Melvin Van Peebles

Enid introduces the young boy she babysits to the eccentric residents of the local park, but a good deed gone awry lands them all in trouble.

The Seventies were sexy and sleazy. At the epicenter of it all was Plato's Retreat, the controversial, first-ever swingers club. American Swing brings this enigmatic epic of excess to the screen for the first time.

A landmark of Black and American independent cinema that would send shock waves through the culture, Melvin Van Peebles’s revolutionary second feature film—made on Van Peebles’s own terms with the filmmaker acting as producer, director, writer, composer, editor, and star—created the prototype for what Hollywood would eventually co-opt and make into the blaxploitation hero.

Forty-five years after the release of “Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song,” Mario Van Peebles looks back at the illustrious career of his father.

A skydiving instructor falls hard for one of his students.

Concealing his true identity, a struggling actor hides from mobsters