Morgan Freeman
Formats
Description
"This landmark four-part series documents the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states, and through the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. The series examines the integral role slavery played in shaping the new country's development, challenging the long-held notion that it was exclusively a Southern enterprise. Through the remarkable stories of individual slaves, SLAVERY AND THE...
12) 10 Items or Less
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
An actor (Freeman) prepping for an upcoming role meets a quirky grocery clerk (Vega), and the pair hit the road to show one another their respective worlds.
13) Bopha!
Pub. Date
1993.
Description
Micah Mangena is sitting on a powder keg and doesn’t know it. He’s a sergeant in South Africa’s police force, a supporter of the powers that be. But the strife tearing at the fabric of 1980 South Africa is about to rip Micah’s own world apart.
14) Gone Baby Gone
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
The disappearance of a little girl in a gritty Boston neighborhood pairs two private detectives with the police in this riveting, multi-layered mystery.
15) Lucy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
An action-thriller that tracks a woman accidentally caught in a dark deal who turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
16) Invictus
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
18) Unforgiven
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Bill Munny, a retired, once ruthless killer-turned-hog farmer, is flat broke. A widower with two young children to tend to, he feels he has no choice but to accept one last bounty hunter mission to find and kill two young gunslingers who brutalized and cut up the face of a local prostitute. Bill teams up with his old partner Ned and the cocky greenhorn, The Schofield Kid. The three men soon find out this bounty has many more obstacles to overcome...
19) Amistad
Pub. Date
1997.
Description
The movie chronicles the incredible journey of a group of enslaved Africans who overtake their captor's ship and attempt to return to their beloved homeland.
20) Desert Blue
Pub. Date
1999.
Description
Starring Kate Hudson, Christina Ricci and Casey Affleck, DESERT BLUE is a comedy-drama following an academic obsessed with "roadside attractions" and his TV-star daughter as they finally discover the world's largest ice cream cone -- the centerpiece for an old gold-rush town struggling to stay on the map. They end up staying longer than expected because of an accident that spilled an unknown cola ingredient all over the highway. They spend the next...