Legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix (Wood Harris) innovates 1960s rock 'n' roll, then dies of a drug overdose at 27.

Orphan Bill Robinson (Gregory Hines) overcomes an impoverished childhood to become a groundbreaking actor and dancer.

Heavyweight boxing champ Muhammad Ali speaks, visits comic Stepin Fetchit and appears in fight footage.

The life and times of the NAACP field secretary and civil-rights leader (Howard E. Rollins Jr.), assassinated in 1963.

Filmmakers Jo Menell and Angus Gibson chronicle Nelson Mandela's rise from tribal leader to president of South Africa.

Legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix (Wood Harris) innovates 1960s rock 'n' roll, then dies of a drug overdose at 27.

Orphan Bill Robinson (Gregory Hines) overcomes an impoverished childhood to become a groundbreaking actor and dancer.

Heavyweight boxing champ Muhammad Ali speaks, visits comic Stepin Fetchit and appears in fight footage.

The life and times of the NAACP field secretary and civil-rights leader (Howard E. Rollins Jr.), assassinated in 1963.

Filmmakers Jo Menell and Angus Gibson chronicle Nelson Mandela's rise from tribal leader to president of South Africa.

Legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix (Wood Harris) innovates 1960s rock 'n' roll, then dies of a drug overdose at 27.

An ex-convict (Mario Van Peebles) shows residents of his Pittsburgh ghetto how to drive out riffraff with rap music.

A student composer (Rae Dawn Chong) inspires South Bronx residents to new heights in break dancing, rap music and graffiti.

Kelly (Lucinda Dickey) quits her job dancing in a chorus line in Los Angeles and goes home. Ignoring her father's wishes, Kelly teams up with her friends for a break-dancing benefit show to save an endangered community center.

Two high-school pals (Glynn Turman, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs) hang out, face a teacher and flee the police in 1964 urban Chicago.

A young woman encourages a New York City teen (Brendan Sexton III) to reconsider gang values and pursue his dreams.

An ex-convict (Mario Van Peebles) shows residents of his Pittsburgh ghetto how to drive out riffraff with rap music.

A student composer (Rae Dawn Chong) inspires South Bronx residents to new heights in break dancing, rap music and graffiti.

Kelly (Lucinda Dickey) quits her job dancing in a chorus line in Los Angeles and goes home. Ignoring her father's wishes, Kelly teams up with her friends for a break-dancing benefit show to save an endangered community center.

Two high-school pals (Glynn Turman, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs) hang out, face a teacher and flee the police in 1964 urban Chicago.

A young woman encourages a New York City teen (Brendan Sexton III) to reconsider gang values and pursue his dreams.

An ex-convict (Mario Van Peebles) shows residents of his Pittsburgh ghetto how to drive out riffraff with rap music.

A student composer (Rae Dawn Chong) inspires South Bronx residents to new heights in break dancing, rap music and graffiti.

Kelly (Lucinda Dickey) quits her job dancing in a chorus line in Los Angeles and goes home. Ignoring her father's wishes, Kelly teams up with her friends for a break-dancing benefit show to save an endangered community center.

Two high-school pals (Glynn Turman, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs) hang out, face a teacher and flee the police in 1964 urban Chicago.

A surgeon (Ray Liotta) and his colleagues show a new doctor (Kiefer Sutherland) how to cut red tape at a poorly run hospital for veterans.

A struggling black actor must decide whether success is worth compromising his integrity for a stereotypical role.

A white executive (George Segal) with a white wife (Susan Saint James) learns he has an illegitimate 17-year-old son (Denzel Washington) who's not white.

Back talk and a wedding change a couple's (Clarice Taylor, Leonard Jackson) household in the Watts section of Los Angeles.

Fed up with his intrusiveness, members of a family shoot a census taker and try to hide his body from a detective.

A surgeon (Ray Liotta) and his colleagues show a new doctor (Kiefer Sutherland) how to cut red tape at a poorly run hospital for veterans.

A struggling black actor must decide whether success is worth compromising his integrity for a stereotypical role.

A white executive (George Segal) with a white wife (Susan Saint James) learns he has an illegitimate 17-year-old son (Denzel Washington) who's not white.

Back talk and a wedding change a couple's (Clarice Taylor, Leonard Jackson) household in the Watts section of Los Angeles.

Fed up with his intrusiveness, members of a family shoot a census taker and try to hide his body from a detective.

