Shades of Black

When a young girl and her dying mother are joined by a black male cook who comes to live with them, little do they know that their lives are about to change forever.

A racist prison guard has an affair with a Black woman after her husband, who was sentenced to capital punishment, dies.","large":"Hank, an embittered racist prison guard working on death row, begins an unlikely, emotionally charged sexual relationship with Leticia, a Black woman and wife of a man sentenced to death. The affair begins just after Hank oversees the capital punishment of Leticia's hu

The lives of a gifted athlete (Wesley Jonathan) and his best friend (Anthony Mackie) change when they take a fateful trip to Los Angeles.","large":"The lives of a gifted athlete (Wesley Jonathan) and his best friend (Anthony Mackie) change when they take a fateful trip to Los Angeles. The young hopefuls must use every skill at their command to topple the reigning streetball champions from their th

A teenager (Sam Jones III) must elude thugs who believe he is responsible for the disappearance of a rapper (Nelly) and an unfinished album.","large":"Erik Triggs (Sam Jones III) is a good-natured Philadelphia teen and aspiring rapper who works at a hip-hop record label. There he hangs with rising superstar Prolifik (Nelly) during the day and works on his own music after hours. However, when Proli

Trucking and construction entrepreneur Charlie Walker fights institutional racism while cleaning up a massive oil spill off the coast of San Francisco in 1971.","large":"In 1971 two oil tankers collide off the coast of San Francisco, spilling millions of gallons of crude oil and creating an environmental disaster. Against all odds, trucking and construction entrepreneur Charlie Walker secures a lu

Knowing that his comrades are members of a white-supremacist group makes a Black policeman a target.

The lives of various characters intersect at Harlem's renowned Cotton Club. Handsome horn player Dix Dwyer falls for Vera Cicero, the stunning girlfriend of famous gangster Dutch Schultz.","large":"The lives of various characters intersect at Harlem's renowned Cotton Club. Handsome horn player Dix Dwyer falls for Vera Cicero, the stunning girlfriend of famous gangster Dutch Schultz. Meanwhile Dix'

After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.","large":"In early 1970s Harlem, daughter and wife-to-be Tish vividly recalls the passion, respect and trust that have connected her and her artist fiancé Alonzo Hunt, who goes by the nickname Fonny. Friends since childhood, the devoted couple dream of a future together, bu

A White House butler (Forest Whitaker) has a front-row seat to history through three decades and seven presidential administrations, including those of Eisenhower (Robin Williams), Kennedy (James Marsden) and Nixon (John Cusack).","large":"After leaving the South as a young man and finding employment at an elite hotel in Washington, D.C., Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker) gets the opportunity of a li

A racist prison guard has an affair with a Black woman after her husband, who was sentenced to capital punishment, dies.","large":"Hank, an embittered racist prison guard working on death row, begins an unlikely, emotionally charged sexual relationship with Leticia, a Black woman and wife of a man sentenced to death. The affair begins just after Hank oversees the capital punishment of Leticia's hu

Four Boston friends (Allen Payne, Aaron D. Spears) become big-time drug dealers but face the wrath of another kingpin.","large":"Four friends enter the drug trade in Boston in the late 1970s: Tristan (Allen Payne), Money (Aaron D. Spears), E-Bone and Simon. With the consent of a South End crime boss, Benny (Clarence Williams III), they quickly rise in the drug game, while the leader of the group,

Personal disputes and problems with drugs, alcohol and illness accompany the musical quintet's rise to fame.