Brock Peters Movies

Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values...

A documentary about the making of "To Kill a Mockingbird."

In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely denied...

A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring modern medicine to the local folks in the...

A man combs Los Angeles for his missing daughter, and discovers she belongs to a gang dealing in crack.

The true story of Jan Scruggs, an embittered Vietnam veteran who returns from the war a broken man. However, with the help of his loving wife Becky,...

A Confederate officer kidnaps for a $1,000,000 ransom five well-to-do children from a Yankee boarding school; a wounded black Union soldier helps...

Actor Obba Babatundé hosts this biopic showcasing the life of acclaimed African-American singer and actress Dorothy Dandridge, who overcame...

An independent filmmaker has left his profession and keeps it a secret. Years later, his niece finds his old films in a locked trunk and discovers...

Mahalia Jackson was the greatest gospel singer in the world. Shortly before her death in 1972, she embarked on a triumphant European tour, and this...

A military school graduation ceremony is interrupted when a student's dope-smuggling father is killed in the gym.

Slick amoral con man Mickey is out to fleece attractive women. But three of them join forces to bring him to justice.

This promotional short film for "Soylent Green" (1973) begins by showing clips of films that depicted what the future might be like beyond Earth. The...

In this alleged retelling of Lincoln's early life, the President-to-be is rescued by Henry, a Black man and freed slave who has lost his papers....

A writer reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection after a safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, after Earnest Hemingway's short...

An all-black version of Oscar Wilde's play.

The true story of Jim Brock, coach of the nationally-ranked Arizona State Sun Devil Baseball Team and how a man who has known the pressure of...