Ossie Davis

Ossie Davis

Born: December 17, 1917
Died: February 4, 2005
in Cogdell, Georgia, USA
Raiford Chatman "Ossie" Davis (December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American actor, director, writer, and activist.

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Movies for Ossie Davis...

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Title: Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Character: Self (archive Footage)
Released: October 27, 2022
Type: Movie
An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings and personal conversations. This definitive documentary honors Armstrong's legacy as a founding father of jazz, one of the first internationally known and beloved stars, and a cultural ambassador of the United States.
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Title: Folk Britannia
Character: Self (archival footage)
Released: February 3, 2006
Type: TV
Three 1-hour films exploring British folk music from the rebirth of English romance to the latter day revival.
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The Peace!
Title: The Peace!
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 2005
Type: Movie
Amid an escalating war in Iraq, rising terror levels and the threat of nuclear attack, a growing body of intellectuals, religious leaders and community organizers are getting tough with their questions about peace -- and that's no oxymoron. To shed light on the answers, filmmakers Gabriele Zamparini and Lorenzo Meccoli record a variety of speakers, including Noam Chomsky, Desmond Tutu, Scott Ritter, Pete Seeger, Howard Zinn and Gore Vidal.
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The History Makers: Success
Title: The History Makers: Success
Character: Himself
Released: February 15, 2005
Type: Movie
Ossie Davis, Terry McMillan, Horace Julian Bond, Isaac Hayes, Dionne Warwick and many others share their inspiring stories of success in the first installment of this series about African-American history makers, including civil rights leaders, actors and authors. A good education, dedication to work, dogged determination and the courage to take risks figure prominently in these remarkable success stories told by notable African Americans.
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Unstoppable
Title: Unstoppable
Character: Self
Released: February 13, 2005
Type: Movie
An interview/overview on the influential careers of Gordon Parks, Ossie Davis, and Melvin Van Peebles.
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By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
Title: By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
Character: Self
Released: February 8, 2005
Type: Movie
A short documentary about the making of Spike Lee's biopic, "Malcolm X."
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She Hate Me
Title: She Hate Me
Character: Judge Buchanan
Released: July 30, 2004
Type: Movie
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
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Proud
Title: Proud
Character: Lorenzo DuFau
Released: July 2, 2004
Type: Movie
The true story of the only African-American crew to take a Navy warship into combat in World War II.
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Baadasssss!
Title: Baadasssss!
Character: Granddad
Released: May 28, 2004
Type: Movie
Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playing his father in the film, Van Peebles offers an unapologetic account of Melvin's brash and sometimes deceptive conduct on the set of the film, including questionable antics like writing bad checks, tricking a local fire department and allowing his son, Mario, to shoot racy sex scenes at the age of 11.
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Title: TV Revolution
Released: May 23, 2004
Type: TV
By blending history with the portrayal of sex, violence, minorities, women and homosexuality on television, "TV Revolution" touches on some of the greatest and most controversial moments of the small screen.
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Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
Title: Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
Character: Self
Released: February 25, 2004
Type: Movie
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, it won the Documentary Award at the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival in 2003.
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Title: The L Word
Character: Melvin Porter
Released: January 18, 2004
Type: TV
A group of lesbian friends struggle with romance and careers in Los Angeles.
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The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Title: The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Character: Self
Released: May 20, 2003
Type: Movie
Spike Lee's filmmaking career is examined in this partial making-of for the film 25th Hour (2002). Interviews with cast members from this film and his past successes give us an idea what kind of dedicated person he truly is.
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The Tuskegee Airmen: They Fought Two Wars
Title: The Tuskegee Airmen: They Fought Two Wars
Character: Narrator
Released: February 28, 2003
Type: Movie
A documentary filmed at Moton Field in Tuskegee Alabama, home to the airmen of the 99th Fighter Squadron. They were the first African American fighter pilots trained to fly in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Nearly 1,000 pilots trained in Tuskegee and about half of those saw combat, destroying or damaging about 400 enemy aircraft, but found themselves fighting two wars-- the one against fascism abroad, and the one against racism at home.
