Sounder (1972)
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food
A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
In the 1940s South, an African American man is wrongly accused of the killing of a white store owner In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he
Bustin Loose (1981)
Failed parolee Joe Braxton has one last shot at redemption by driving school kids to Philadelphia
Relative Stranger (2009)
After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier
A Hero Aint Nothin But a Sandwich (1978)
A troubled boy Larry B Scott becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother Cicely Tyson and foster father Paul Winfield help him fight it
Maya Angelou and Still I Rise (2016)
The first feature documentary about the remarkable writer, poet, actress, activist Maya Angelou