Brock Peters Movies

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

Actor Obba Babatundé hosts this biopic showcasing the life of acclaimed African-American singer and actress Dorothy Dandridge, who overcame...

A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.

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...

A man combs Los Angeles for his missing daughter, and discovers she belongs to a gang dealing in crack.

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...

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...

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

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...

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

This promotional short film for "Soylent Green" (1973) begins by showing clips of films that depicted what the future might be like beyond Earth. The...

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

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

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....

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...

The true story of Jim Brock, coach of the nationally-ranked Arizona State Sun Devil Baseball Team and how a man who has known the pressure of...