: Big Boi , Andre Benjamin, Macy Gray, Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, Paula Patton,...
Andre Benjamin and Big Boi (both from hip-hop band Outkast) star in this raucous, larger-than-life action/comedy/musical set in prohibition-era Virgin... Read more
Roots (1977)
8.4/10
Director: David Greene, Gilbert Moses, John Erman, Marvin Chomsky
Starring: John Amos, Maya Angelou, Edward Asner, Lloyd Bridges, Georg Stanford Brown, LeVa...
His name was Kunta Kinte. Kidnapped from Africa and enslaved in America in 1767, he refused to accept his slave name of Toby. Heirs kept his heroic de... Read more