Carmen Jones (1954) more movies like this

directed by Otto Preminger
featuring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Olga James, Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll

In 1943, Oscar Hammerstein Jr. took Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, rewrote the lyrics, changed the characters from 19th century Spaniards to World War II-era African-Americans, switched the locale to a Southern military base, and the result was Carmen Jones. Dorothy Dandridge stars as Carmen Jones, tempestuous employee of a parachute factory. Harry ...

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When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) more movies like this

directed by Spike Lee
featuring Harry Belafonte

Academy Award-nominated director Spike Lee (the guiding force behind the critically acclaimed documentary 4 Little Girls) turns to nonfiction filmmaking once again with the heart-wrenching marathon work When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, produced by Lee's Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks and originally screened on HBO. In four "acts" ...

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White Man's Burden (1995) more movies like this

directed by Desmond Nakano
featuring John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Kelly Lynch, Margaret Avery, Tom Bower

From director-writer Desmond Nakano comes this unusual role-reversal picture examining racism from a different perspective. Louis Pinnock (John Travolta) is a semi-literate worker in a chocolate candy factory. One day he makes a delivery to the mansion of wealthy Thaddeus Thomas (Harry Belafonte). He is noticed while he is unintentionally looking ...

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Uptown Saturday Night (1974) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Poitier
featuring Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, Calvin Lockhart, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor

Uptown Saturday Night is a delightful comedy directed by and starring Sidney Poitier. Steve Jackson (Sidney Poitier) is a factory worker. One evening, when boredom gets the best of him, Steve and his pal Wardell (Bill Cosby) decide to go to an underground gambling club to have some fun. While they are there the place is held-up and Steve's wallet ...

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Bobby (2006) more movies like this

directed by Emilio Estevez
featuring Harry Belafonte, Joy Bryant, Nick Cannon, Emilio Estevez, Sharon Stone, Laurence Fishburne

Twenty-two people become unwitting participants in a tragic and defining moment of the 1960's in this period drama from actor and director Emilio Estevez. It's early June in 1968, and the California presidential primary elections are occupying the minds of many in the Golden State, with Robert F. Kennedy in a close race against Eugene McCarthy and ...

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Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) more movies like this

directed by Robert Wise, Wise
featuring Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley, Sr., Gloria Grahame

Harry Belafonte was both producer and star of this hard-edged film noir crime drama. Dave Burke (Ed Begley, Sr.) is an ex-cop who has been kicked off the force for refusing to inform on his colleagues to the State Crime Committee. Short on money, the former policeman jumps to the other side of the law and plans to knock over a bank in upstate ...

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Kansas City (1996) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte, Michael Murphy, Dermot Mulroney

The jazz world of 1930s Kansas City serves as the backdrop for an offbeat story of kidnapping, political corruption, and organized crime in director Robert Altman's loving but unsentimental look at his childhood hometown. The film's intricate story is triggered by petty thief Johnny O'Hara (Dermot Mulroney), who aims for a big score by trying to ...

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Buck and the Preacher (1972) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Poitier
featuring Cameron Mitchell, Denny Miller, Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte

Sidney Poitier makes his directorial debut with the 1972 Western Buck and the Preacher, set during the end of the Civil War. Poitier stars as Buck, an ex-Army soldier who is scouting sites for the former slaves that want to settle out West. The villainous Deshay (Cameron Mitchell) rounds up his gang to try to stop Buck because he wants to keep the ...

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The Angel Levine (1970) more movies like this

directed by Ján Kadár
featuring Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska, Milo O'Shea, Gloria Foster

Bernard Malamud seldom saw his works faithfully transferred to the screen (take a look at The Natural sometime), but he issued no complaints over the cinemazation of his The Angel Levine. Zero Mostel plays an elderly Jew whose life experiences have left him an embittered agnostic. Into Mostel's life floats Alexander Levine (Harry Belafonte), who ...

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King (2008) more movies like this

Celebrated newsman Tom Brokaw headlines this feature-length, eponymous documentary portrait of the life of revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.. A program originally produced for cable's History Channel to commemorate the 40th anniversary of King's death, it affords equal attention to King himself, the myths and legacies that have ...

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The Peace! DVD (2004) more movies like this

directed by Gabriele Zamparini, Lorenzo Meccoli
featuring Harry Belafonte, Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, Ossie Davis, Danny Glover

A pair of pacifist-minded documentarians reach out to dozens of their generation's greatest thinkers in a bid to ensure a peaceful future for all in this documentary that encourages viewers to take an active role in the peace process. From September 2002 to May 2003, filmmakers Gabriele Zamparini and Lorenzo Meccoli conducted interviews with such ...

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