A surgeon (Ray Liotta) and his colleagues show a new doctor (Kiefer Sutherland) how to cut red tape at a poorly run hospital for veterans.

A struggling black actor must decide whether success is worth compromising his integrity for a stereotypical role.

A white executive (George Segal) with a white wife (Susan Saint James) learns he has an illegitimate 17-year-old son (Denzel Washington) who's not white.

Back talk and a wedding change a couple's (Clarice Taylor, Leonard Jackson) household in the Watts section of Los Angeles.

Fed up with his intrusiveness, members of a family shoot a census taker and try to hide his body from a detective.

An FBI agent (Beau Bridges) and a detective (Bubba Smith) tie ghetto drugs and mayhem to a colonel's (Lloyd Bridges) white supremacists.

Photographer Friday Foster travels to an airport to capture a few shots of the richest black man in the United States. As she takes pictures, she witnesses an assassination attempt on her subject and becomes a target of the assassins.

A private investigator tries to rescue her father's financially imperiled loan business.

Cohorts turn brutal while helping a man (Fred Williamson) avenge his brother's death in a racially divided town.

A hooker (Pam Grier) and a radical (Margaret Markov) escape from a brutal Philippine prison, chained together.

His bones stirred by Deep South voodoo, Blacula the vampire (William Marshall) is cursed to kill again.

Photographer Friday Foster travels to an airport to capture a few shots of the richest black man in the United States. As she takes pictures, she witnesses an assassination attempt on her subject and becomes a target of the assassins.

A private investigator tries to rescue her father's financially imperiled loan business.

Cohorts turn brutal while helping a man (Fred Williamson) avenge his brother's death in a racially divided town.

A hooker (Pam Grier) and a radical (Margaret Markov) escape from a brutal Philippine prison, chained together.

His bones stirred by Deep South voodoo, Blacula the vampire (William Marshall) is cursed to kill again.

Photographer Friday Foster travels to an airport to capture a few shots of the richest black man in the United States. As she takes pictures, she witnesses an assassination attempt on her subject and becomes a target of the assassins.

A private investigator tries to rescue her father's financially imperiled loan business.

Cohorts turn brutal while helping a man (Fred Williamson) avenge his brother's death in a racially divided town.

A hooker (Pam Grier) and a radical (Margaret Markov) escape from a brutal Philippine prison, chained together.

His bones stirred by Deep South voodoo, Blacula the vampire (William Marshall) is cursed to kill again.

A murder suspect (Corbin Bernsen) works for a businessman running against Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) for sheriff.

Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) and Forbes (Carl Weathers) link a suspect to a witness of a hit-and-run fatality.

As Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) and Harriet prepare to leave for their honeymoon, Forbes (Carl Weathers) clashes with a charismatic cult leader (Peter Fonda) who has arrived in Sparta.

The trail of a serial killer leads the sheriff (Carroll O'Connor) and police chief (Carl Weathers) to a prominent citizen in Sparta, Miss.

Only the sheriff (Carroll O'Connor) knows the identity of an actress (Sydne Rome) returned home to Sparta, Miss.

A murder suspect (Corbin Bernsen) works for a businessman running against Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) for sheriff.

Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) and Forbes (Carl Weathers) link a suspect to a witness of a hit-and-run fatality.

As Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) and Harriet prepare to leave for their honeymoon, Forbes (Carl Weathers) clashes with a charismatic cult leader (Peter Fonda) who has arrived in Sparta.

The trail of a serial killer leads the sheriff (Carroll O'Connor) and police chief (Carl Weathers) to a prominent citizen in Sparta, Miss.

Only the sheriff (Carroll O'Connor) knows the identity of an actress (Sydne Rome) returned home to Sparta, Miss.

A murder suspect (Corbin Bernsen) works for a businessman running against Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) for sheriff.

Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) and Forbes (Carl Weathers) link a suspect to a witness of a hit-and-run fatality.

As Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) and Harriet prepare to leave for their honeymoon, Forbes (Carl Weathers) clashes with a charismatic cult leader (Peter Fonda) who has arrived in Sparta.

The trail of a serial killer leads the sheriff (Carroll O'Connor) and police chief (Carl Weathers) to a prominent citizen in Sparta, Miss.

Only the sheriff (Carroll O'Connor) knows the identity of an actress (Sydne Rome) returned home to Sparta, Miss.

A boy (Lukas Haas) works with convicts on the sugar-cane plantation of a senile Civil War veteran (Robert Duvall) in 1902 Texas.

An angry Vietnam veteran (Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs) leads a Los Angeles street gang in a war on drug dealers.