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Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Title: Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Character: Himself
Released: February 16, 2003
Type: Movie
In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of local slave owners and their families, the eventual execution of 55 rebels and the retribution lynching of more than 200 innocent slaves. Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property examines how the story of Turner’s revolt has been interpreted throughout history and how it continues to raise new questions about the nature of terrorism and other forms of violent resistance to oppression. The film adopts an innovative structure by interspersing documentary footage and interviews with dramatizations of these different versions of Turner’s story. A unique collaboration between MacArthur Genius Award feature director Charles Burnett, acclaimed historian of slavery Kenneth S. Greenberg and Academy Award-nominated documentary producer Frank Christopher, Nat Turner is a compelling look at one of history’s most mysterious figures.
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Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Title: Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Released: February 10, 2003
Type: Movie
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors were transcribed and preserved by the Library of Congress. These first-person anecdotes, ranging from the brutal to the bittersweet, have been brought to vivid life in this unique HBO documentary special, featuring the on-camera voices of over a dozen top African-American actors.
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Deacons for Defense
Title: Deacons for Defense
Character: Reverend 'Rev' Gregory
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Inspired by a true story, this drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Despite the Act, the African-American citizens of Bogalusa are still treated like third-class citizens, their fundamental rights as human beings persistently trampled by the white power structure, in general, and the local branch of the KKK. The story follows the formation of local black men, particularly ex-war veterans who after the struggles become too overbearing organizes the group, "Deacons for defense", an all-black defense group dedicated to patrolling the black section of town and protecting its residents from the more violent aspects of "white backlash."
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Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
Title: Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
Character: Self
Released: June 14, 2002
Type: Movie
Panel discussion about the original Broadway production of Lorraine Hansbury's "A Raisin in the Sun."
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Bubba Ho-tep
Title: Bubba Ho-tep
Character: John F. "Jack" Kennedy
Released: June 9, 2002
Type: Movie
Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death," then missed his chance to switch back. He must team up with JFK and fight an ancient Egyptian mummy for the souls of their fellow residents.
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Title: Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
Character: Narrator
Released: June 1, 2002
Type: TV
A two-series set produced by the A&E network which explores the history of Christianity and its impact on the world from the year 0 to 2000.
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Feast of All Saints
Title: Feast of All Saints
Character: Jean-Jacques
Released: November 11, 2001
Type: Movie
Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression.
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Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
Title: Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
Character: Narrator
Released: June 11, 2001
Type: Movie
From the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning PBS series NEIGHBORHOODS: THE HIDDEN CITIES OF SAN FRANCISCO comes the remarkable story of San Francisco's Fillmore District. Remembered today mainly for its rock & roll auditorium, the Fillmore District is one of the great cautionary tales of American urban life. From the wholesale removal of Japanese Americans during World War II, to the jazz heyday of the 1950s, to the bulldozers of urban renewal, the Fillmore District has seen its share of drama.
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The Legend of the Candy Cane
Title: The Legend of the Candy Cane
Character: Julius (voice)
Released: June 1, 2001
Type: Movie
The night a mysterious stranger rode into the lonely prairie town of West Sage, no one realized their lives would never be the same.
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Here's to Life!
Title: Here's to Life!
Character: Duncan Cox
Released: September 18, 2000
Type: Movie
Owen is the head administrator of an old age home in Washington. One day, a resident discovers he is cheating on his taxes, and orders that Owen takes him and two others on a road trip to British Columbia. While there, they try to break him from his cynical, businessman mold by setting him up with a waitress, among other things.
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Dinosaur
Title: Dinosaur
Character: Yar (voice)
Released: May 19, 2000
Type: Movie
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
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Finding Buck McHenry
Title: Finding Buck McHenry
Character: Buck McHenry
Released: April 16, 2000
Type: Movie
When an 11 year old boy gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team.
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The Unfinished Journey
Title: The Unfinished Journey
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: December 31, 1999
Type: Movie
A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve
Title: Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve
Character: Caretaker
Released: December 14, 1999
Type: Movie
Enchanting holiday tale of a young runaway who has broken into an old movie palace, looking for shelter on a snow-filled Christmas Eve. Closed for decades, the building is filled with countless discarded artifacts from the past. The girl is discovered by the old caretaker, who uses the ghosts and spirits that inhabit this long-abandoned world to turn her life around.
