Mario Van Peebles Movies

CBS News looks at Malcolm X, focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965, suggesting that his death was a great loss to the...

Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song."...

A black police officer discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.

An accidental death at a bachelor party spurs a night of shooting, kidnapping and murder in the host's home.

The film takes a look at the life of NFL hall-of-famer Jim Brown. The film delves into his life—past, present and future—focusing on his...

Thrown into the face of death only to emerge unharmed, characters are left staring at their lives in the face with uncertainty and fear like they've...

In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely denied...

1908. Chief returns from years of hiding in Mexico to claim stolen reparations gold hidden in the hills of Montana but is chased by Angel, whose...

The story of an American soccer player trying to make it big who turns to Pele, the greatest soccer player of all time, for guidance.

A limo ride turns hellish as several kidnappers set their sights on the young people inside.

In 1828 the town of Flat Ridge is over run by a band of outlaws looking for lost treasure said to be buried somewhere in town. In their quest for...

A documentary about the making of director Michael Mann's feature film "Ali".

As the Harlem Renaissance flourishes in jazzy New York City, Pauline, Esther and Alice struggle to survive. By day, they toil at dreary jobs,...

When an alien force wages war on Earth, only the crew of the USS Iowa - the last American battleship, stands in their way.

Blair, Tootie, Natalie, Jo, Beverly Ann, and Andy visit the land down under. Blair and Jo are warned of a planned jewel heist; Beverly Ann visits a...

Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter,...

The Delivery Boys, a New York squad of breakdancing young men who work for a local pizza place, enter a breakdance contest in the hopes of winning a...

In the Wild West of the 1800s, a gunman is hired to take a group of emotionally-challenged people across the desert.

A sociology graduate student researches her doctoral thesis on female crime by interviewing street prostitutes. Shocked by her findings, she offers...

An ex-con and break-dancer helps save a neighborhood from a greedy developer while trying to win a rap contest.