Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield scored Oscar nominations for their portrayals of a sharecropping family with a son who are divided by a prison stint.

At 110 years old, a Louisiana woman born into slavery recounts her experience from the Civil War through her involvement in the civil rights movement.

Starring Cicely Tyson. Elderly Mrs. Watts is forbidden to travel alone by her overprotective son. Undeterred, she escapes to a bus station and begins a journey to her hometown. Adapted from Horton Foote's Tony-nominated play.

After being called upon to help her troubled granddaughter, a Southern black woman in her 70s looks back on a life filled with joy and heartbreak.

When a boy growing up in a low income area becomes a heroin addict, his mother and foster father do their best to help him change his life.

This adaptation of Marcy Heidish's novel tells the story of escaped slave Harriet Tubman who risks recapture to organize the Underground Railroad.

On August 11, 1965, a routine traffic stop on a hot summer night sparks years of pent-up frustration within Los Angeles' African American community into a race riot that shocks the United States as it rages out of control for days. In this true story, when the all-white staff of main newspaper in the city, The Los Angeles Times, cannot get into work, a young, black trainee Robert Richardson writes a series of Pulitzer prize-winning articles covering the riots. But as Richardson witnesses the excessive violence used by the police and national guard, he is torn between the impartiality required of a reporter and his need to rage against injustice.

The director of a foster home is forced to move her kids from Philadelphia to Seattle in a broken down bus - driven by a fast-talking parolee assigned to the task. A hilarious road trip adventure.

A dying woman, her poet husband, their ex-Air Force son and militants hide in their ghetto home.

Rosa Parks recalls events leading to her peaceful defiance against racial bus segregation and inspiring the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott.

A young family moves into a historic home in Georgia, only to learn they are not the house's only inhabitants. Soon they find themselves in the presence of a secret rising from underground and threatening to bring down anyone in its path.

Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920's Alabama. Through Idgie's inspiring life, Evelyn learns to be more assertive and builds a lasting friendship of her own with Ninny.

After being released on parole, a gangster returns home to 1930s Harlem to show the New York mafia that if he can’t join them, it’s time to kill them.

When gentle, law-abiding Grace confesses to killing her new husband, her skeptical young lawyer sets out to uncover the truth. A film by Tyler Perry.

Outraged by the treatment of New York City’s unhoused residents, an activist brings national attention to the issue by taking their case to Congress.

Hip-hop stars and music legends render a dazzling tale of two friends, and how greed, fame, and murder threaten to break them and the ties that bind.

A couple's seemingly solid marriage crumbles when the wife discovers that her husband intends to divorce her. Heartbroken, she moves in with her sassy grandmother who helps her overcome the trauma.