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The Soul Collector
Title: The Soul Collector
Character: Mordecai
Released: October 24, 1999
Type: Movie
Zachariah, makes a few mistakes and it is decided that he is to live as a human being for thirty days. Mordecai is his supervisor. Rebecca's husband died and Zachariah the soul collector, or, the angel of the death helped him to make the transition between heaven and earth. There are some complications with Rebecca's farm and Zachariah helps her out.
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Title: Third Watch
Released: September 23, 1999
Type: TV
The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55th precinct during the 3pm to 11pm shift - the 'Third Watch'.
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The Secret Path
Title: The Secret Path
Character: Too Tall
Released: April 2, 1999
Type: Movie
14-year-old Jo Ann Foley lives in squalor in a rural Southern community during World War II. Abused by her bootlegging grandfather Hank, Jo Ann has, like her mother Marie, been forced into a life of prostitution. Periodically escaping her miserable existence, Jo Ann finds comfort, security, and genuine love with a poor but proud African American couple: Honey and Too Tall.
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Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Title: Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Character: Self
Released: February 24, 1999
Type: Movie
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic champion of the rights of the poor working man, the disfranchised and people of color. He led a life in the vanguard of many movements, achieved international acclaim for his music and suffered tremendous personal sacrifice. His story is one of the great dramas of the 20th century, spanning an international canvas of social upheaval and ideological controversy.
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A Vow to Cherish
Title: A Vow to Cherish
Character: Alexander Billman
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
John and Ellen have a picture-perfect life: while John runs a successful business, Ellen works as a schoolteacher, and they've raised two beautiful children. But that picture is shattered when Ellen is diagnosed with a devastating disease. The couple's relationship faces its hardest test yet, and before long, John's business starts to suffer and his eye begins to wander after he finds a lovely new jogging partner.
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Title: Christianity: The First 1000 Years
Character: Himself - Narrator
Released: November 29, 1998
Type: TV
The incredible story of the people who, despite persecution, grew Christianity from an obscure movement to one of the world's largest religions.
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Doctor Dolittle
Title: Doctor Dolittle
Character: Archer Dolittle
Released: June 26, 1998
Type: Movie
A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor's advice, unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down!
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Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Title: Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A documentary look at the confluence of the Red scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles on radio, television, and stage. It begins in Harlem, measures the impact of Paul Robeson and the campaign to bring him down, looks at the role of HUAC, J. Edgar Hoover and of journalists such as Ed Sullivan, and ends with a tribute to Canada Lee. Throughout are interviews with men and women who were there, including Dick Campbell of the Rose McLendon Players and Fredrick O'Neal of the American Negro Theatre. In the 1940s and 1950s, anti-Communism was one more tool to maintain Jim Crow and to keep down African-Americans.
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12 Angry Men
Title: 12 Angry Men
Character: Juror 2
Released: August 17, 1997
Type: Movie
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices.
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4 Little Girls
Title: 4 Little Girls
Character: Self - Actor and Playwright
Released: July 9, 1997
Type: Movie
On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the nation--and a defining moment in the history of the civil-rights movement. Spike Lee re-examines the full story of the bombing, including a revealing interview with former Alabama Governor George Wallace.
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Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers
Title: Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers
Character: Narrator
Released: June 23, 1997
Type: Movie
Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers celebrates the ground-breaking career of the first-ever African-American to join the major leagues, talented athlete Jackie Robinson. The video commemorates the 50th anniversary of Robinson's first major league game day. A tender tribute to the baseball legend, the program combines interviews with Robinson's family and friends, classic sports footage, newsreel clips, and black-and-white photographs from Robinson's life and stellar career.
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Miss Evers' Boys
Title: Miss Evers' Boys
Character: Mr. Evers
Released: February 22, 1997
Type: Movie
The true story of the US Government's 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed.
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Title: Thomas Jefferson
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 18, 1997
Type: TV
The complex life of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that "all men are created equal" yet owned slaves, is recounted by master filmmaker Ken Burns in this probing documentary. Covering Jefferson's diplomatic work in France, his two presidential terms, his retirement at Monticello and more.
