2024-09-21
Jamie Foxx stars as Nathaniel Ayers in Oscar-nominated director Joe Wright's poignant look at a former violin prodigy whose bouts with schizophrenia landed him on the streets after two years of schooling at Juilliard. Steve Lopez is a disenchanted journalist. He's wandering through Los Angeles' Skid Row when he spots Ayers, whose promising career in music was cut short due to acute mental illness.
The lives of four Harlem friends, one of whom is an aspiring deejay, fall apart following their involvement in a holdup gone fatally wrong. (Repeat).
Streetwise cops target a megalomaniacal drug lord, whose empire is threatened by an informer. (Repeat).
This documentary offers an unfiltered look into the lives of black trans sex workers. These women not only feel ostracized by the world but also within their own black community. The documentary sets out to find out if there is a way for these women to be accepted while living a lifestyle that is failing to be accepted by so many. (Repeat).
The story of a 1950s Kingston Robin Hood (Jimmy Cliff), driven by a striking reggae score. Jose: Carl Bradshaw. Preacher: Basil Keane. Elsa: Janet Bartley. Detective: Winston Stona. (Repeat).
The genesis of sweet sweetback's Baadassss Song. (Repeat).
A Coney Island gang known as the Warriors goes to the Bronx to attend a city-wide meeting of all gangs; at that event, however, the psychotic leader of a rival outfit, the Rogues, assassinates the head of the city's foremost gang, but the Warriors are pegged as culpable, and they must fight their way across rival turf to make it safely back to their territory. (Repeat).
Leon Gast's Oscar-winning portrait of Muhammad Ali, filmed in 1974 during the buildup to his highly publicized fight with George Foreman in Zaire. Narrated by Spike Lee, Norman Mailer and George Plimpton. (Repeat).
A criminal mastermind recruits a group of young bank employees to steal 80 million dollars in one of the largest bank heist in US history. (Repeat).
On New Year's Eve 1999, three friends, who are attempting to break into the music scene through pirate radio, drive through London in a desperate search for tickets for the best millennium party ever. (Repeat).
After being caught in an inappropriate video that goes viral, an entrepreneur hatches a plan to move forward. Starring Leslie Uggam and Adam Saunders. (Repeat).
Beyonce Knowles and Cuba Gooding Jr. star in this lively musical comedy about an ad executive who must lead a Georgia choir to victory in a gospel competition if he is to collect his inheritance. Along the way, he finds himself getting in tune romantically with one of the singers. (Repeat).
Three black friends gather for a wedding, and recall their teen years growing up in 1980s Inglewood, Cal., after the groom gets cold feet and starts thinking about his high-school sweetheart. A touching and nostalgic coming-of-age tale. (Repeat).
Live from New Orleans, Lavell Crawford is back with a new comedy special, riffing on everything from white neighborhoods to getting blessed with impossibly good deals on chicken and so much more. (Repeat).
A womanizing ad exec gets his comeuppance when he meets his new boss, Jacqueline, who is every bit his equal. (Repeat).