Movies: Gertrude Jeannette

  • 1971
    Shaft

    Shaft (1971)

    Shaft

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    Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter....

    Shaft
  • 1998
    Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

    Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist (1998)

    Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

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    A documentary look at the confluence of the Red scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles on radio, television, and stage. It begins in Harlem, measures the impact of Paul Robeson...

    Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
  • 1969
    To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words

    To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words (1969)

    To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words

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    Excerpts from the 1969 Off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater of To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry, adapted by Robert Nemiroff, Hansberry's widower, and directed by Gene Frankel....

    To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words
  • 1964
    Nothing But a Man

    Nothing But a Man (1964)

    Nothing But a Man

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    A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America....

    Nothing But a Man
  • 1972
    The Legend of Nigger Charley

    The Legend of Nigger Charley (1972)

    The Legend of Nigger Charley

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    A trio of runaway slaves evade authorities in the Old West....

    The Legend of Nigger Charley
  • 1972
    Black Girl

    Black Girl (1972)

    Black Girl

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

    Black Girl