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Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
Title: Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.
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I'm Not Rappaport
Title: I'm Not Rappaport
Character: Midge Carter
Released: December 24, 1996
Type: Movie
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.
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Get on the Bus
Title: Get on the Bus
Character: Jeremiah
Released: October 16, 1996
Type: Movie
Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a laid-off aircraft worker, a man whose at-risk son is handcuffed to him, a black Republican, a former gangsta, a Hollywood actor, a cop who is of mixed racial background, and a white bus driver. All make the trek discussing issues surrounding the march, including manhood, religion, politics, and race.
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Title: Promised Land
Character: Erasmus Jones
Released: September 17, 1996
Type: TV
Promised Land is an American drama series which aired on CBS from 1996 to 1999. It is a spin-off from another series, Touched by an Angel.
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Title: Promised Land
Released: September 17, 1996
Type: TV
Promised Land is an American drama series which aired on CBS from 1996 to 1999. It is a spin-off from another series, Touched by an Angel.
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Title: The West
Character: Self / John R. Gills (voice)
Released: September 15, 1996
Type: TV
The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: The West, is a documentary film about the American Old West. It was directed by Stephen Ives and the executive producer was Ken Burns. The film originally aired on PBS in September 1996.
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Title: The West
Character: Self
Released: September 15, 1996
Type: TV
The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: The West, is a documentary film about the American Old West. It was directed by Stephen Ives and the executive producer was Ken Burns. The film originally aired on PBS in September 1996.
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Title: JAG
Character: Terrence Minnerly
Released: September 23, 1995
Type: TV
Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth.
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Title: The Client
Character: Judge Harry Roosevelt
Released: September 17, 1995
Type: TV
The Client is an American television series that aired on CBS from September 18, 1995 to August 16, 1996. The series was based on the 1994 film The Client, itself adapted from the 1993 John Grisham novel also of the same name.
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The Android Affair
Title: The Android Affair
Character: Dr. Winston
Released: April 12, 1995
Type: Movie
Karen Garrett, a promising young doctor, is assigned to perform a difficult operation on Teach, an advanced android who has never "blanked" (had his memory erased.) She soon realizes that Teach is much more than an assignment, and is drawn to his desire for a very human life. When Karen takes Teach into the outside world, they soon discover that there is something far more mysterious and dangerous than a medical experiment planned for them.
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Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
Title: Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
Character: Uncle Phil
Released: March 20, 1995
Type: Movie
Ray investigates the murder of a judge.
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Title: Touched by an Angel
Character: Gabriel
Released: September 21, 1994
Type: TV
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.
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Title: Touched by an Angel
Character: Erasmus Jones
Released: September 21, 1994
Type: TV
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.
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Title: Baseball
Character: Various (voice)
Released: September 18, 1994
Type: TV
The history of the sport of baseball in America, told through archival photos, film footage, and the words of those who contributed to the game in each era. Writers, historians, players, baseball personnel, and fans review key events and the significance of the game in America's history.
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The Client
Title: The Client
Character: Harry Roosevelt
Released: July 20, 1994
Type: Movie
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.
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Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
Title: Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
Character: Uncle Phil
Released: May 13, 1994
Type: Movie
Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.
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Title: The Stand
Character: Judge Richard Farris
Released: May 8, 1994
Type: TV
After a deadly plague kills most of the world’s population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a maleficent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.
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The Stand
Title: The Stand
Character: Judge Richard Farris
Released: May 8, 1994
Type: Movie
After a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a malevolent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.
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Malcolm X: Make It Plain
Title: Malcolm X: Make It Plain
Character: Self
Released: January 26, 1994
Type: Movie
Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood, through his rise in the ranks of the Nation of Islam, to his 1965 assassination.
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Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World
Title: Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Join tennis greats John McEnroe and Billie Jean King and world leader Nelson Mandela as they pay homage to the life and work of Arthur Ashe, the sports legend who transcended his athletic gifts and grew to become one of the most inspirational celebrities to lend their name in the fight against racism and the race to find a cure for AIDS. Ashe developed the incurable illness after contracting HIV through blood transfusions.
