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On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyones hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence

Miami police fence stolen goods at a storefront sting operation equipped with a two way mirror

Two Harlem cops investigate a robbery, believing that a reverend has staged it in order to steal the money hes collected for a local fundraiser

A seemingly haunted painting drives a greedy man insane A rich blind woman gets a new pair of eyes that allow her to see for only one brief ironic moment An idyllic painting gives a Nazi war criminal in hiding some fleeting com

Twelve men must decide the fate of one when one juror objects to the jurys decision

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life

A widow hires an ex gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen by her dead husband

A doctor discovers that he can communicate with animals

In a Louisiana town in 1964, local African Americans band together to protect themselves from violence from the KKK as well as local police Based on actual events

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them

Two old men a white former radical, and a black retired janitor strike up an unusual and funny friendship on a park bench in New York, where they deal with family, drug dealers, and the pitfalls of age

A profile of the African American actress Beah Richards, who was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Guess Whos Coming to Dinner

An aspiring dancer and her wicked sisters resent their mothers love for a foster daughter

An African dictator Wole Soyinka seeks advice from the king Rashidi Onikoyi he ousted on modernizing his tribal nation

Four Vietnam Vets go to war against the drug dealers and pimps of Harlem

When residents of their nursing home start dying of dubious causes, an aged Elvis and an African American senior who claims to be President John F Kennedy discover that the perpetrator is an Egyptian mummy with murderous intent

A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student

A business executives life is turned upside down when his wife contracts a debilitating disease

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sanctuary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home

Molly, former prostitute, has managed to leave her street life with help from Lt Andrews She studies law and leads a normal life When Andrews is killed by a brutal gang, she returns to the streets as Angel to find his killers

Friends and family of a married Black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources