Howard Rollins Movies

  • 1981
    Ragtime

    Ragtime

    Ragtime

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    A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nos...

    Ragtime
  • 1984
    A Soldier's Story

    A Soldier's Story

    A Soldier's Story

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    In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also...

    A Soldier's Story
  • 1994
    The Legacy of Malthus

    The Legacy of Malthus

    The Legacy of Malthus

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    Discusses Malthus's theories of population and the causes of poverty. As film contrasts the 19th century poor in Scotland with today's poor in India,...

    The Legacy of Malthus
  • 1982
    The Neighborhood

    The Neighborhood

    The Neighborhood

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    A neighborhood in Brooklyn reacts to the first black families moving into the community.

    The Neighborhood
  • 1997
    Drunks

    Drunks

    Drunks

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    At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first...

    Drunks
  • 2004
    Remembering Ragtime

    Remembering Ragtime

    Remembering Ragtime

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    Memories from the making of the classic Milos Forman film "Ragtime".

    Remembering Ragtime
  • 1986
    The Children of Times Square

    The Children of Times Square

    The Children of Times Square

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    An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug deale...

    The Children of Times Square
  • 1979
    My Old Man

    My Old Man

    My Old Man

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    An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter a horse to salvage their relationship. When Frank is h...

    My Old Man
  • 1983
    For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

    For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

    For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

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    This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the...

    For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
  • 1982
    The Member of the Wedding

    The Member of the Wedding

    The Member of the Wedding

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    12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams dreams of going away with her brother and his bride-to-be on their upcoming honeymoon. [Taped live in performance at...

    The Member of the Wedding
  • 1984
    The House of Dies Drear

    The House of Dies Drear

    The House of Dies Drear

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    A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle run...

    The House of Dies Drear
  • 1986
    The Boy King

    The Boy King

    The Boy King

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    Focuses on young Martin Luther King Jr.'s early encounters with prejudice and how the love and courage of his family moved him to speak out against se...

    The Boy King
  • 1996
    Harambee!

    Harambee!

    Harambee!

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    During a Kwanzaa celebration, a recovering drug addict who now counsels drug users inspires the residents of a Brooklyn housing project to apply the p...

    Harambee!
  • 1990
    On the Block

    On the Block

    On the Block

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    A stripper and a vice squad lieutenant become romantically involved in this contemporary drama set in the adult entertainment zone in 1980s Baltimore,...

    On the Block
  • 1981
    Thornwell

    Thornwell

    Thornwell

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    The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to force him to confess to stealing secret documents...

    Thornwell
  • 1984
    A Doctor's Story

    A Doctor's Story

    A Doctor's Story

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    A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.

    A Doctor's Story
  • 1992
    With Murder in Mind

    With Murder in Mind

    With Murder in Mind

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    A real estate agent is shot while trying to sell a rural farm and tries to bring the shooter to justice.

    With Murder in Mind
  • 1986
    Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI

    Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI

    Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI

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    A police officer is called by F.B.I. to infiltrate into gang of arms smugglers.

    Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
  • 1984
    He's Fired, She's Hired

    He's Fired, She's Hired

    He's Fired, She's Hired

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    Advertising executive, Alex Grier, is fired and is unable to find another position, being over-qualified. His wife, Annabelle, with no experience, is...

    He's Fired, She's Hired
  • 1978
    The Trial of the Moke

    The Trial of the Moke

    The Trial of the Moke

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    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 fell...

    The Trial of the Moke