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Grumpy Old Men
Title: Grumpy Old Men
Character: Chuck
Released: December 25, 1993
Type: Movie
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent hijinks.
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Cop and ½
Title: Cop and ½
Character: Detective in Squad Room
Released: April 2, 1993
Type: Movie
When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, a hardboiled cop is forced to take his new partner seriously as they race the clock to bring the bad guys to justice.
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Goin' Back to T-Town
Title: Goin' Back to T-Town
Character: Narrator
Released: March 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Goin’ Back to T-Town tells the story of Greenwood, an extraordinary Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that prospered during the 1920s and 30s despite rampant and hostile segregation. Torn apart in 1921 by one of the worst racially-motivated massacres in the nation’s history, the neighborhood rose from the ashes, and by 1936 boasted the largest concentration of Black-owned businesses in the U.S., known as “Black Wall Street.” Ironically, it could not survive the progressive policies of integration and urban renewal of the 1960s. Told through the memories of those who lived through the events, the film is a bittersweet celebration of small-town life and the resilience of a community’s spirit.
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Title: Alex Haley's Queen
Character: Parson Dick
Released: February 14, 1993
Type: TV
Queen is the story about Easter, the illegitimate daughter of James Jackson, III and her lifelong affair with plantation owner Tim Daly, which would result in the birth of Queen. Queen's story revolves around her early years as a slave who yearns to know who her father is, and her condition as a fair skin mixed race woman who spends her life trying to figure out where exactly she fits in.
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The Ernest Green Story
Title: The Ernest Green Story
Character: Grandfather
Released: January 17, 1993
Type: Movie
Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.
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Lincoln
Title: Lincoln
Character: Frederick Douglas (voice)
Released: December 26, 1992
Type: Movie
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
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Malcolm X
Title: Malcolm X
Character: Eulogy Performer (voice)
Released: November 18, 1992
Type: Movie
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
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Gladiator
Title: Gladiator
Character: Noah
Released: March 6, 1992
Type: Movie
Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight he is noticed and quickly falls into the world of illegal underground boxing - where punches can kill.
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Title: Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Character: Self
Released: October 28, 1991
Type: Movie
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
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Jungle Fever
Title: Jungle Fever
Character: Reverend Purify
Released: June 7, 1991
Type: Movie
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
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Title: Evening Shade
Character: Ponder Blue
Released: September 21, 1990
Type: TV
Evening Shade is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS from 1990 to 1994. The series stars Burt Reynolds as Wood Newton, an ex-professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers, who returns to rural Evening Shade, Arkansas to coach a high school football team with a long losing streak. Reynolds personally requested to use the Steelers as his former team because he is a fan. The general theme of the show is the appeal of small town life. Episodes ended with a closing narration by Ossie Davis summing up the events of the episode, always closing with "... in a place called Evening Shade." The show's final episode saw the guest appearances of Willie Nelson and Buzz Aldrin as escaped convicts on the run from authorities, the final scene being a spectacular shoot-out reminiscent of the final scene of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The opening segment included clips from around Arkansas, including the famous McClard's Bar-be-que, which is situated on Albert Pike Blvd. and South Patterson St. in Hot Springs National Park.
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Joe Versus the Volcano
Title: Joe Versus the Volcano
Character: Marshall
Released: March 9, 1990
Type: Movie
Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.
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The Red Shoes
Title: The Red Shoes
Released: February 7, 1990
Type: Movie
In this animated contemporary interpretation of a Hans Christian Andersen morality tale, a pair of magic slippers help two young African-American girls learn the value of friendship after they are divided by selfishness and jealousy.
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Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Title: Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Character: Self
Released: November 3, 1989
Type: Movie
The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
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Do the Right Thing
Title: Do the Right Thing
Character: Da Mayor
Released: June 14, 1989
Type: Movie
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
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Title: B.L. Stryker
Released: February 13, 1989
Type: TV
B.L. Stryker is an American detective drama that aired on ABC from February 13, 1989 to May 5, 1990 as part of the ABC Mystery Movie along with Gideon Oliver, Columbo and Kojak. The series was executive produced by Tom Selleck.
