Shades of Black

A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

Tubman is a slave whose new owner claims to be a fair man, but treats her harshly; she finds inspiration to escape for freedom in the North.

At the risk of recapture, Harriet Tubman helps organize the Underground Railroad, which enables hundreds of enslaved African Americans to make their way to the freedom of the North.

In Jones County, Miss., Newt Knight (Matthew McConaughey) joins forces with other farmers and a group of runaway slaves to lead a violent rebellion against the Confederacy.","large":"In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to

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 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

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