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 of the making of a…

Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato’s Retreat.

The struggle between a father and son at odds over the youths career choice. The 18 years old James Pfeiffer quits college and decides to become a fisherman like his…

Wattstax is the 1973 documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage from the concert with…

The story follows what happens when a child psychologist surprises his girlfriend by showing up at her political family’s annual get-together at their Sag Harbor vacation home only to find…

A Jewish blaxploitation hero saves Hanukkah from the clutches of Santa Claus’s evil son.

In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.

Feature-length documentary on renegade filmmaker, novelist, musician and theater impresario, Melvin Van Peebles.

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from “the man” with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned…

A maverick skydiver and a former KGB agent team up to stop the Russian mafia from stealing gold.