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School Daze
Title: School Daze
Character: Coach Odom
Released: February 12, 1988
Type: Movie
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.
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Title: American Masters
Character: Self
Released: June 23, 1986
Type: TV
American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and others who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.
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Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories
Title: Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories
Character: Anansi the Spider (Sleepytime Songs and Stories) (voice)
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Bedtime Stories & Songs is a 1986 Sesame Street direct-to-video compilation, released on VHS as part of the My Sesame Street Home Video label. The video was re-released with different segments under the new title of Sleepytime Songs & Stories in 1996, and on DVD in 2005. The framing story involves Big Bird speaking to the audience, offering advice on the best ways to fall asleep. A Honker and her baby stop by, and Telly arrives for a sleepover with heaps of cuddly toys that he couldn't sleep without. Buster the Horse demonstrates how to fall asleep standing up and Susan comments from her apartment window.
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Avenging Angel
Title: Avenging Angel
Character: Capt. Harry Moradian
Released: January 11, 1985
Type: Movie
Molly Stewart, now a law student at UCLA, is determined to leave her prostitute past behind. After learning that the detective who helped save her life has been murdered, she quickly finds herself pitted against an underworld of mob figures who might be more than she's bargained for...
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Tyler Texas Black Film Collection
Title: Tyler Texas Black Film Collection
Character: Himself
Released: January 8, 1985
Type: Movie
"Tyler Texas Black Film Collection" (1985) is a promotional film hosted by Ossie Davis.
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Harry and Son
Title: Harry and Son
Character: Raymond
Released: March 2, 1984
Type: Movie
Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard's lackadaisical lifestyle and has a strained relationship with his daughter Nina as he does not approve of her husband. When Harry is fired from his job, his life changes drastically as he is made to focus on the relationships around him.
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Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood
Title: Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood
Character: Narrator
Released: February 7, 1984
Type: Movie
A documentary, combining archival material and live interviews with Marcus Garvey, Jr., and others, which introduces the life and work of the pioneer Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey.
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The House of God
Title: The House of God
Character: Dr. Sanders
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.
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Title: Reading Rainbow
Character: Himself - Narrator (voice)
Released: June 6, 1983
Type: TV
Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which is explored through a number of segments or stories.
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Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy
Title: Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Character: Chuffy Russell
Released: May 31, 1981
Type: Movie
The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball, to his emergence at age 43 in the major leagues with the Cleveland Indians the year after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier.
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Death of a Prophet
Title: Death of a Prophet
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
After breaking ties with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X became a man marked for death...and it was just a matter of time before his enemies closed in. Despite death threats and intimidation, Malcolm marched on - continuing to spread the word of equality and brotherhood right up until the moment of his brutal and untimely assassination. Highlighted by newsreel footage and interviews, this is the story of the last twenty-four hours of Malcolm X. Featuring the music of jazz percussionist Max Roach.
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All God's Children
Title: All God's Children
Character: Blaine Whitfield
Released: April 28, 1980
Type: Movie
Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career. The friendship between two families -- one white, one black -- and their sons, who are buddies, provides the microcosm of this major social issue that has been argued for several decades.
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Freedom Road
Title: Freedom Road
Character: Narrator
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: Movie
Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.
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Hot Stuff
Title: Hot Stuff
Character: Captain John Geiberger
Released: August 10, 1979
Type: Movie
When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their targets. They take over a pawn shop where thieves go to unload their merchandise. They record them as they bring stuff in and get them to tell them where they got it. Eventually they're threatened by the mob.
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Title: Roots: The Next Generations
Character: Dad Jones
Released: February 18, 1979
Type: TV
Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family of Alex Haley and their life in Henning, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, USA. This sequel to the 1977 miniseries is based on the last seven chapters of Haley's novel entitled Roots: The Saga of an American Family plus additional material by Haley. Roots: The Next Generations was produced with a budget of $16.6 million, nearly three times as large as that of the original.
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Freedom Man
Title: Freedom Man
Character: Benjamin Banneker
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
The story of Benjamin Banneker, the early American patriot whose achievements rival those of Benjamin Franklin!! Risking his life, working with the Underground Railroad to elude vicious slave catchers!
