Bill Duke Movies

A black family leaves the ghetto of Detroit to look for a better life in Los Angeles.

From 1979 to 1981, 29 African-American males, mostly children, were either missing or found murdered in metro Atlanta. The cases plagued the city...

Documentary exploring the deep-seated biases and attitudes about skin color---particularly dark-skinned women, outside of and within the Black...

From the creator and director of the critically acclaimed documentary Dark Girls, award-winning filmmaker Bill Duke continues the conversation on...

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like...

Amaryllis Campos is a young, classically trained Puerto Rican ballerina, who dreams of leaving her impoverished home in Puerto Rico to pursue fame...

The most comprehensive retrospective of the '80s action film genre ever made.

A behind-the-scenes look at the 1987 sci-fi/action film that has since become one of the modern classics, about a team of special forces soldiers who...

Billy Ray Michaels, diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorders, grows from an adventurous youth to him ending up in court for a crime in which he...

A nostalgic journey through ’80s Sci-Fi-films, exploring their impact and relevance today, told by the artists who made them and by those who...

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...

A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.

An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his...

A woman who wishes to become a priest hires a lawyer to file suit against the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

Made especially for the HBO cable network, this well-wrought feature is comprised of three short stories by three noted black American authors, each...

Set in a world not unlike mid-20th century America, The Vandal centers on Harold, whose tormented search for peace from traumatic loss results in an...

'Foolish' Waise is a talented comedian with a hard-edge trying to make it in the comedy clubs in LA while his brother is a hard-nosed gangster trying...

In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story...

Documentary focusing on star Arnold Schwarzenegger. Produced for the “Predator” DVD.

Recounts the extraordinary segregation-era partnership between two surgeons--one black and one white--who defied the medical establishment and...