Movies: Angela Bassett

  • 1999
    Our Friend, Martin

    Our Friend, Martin (1999)

    Our Friend, Martin

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    Two teens are sent back in time to meet Martin Luther King Jr. at several points during his life....

    Our Friend, Martin
  • 1990
    Challenger

    Challenger (1990)

    Challenger

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    A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its explosion upon takeoff. The center point of the film is the safety inspections and arguments surround...

    Challenger
  • 2002
    The Rosa Parks Story

    The Rosa Parks Story (2002)

    The Rosa Parks Story

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    A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama....

    The Rosa Parks Story
  • 2025
    Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special

    Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special (2025)

    Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special

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    10 News First takes you behind the scenes on the making of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. Angela Bishop chats with Tom Cruise for all the inside info....

    Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special
  • 1991
    One Special Victory

    One Special Victory (1991)

    One Special Victory

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    A fact-based story, John Larroquette plays a hotshot executive that ends up in court over a certain charge. He is sentenced to community service. He is assigned to coach a basketball team of mentally handicapped citizens. At first, he is reluctant an...

    One Special Victory
  • 2008
    Gospel Hill

    Gospel Hill (2008)

    Gospel Hill

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    Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of a slain civil rights activist. Jack Herrod (Tom Bower) is the former sheriff who never got to the bottom of...

    Gospel Hill
  • 2003
    Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

    Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (2003)

    Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

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    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 t...

    Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
  • 2018
    The Flood

    The Flood (2018)

    The Flood

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    Surrounded by the unforgiving Kalahari Desert, the Okavango Delta is a lush, vibrant oasis that pulses with life each year as the great flood rejuvenates the land with the return of water. Witness how incredible animals – like leopards, elephants, li...

    The Flood
  • 1991
    Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage

    Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage (1991)

    Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage

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    This women in prison drama tells us a story about the mother of three children, who was falsely accused for a crime she did not commit (drug dealing), arrested and locked up behind bars....

    Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage
  • 2004
    The Lazarus Child

    The Lazarus Child (2004)

    The Lazarus Child

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    A desperate couple uses a doctor's controversial method to revive their comatose daughter....

    The Lazarus Child
  • 2009
    Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy

    Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy (2009)

    Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy

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    Directors Robert Townsend and Quincy Newell offer this comprehensive and hilarious examination of the history, evolution and cultural significance of African American comedy in America, from the earliest minstrel shows to the latest HBO special. Feat...

    Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
  • 1985
    Doubletake

    Doubletake (1985)

    Doubletake

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    Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives investigating. Meanwhile, Janek is trying to find out why an old friend and colleague committed suicide, whic...

    Doubletake
  • 1991
    Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor

    Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor (1991)

    Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor

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    A fire breaks out on the 12th floor of the First Interstate Tower building in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Paul and Susan are working late on the 37th floor, along with cleaning staff, security, and building engineers, some of whom are installing sprinkle...

    Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor
  • 2014
    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee (2014)

    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

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    In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love, conscious art, and undying activism....

    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
  • 2006
    Time Bomb

    Time Bomb (2006)

    Time Bomb

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    The Department of Homeland Security receives a threat that a bomb has been set to explode during a sports event in Washington, D.C....

    Time Bomb
  • 2024
    Butterfly in the Sky

    Butterfly in the Sky (2024)

    Butterfly in the Sky

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    Two seconds into the bubbling synth sounds of its theme song will have a child of the 1980s or ‘90s exclaiming “Reading Rainbow!” Such is the beloved and ubiquitous nature of the classic children’s literary television show that introduced millions of...

    Butterfly in the Sky
  • 2020
    Between the World and Me

    Between the World and Me (2020)

    Between the World and Me

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    Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special combines elements of that production - including powerful readings from Coates’ book - with documentary footage from the act...

    Between the World and Me
  • 2002
    Sunshine State

    Sunshine State (2002)

    Sunshine State

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    A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development....

    Sunshine State
  • 2024
    Disney Legends Awards Ceremony

    Disney Legends Awards Ceremony (2024)

    Disney Legends Awards Ceremony

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    Since 1987, the Disney Legends Awards program has honored individuals for the significant impact they've had on the Disney legacy. See the 2024 honorees become Disney Legends....

    Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
  • 2017
    August 28: A Day in the Life of a People

    August 28: A Day in the Life of a People (2017)

    August 28: A Day in the Life of a People

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    Documentary film on events that happened on August 28th in African-American history, shown at the Smithsonian African-American History Museum....

    August 28: A Day in the Life of a People