Bill Duke Movies

From 1979 to 1981, 29 African-American males, mostly children, were either missing or found murdered in metro Atlanta. The cases plagued the city...

A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by...

A nostalgic journey through ’80s Sci-Fi-films, exploring their impact and relevance today, told by the artists who made them and by those who...

A look at the development of film making and its contribution to the social and political times form the perspective of Black film makers.

Made especially for the HBO cable network, this well-wrought feature is comprised of three short stories by three noted black American authors, each...

'Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp', examines the tumultuous life of legendary Chicago pimp Iceberg Slim (1918-1992) and how he reinvented himself...

When someone is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that...

Set in 1974, a pair of '60s radicals rely on their bomb-making skills on their way to becoming capitalists.

A police officer is called by F.B.I. to infiltrate into gang of arms smugglers.

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

Set in a world not unlike mid-20th century America, The Vandal centers on Harold, whose tormented search for peace from traumatic loss results in an...

A troubled ex-con joins the colorful crew of an old movie theater and begins to rebuild his life, only to find his faith in God tested when he learns...

Prequel to the popular "Dallas" TV series focuses on the origins of the Ewing-Barnes feud during the 1930s. Narrated by Larry Hagman as J.R. Ewing,...

Amaryllis Campos is a young, classically trained Puerto Rican ballerina, who dreams of leaving her impoverished home in Puerto Rico to pursue fame...

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

Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconventional documentary directed by Fuller's only...

The most comprehensive retrospective of the '80s action film genre ever made.

Recounts the extraordinary segregation-era partnership between two surgeons--one black and one white--who defied the medical establishment and...

In Brian Helgeland's new director's cut of the film, Mel Gibson portrays Porter, a career criminal bent on revenge after his partners in a street...

A black family leaves the ghetto of Detroit to look for a better life in Los Angeles.