Brock Peters Movies

In this alleged retelling of Lincoln's early life, the President-to-be is rescued by Henry, a Black man and freed slave who has lost his papers....

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar...

A military school graduation ceremony is interrupted when a student's dope-smuggling father is killed in the gym.

A writer reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection after a safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, after Earnest Hemingway's short...

An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.

This promotional short film for "Soylent Green" (1973) begins by showing clips of films that depicted what the future might be like beyond Earth. The...

Jack Johnson is a 1970 documentary film directed by Jim Jacobs about the boxer Jack Johnson.

A man combs Los Angeles for his missing daughter, and discovers she belongs to a gang dealing in crack.

The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on a homemade raft, and their encounter with the...

An independent filmmaker has left his profession and keeps it a secret. Years later, his niece finds his old films in a locked trunk and discovers...

An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is...

In 1956, BLOOMER GIRL was presented in a live television production starring the magnificent Barbara Cook, whose star was then on the rise, with...

Mahalia Jackson was the greatest gospel singer in the world. Shortly before her death in 1972, she embarked on a triumphant European tour, and this...

A Confederate officer kidnaps for a $1,000,000 ransom five well-to-do children from a Yankee boarding school; a wounded black Union soldier helps...

The true story of Jim Brock, coach of the nationally-ranked Arizona State Sun Devil Baseball Team and how a man who has known the pressure of...

A documentary about the making of "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Slick amoral con man Mickey is out to fleece attractive women. But three of them join forces to bring him to justice.