Ashton Sanders
10 titles
Filmography
10 results

Wu-Tang: An American Saga
In early 1990s New York, Bobby Diggs strives to unite a dozen young black men who are torn between music and crime but eventually rise to become the unlikeliest of American success stories.

The Retrieval
(2013)1864: the Civil War ravages the nation. Will is a fatherless thirteen-year-old boy who survives by working with a white bounty hunter gang. They send him to earn the trust of runaway slaves in order to lure them back to the south. On a dangerous mission into the free north to find Nate, a fugitive freedman, things go wrong and Will and Nate find themselves on the run.

All Day and a Night
(2020)While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

Native Son
(2019)The modern reimagining of Richard Wright's 1940 novel, Native Son, follows Bigger Thomas, a young African American man who takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family -- a decision that has tragic and unforeseen consequences.

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
(2022)The complex and untold story of the incomparable Whitney Houston, the voice of a generation.

Captive State
(2019)Residents of Chicago form a resistance group to fight back against 10 years of alien occupation.

The Equalizer 2
(2018)Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed—but how far will he go when it is someone he loves?

Moonlight
(2016)A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, chronicling the life of a black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles with his identity growing up in a rough Miami neighbourhood. Winner of Best Picture at the Academy Awards 2017.

Judas and the Black Messiah
(2021)Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panther Party per FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Party Chairman Fred Hampton ascends, falling for a fellow revolutionary en route, a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.

Dead Women Walking
(2018)Nine diverse women on death row are each put through the agonizing bureaucratic motions in their final days and moments of life before execution.