Bill Duke Movies

Made especially for the HBO cable network, this well-wrought feature is comprised of three short stories by three noted black American authors, each...

A black family leaves the ghetto of Detroit to look for a better life in Los Angeles.

In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story...

A troubled ex-con joins the colorful crew of an old movie theater and begins to rebuild his life, only to find his faith in God tested when he learns...

A police officer is called by F.B.I. to infiltrate into gang of arms smugglers.

Fictional meeting between Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X in Harlem in the early '60's.

A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.

A look at the development of film making and its contribution to the social and political times form the perspective of Black film makers.

When a strange werewolf virus threatens to decimate first New York and then the world, a rogue general uses the disease to create an army of...