Movies: Kwame Kwei-Armah

  • 2022
    Breaking

    Breaking (2022)

    Breaking

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    Desperate for money and running out of options, Marine veteran Brian Brown-Easley holds several people hostage inside a bank, setting the stage for a tense confrontation with police....

    Breaking
  • 1995
    Cutthroat Island

    Cutthroat Island (1995)

    Cutthroat Island

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    Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by her murderous uncle, Dawg. Her crew is skeptical of her leadership abilities, so she must complete h...

    Cutthroat Island
  • 1998
    Gunslinger's Revenge

    Gunslinger's Revenge (1998)

    Gunslinger's Revenge

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    The idealistic lifestyle of an old West farmer, his Indian wife, and half-breed son is interrupted when the boy's old gunslinger father returns. They are not happy with his return despite the old gunslinger's intention to retire. Things take a turn f...

    Gunslinger's Revenge
  • 2004
    Pride

    Pride (2004)

    Pride

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    The story of Suki, a lioness cub, who rebels against her mother and her Pride to mate with an unsuitable lion from the other side of the river....

    Pride
  • 1983
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation (1983)

    Birth of a Nation

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    A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 2006
    Fade to Black

    Fade to Black (2006)

    Fade to Black

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    Still reeling from the painful breakup of his marriage to screen siren Rita Hayworth, filmmaker Orson Welles makes his way to Rome, where he gets pulled into a tangled political plot involving murder and mysterious motives. A beautiful actress proves...

    Fade to Black
  • 1969
    The Collaboration

    The Collaboration (1969)

    The Collaboration

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    A look into the unique and rich friendship between pop art legend Andy Warhol and neo-expressionist icon Jean-Michel Basquiat, exploring their extraordinary creative partnership during the 1980s, and how their work together was propelled by their con...

    The Collaboration
  • 1991
    Escape From Kampala

    Escape From Kampala (1991)

    Escape From Kampala

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    The true story of a daring prison break. Wycliffe Kato, Director of Civil Aviation in Idi Amin's Uganda was at the airport to catch a flight to Canada for a conference when he was arrested by Amin's secret police, members of the notorious State Resea...

    Escape From Kampala
  • 2008
    Black Power Salute

    Black Power Salute (2008)

    Black Power Salute

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    A film about one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, the moment when the radical spirit of the 1960s upstaged the greatest sporting event in the world. Two men made a courageous gesture that reverberated around the world, and changed their...

    Black Power Salute
  • 2021
    Twelfth Night

    Twelfth Night (2021)

    Twelfth Night

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    Twelfth Night is a rousing contemporary musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy about mistaken identity and self-discovery. On the twelfth day of Christmas, shipwrecked Viola washes up on the shores of Illyria, disguises herself a...

    Twelfth Night
  • 2008
    Walter's War

    Walter's War (2008)

    Walter's War

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    Drama inspired by the life of Walter Tull who, after years in an orphanage, went on to become a professional footballer and then the first black commissioned officer to lead British troops during WW1. The action concerns Tull's turbulent passage fro...

    Walter's War
  • 2020
    Africa Turns the Page: The Novels That Shaped a Continent

    Africa Turns the Page: The Novels That Shaped a Continent (2020)

    Africa Turns the Page: The Novels That Shaped a Continent

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    David Olusoga explores the incredible journey of the African novel – how a fearless collection of writers created books that were to define the image of Africa in the world....

    Africa Turns the Page: The Novels That Shaped a Continent
  • 1969
    The Saint

    The Saint (1969)

    The Saint

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    Simon Templar creates false identities named after saints in order to steal money from various criminal organizations and redistribute the wealth to others....

    The Saint
  • 2021
    Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking

    Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking (2021)

    Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking

    5.52021HD

    A look at the extraordinary achievements and contemporary legacy of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African-American film industry....

    Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
  • 2004
    Elmina’s Kitchen

    Elmina’s Kitchen (2004)

    Elmina’s Kitchen

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    Chronicles “the trials of a Hackney cafe-owner trying to prevent his son from getting involved in London's gun culture.” - Radio Times (2004)...

    Elmina’s Kitchen
  • 1969
    Marked Man

    Marked Man (1969)

    Marked Man

    01969HD

    Set in the 1920s, Marked Man follows a young black man who joins J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation and then infiltrates Garvey’s UNIA organization, testing his loyalty to both race and country as he grows weary of both men’s actions....

    Marked Man
  • 1969
    Boner

    Boner (1969)

    Boner

    01969HD

    A musical based on Viagra, Pfizer's erectile dysfunction drug. Based on the article, “All Rise: The Untold Story of the Guys Who Launched Viagra.”...

    Boner
  • 2021
    Swingin' the Dream

    Swingin' the Dream (2021)

    Swingin' the Dream

    02021HD

    A concert of a work in progress including original music and songs from the 1939 production telling the story of an intriguing Broadway musical adaptation of Shakespeare. This jazz-infused version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream opened in 1939 with a he...

    Swingin' the Dream