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Title: The Kennedy Center Honors
Character: Self
Released: December 28, 1978
Type: TV
The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture.
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Title: King
Character: Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
Released: February 12, 1978
Type: TV
The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister in the South of the 1950s until his assassination in Memphis in 1968.
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Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
Title: Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
Character: Dr. Fredericks
Released: September 12, 1977
Type: Movie
A young ghetto kid despairs of ever getting out of that environment and making something of himself, until one day he gets a job as an assistant in a veterinarian's office, and working with all the animals begins to affect his outlook on life.
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The Tenth Level
Title: The Tenth Level
Character: Reed
Released: August 26, 1976
Type: Movie
Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis, were willing to "just follow orders" and do horrible things to others. Professor Stephen Turner leads students to believe that they are applying increasingly painful electric shocks to other subjects when they fail to perform a task correctly, and is alarmed to see how much pain the students can be convinced to inflict "in the name of science."
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Countdown at Kusini
Title: Countdown at Kusini
Character: Ernest Motapo
Released: April 16, 1976
Type: Movie
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
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Let's Do It Again
Title: Let's Do It Again
Character: Elder Johnson
Released: October 11, 1975
Type: Movie
Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match.
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Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Title: Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Character: Narrator
Released: April 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
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Malcolm X
Title: Malcolm X
Character: Eulogy (voice)
Released: May 24, 1972
Type: Movie
James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.
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The Sheriff
Title: The Sheriff
Character: James Lucas
Released: March 30, 1971
Type: Movie
A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student.
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Title: Night Gallery
Character: Osmund Portifoy
Released: December 16, 1970
Type: TV
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
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Kongi's Harvest
Title: Kongi's Harvest
Character: Narrator
Released: May 1, 1970
Type: Movie
An African dictator (Wole Soyinka) needs to convince the former king (Rashidi Onikoyi) to legitimize his reign by offering him the ceremonial jam at the upcoming harvest festival.
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Night Gallery
Title: Night Gallery
Character: Osmond Portifoy
Released: November 8, 1969
Type: Movie
This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: "The Cemetery," directed by Boris Sagal; "Eyes," directed by Steven Spielberg; and "The Escape Route," directed by Barry Shear. This film also served as a backdoor pilot for the TV series of the same name, which premiered on December 16, 1970.
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Slaves
Title: Slaves
Character: Luke
Released: July 2, 1969
Type: Movie
A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.
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Sam Whiskey
Title: Sam Whiskey
Character: Jed Hooker
Released: April 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Sam Whiskey is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura's dead husband stole recently, from a sunken ship and secretly bring them back to the mint before they are missed. But how shall he manage to get several hundred pounds of gold into the mint without anyone noticing?
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Teacher, Teacher
Title: Teacher, Teacher
Character: Charles Carter
Released: February 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Hamilton Cade is an alcoholic teacher striving to put his life back together. He accepts a job tutoring an "exceptional child" only to find that young Freddie is mentally retarded (an outstanding performance by retarded actor Billy Schulman). A black man who works for Freddie's father also becomes interested in teaching the child, and becomes a second role model for him.
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The Fall
Title: The Fall
Released: January 15, 1969
Type: Movie
"The Fall" depicts certain scenes in New York City between October 1967 and March 1968, shot by the independent filmmaker, Peter Whitehead. It is a very personal documentary, and Whitehead appears in a large number of scenes, and we hear his lengthy ruminations on the state of the United States and the war in Vietnam.
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Title: Hawaii Five-O
Character: Ramon Borelle
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
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Title: The Name of the Game
Character: Kubani
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
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The Scalphunters
Title: The Scalphunters
Character: Joseph Lee
Released: February 29, 1968
Type: Movie
Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.
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Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
Title: Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
Character: Narrator
Released: January 2, 1968
Type: Movie
The Black middle class, torn between white goals and Black needs, are examined by producers William Greaves and William Branch in a 90-minute NET Journal documentary.
