Movies: Alfre Woodard

  • 1984
    The Killing Floor

    The Killing Floor (1984)

    The Killing Floor

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    During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement....

    The Killing Floor
  • 1996
    A Step Toward Tomorrow

    A Step Toward Tomorrow (1996)

    A Step Toward Tomorrow

    3.71996HD

    A divorcee moves her family cross-country to take her paralyzed son to a pioneer neurosurgeon....

    A Step Toward Tomorrow
  • 1997
    Follow Me Home

    Follow Me Home (1997)

    Follow Me Home

    3.51997HD

    Three muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted cousin of the Chicano muralist set off on a road trip with the intent of painting their images on the White House. Along the way they meet a mysterious Black w...

    Follow Me Home
  • 1986
    Unnatural Causes

    Unnatural Causes (1986)

    Unnatural Causes

    6.81986HD

    Frank Coleman is a Vietnam veteran dying from cancer brought on by exposure to the defoliant chemical Agent Orange which he turns to Maude DeVictor, a Veterans Administration benefits counselor who teams up with Coleman to fight a lopsided batted aga...

    Unnatural Causes
  • 1969
    Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”

    Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball” (1969)

    Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”

    01969HD

    Documentary on the making of the film “Love & Basketball” produced by the Criterion Collection in 2021...

    Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”
  • 2008
    Medal of Honor

    Medal of Honor (2008)

    Medal of Honor

    6.52008HD

    The story of the Medal of Honor - the highest U.S. award for valor in combat - is told through personal accounts of bravery and daring...

    Medal of Honor
  • 2019
    No Small Matter

    No Small Matter (2019)

    No Small Matter

    02019HD

    A look at the issue of high-quality early care and education in America, from home to childcare to preschool; the tragic cost of getting it wrong; and the huge payoff - for our kids, our families and our country - of getting it right....

    No Small Matter
  • 1999
    The Underground Railroad

    The Underground Railroad (1999)

    The Underground Railroad

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    The Underground Railroad was not really a railroad, nor was it always underground. It was an informal network of people and hiding places that helped slaves escape the American South. It extended from the South into the northern states, Canada, the w...

    The Underground Railroad
  • 1978
    The Trial of the Moke

    The Trial of the Moke (1978)

    The Trial of the Moke

    5.51978HD

    Henry Flipper is the first black West Point graduate. Assigned to serve at Fort Davis in Texas, Flipper becomes the object of a conspiracy by his fellow cadets to rid the base of its only black graduate....

    The Trial of the Moke
  • 2000
    Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks

    Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks (2000)

    Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks

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    An intimate look at the life and career of Gordon Parks a true Renaissance man who has excelled as a photographer, novelist, journalist, poet, musician and filmmaker....

    Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
  • 1982
    Precious Blood

    Precious Blood (1982)

    Precious Blood

    81982HD

    A one act play where a woman and a man share their life stories, till they inter stitch and conflict with each other....

    Precious Blood
  • 2025
    The Inquisitor

    The Inquisitor (2025)

    The Inquisitor

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    In 1972, Congresswoman Barbara Jordan became the first Southern Black woman to join Congress, one of many firsts in her career as a trailblazing political leader. Looking at her life both in and out of the limelight, this insightful documentary explo...

    The Inquisitor
  • 2021
    Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

    Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color (2021)

    Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

    102021HD

    Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the first Black woman to mount a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1972), and the first Black woman to have her paintings exhibited in...

    Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
  • 2008
    Henry Box Brown

    Henry Box Brown (2008)

    Henry Box Brown

    02008HD

    In a magical take on a true story, a slave mails himself from a plantation in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia in 1848....

    Henry Box Brown