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The Outsider
Title: The Outsider
Character: Lt. Wagner
Released: November 21, 1967
Type: Movie
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies start dropping and the savvy P.I. is the primary suspect in an attractive woman's death. This NBC TV movie served as a pilot for the later series.
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Black Liberation
Title: Black Liberation
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Produced in collaboration with Malcolm X and narrated by Ossie Davis, this call to arms layers revolutionary text from multiple sources with gritty, shot-on-the-streets-of-New York footage of African-American struggle. A forgotten masterpiece from radical filmmaker, theorist and founder of Cinéma Éngagé, Édouard de Laurot.
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A Man Called Adam
Title: A Man Called Adam
Character: Nelson Davis
Released: March 16, 1966
Type: Movie
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
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Title: Run for Your Life
Character: Sgt. Dave Corbett
Released: September 13, 1965
Type: TV
Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.
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Title: Run for Your Life
Character: Dave Corbett
Released: September 13, 1965
Type: TV
Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.
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Title: Run for Your Life
Character: Frankie Morton
Released: September 13, 1965
Type: TV
Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.
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The Sun... the Sand... the Hill
Title: The Sun... the Sand... the Hill
Character: Jason King (archival footage)
Released: July 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Promotional film depicting the production and Cannes premiere of the Sidney Lumet film "The Hill."
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The Sun... the Sand... the Hill
Title: The Sun... the Sand... the Hill
Character: Jason King (archive footage)
Released: July 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Promotional film depicting the production and Cannes premiere of the Sidney Lumet film "The Hill."
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The Hill
Title: The Hill
Character: Jacko King
Released: June 17, 1965
Type: Movie
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
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Shock Treatment
Title: Shock Treatment
Character: Capshaw
Released: July 22, 1964
Type: Movie
A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot.
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The Cardinal
Title: The Cardinal
Character: Father Gillis
Released: December 12, 1963
Type: Movie
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
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Title: The Great Adventure
Character: John Ross
Released: September 27, 1963
Type: TV
The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van Heflin, and featuring theme music by Richard Rodgers, presented a weekly one-hour dramatization of the lives of famous Americans and important historical events in American History.
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Title: The Fugitive
Character: Lt. Johnny Gaines
Released: September 17, 1963
Type: TV
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
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Gone Are the Days!
Title: Gone Are the Days!
Character: Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson
Released: August 9, 1963
Type: Movie
A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cousin in order to secure the family inheritance. To aid in the comic complications that follow are his family members Missy and Gitlow, and the plantation owners endearing (but ineffectual) son Charlie.
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Hands of Inge
Title: Hands of Inge
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
The work of sculptor Inge Hardison is the subject of this beautiful short portrait of an artist. Hardison is perhaps best known for "Negro Giants in History," her important series of busts made during the early 1960s. Hands of Inge was edited by Hortense "Tee" Beveridge, a pioneer in her field who worked in the commercial industry and on independent, non-commercial films such as Amiri Baraka's 1968 film "The New-Ark". In the mid-1950s Beveridge became the first Black woman to gain admission to Local 771, the motion picture editors union.
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Title: The Defenders
Character: Assistant District Attorney
Released: September 16, 1961
Type: TV
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
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Title: The Defenders
Character: Nixie
Released: September 16, 1961
Type: TV
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
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Title: The Defenders
Character: Officer Bond
Released: September 16, 1961
Type: TV
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
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Title: The Defenders
Character: District Attorney
Released: September 16, 1961
Type: TV
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
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Title: The Defenders
Character: District Attorney Daniel Jackson
Released: September 16, 1961
Type: TV
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
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John Brown's Raid
Title: John Brown's Raid
Released: October 25, 1960
Type: Movie
White abolitionist John Brown and twenty of his men attempt to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Based on true events.
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Title: Bonanza
Character: Sam Davis
Released: September 12, 1959
Type: TV
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Charles Carter
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Fourteen Hours
Title: Fourteen Hours
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.
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No Way Out
Title: No Way Out
Character: John Brooks (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1950
Type: Movie
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.
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Title: Kraft Television Theatre
Character: The Emperor Jones
Released: May 7, 1947
Type: TV
Kraft Television Theatre is an American drama/anthology television series