A teacher (Calvin Lockhart) in a middle-class school is bused with white students to a ghetto school.

Based on Louis S. Peterson's play about a black teenager coping with life in a predominantly white society.

Mexican-American students follow their leader's (Tom Nardini) strike for equality in an Arizona town.

A boy (Lukas Haas) works with convicts on the sugar-cane plantation of a senile Civil War veteran (Robert Duvall) in 1902 Texas.

An angry Vietnam veteran (Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs) leads a Los Angeles street gang in a war on drug dealers.

A teacher (Calvin Lockhart) in a middle-class school is bused with white students to a ghetto school.

Based on Louis S. Peterson's play about a black teenager coping with life in a predominantly white society.

Mexican-American students follow their leader's (Tom Nardini) strike for equality in an Arizona town.

A boy (Lukas Haas) works with convicts on the sugar-cane plantation of a senile Civil War veteran (Robert Duvall) in 1902 Texas.

An angry Vietnam veteran (Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs) leads a Los Angeles street gang in a war on drug dealers.

A teacher (Calvin Lockhart) in a middle-class school is bused with white students to a ghetto school.

Based on Louis S. Peterson's play about a black teenager coping with life in a predominantly white society.

Mexican-American students follow their leader's (Tom Nardini) strike for equality in an Arizona town.

Cuban refugees (Marisa Tomei, Alfred Molina) with the same surname are mistaken for a married couple in 1980 Miami.

A rich Turkish bar owner (Sonia Braga) falls in love with his beautiful Brazilian cook (Marcello Mastroianni).

The love lives of several people intersect after Chloe (Alexa Davalos) moves to an Oregon town and takes a job in a coffee shop.

Two women (V.S. Brodie, Guinevere Turner) are set up on a blind date by a professor (T. Wendy McMillan) pairing her ex-student with her roommate.

A disc jockey and a therapist help callers on a radio program sort through their relationship issues.

Cuban refugees (Marisa Tomei, Alfred Molina) with the same surname are mistaken for a married couple in 1980 Miami.

A rich Turkish bar owner (Sonia Braga) falls in love with his beautiful Brazilian cook (Marcello Mastroianni).

The love lives of several people intersect after Chloe (Alexa Davalos) moves to an Oregon town and takes a job in a coffee shop.

Two women (V.S. Brodie, Guinevere Turner) are set up on a blind date by a professor (T. Wendy McMillan) pairing her ex-student with her roommate.

A disc jockey and a therapist help callers on a radio program sort through their relationship issues.

Cuban refugees (Marisa Tomei, Alfred Molina) with the same surname are mistaken for a married couple in 1980 Miami.

A rich Turkish bar owner (Sonia Braga) falls in love with his beautiful Brazilian cook (Marcello Mastroianni).

The love lives of several people intersect after Chloe (Alexa Davalos) moves to an Oregon town and takes a job in a coffee shop.

Two women (V.S. Brodie, Guinevere Turner) are set up on a blind date by a professor (T. Wendy McMillan) pairing her ex-student with her roommate.

A disc jockey and a therapist help callers on a radio program sort through their relationship issues.

A drag queen (Ving Rhames) mourning the loss of his lover takes in a drug addict (Alfre Woodard) and her daughter (Jessika Quynn Reynolds).

A South American reporter (Raul Julia) investigates the life of an impoverished Caribbean peasant girl who became a world-famous madam (Miriam Colon).

A streetwalker (Eartha Kitt) falls in love after her family marries her off for money.

An aspiring dancer (Peggy Pettit) and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter (Leslie Uggams).

The son (Edwin Mahinda) of a priest slain by Mau Mau moves in with a police officer (Bob Peck) and his wife (Phyllis Logan) in 1950 Kenya.

A drag queen (Ving Rhames) mourning the loss of his lover takes in a drug addict (Alfre Woodard) and her daughter (Jessika Quynn Reynolds).

A South American reporter (Raul Julia) investigates the life of an impoverished Caribbean peasant girl who became a world-famous madam (Miriam Colon).

A streetwalker (Eartha Kitt) falls in love after her family marries her off for money.

An aspiring dancer (Peggy Pettit) and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter (Leslie Uggams).

The son (Edwin Mahinda) of a priest slain by Mau Mau moves in with a police officer (Bob Peck) and his wife (Phyllis Logan) in 1950 Kenya.

A drag queen (Ving Rhames) mourning the loss of his lover takes in a drug addict (Alfre Woodard) and her daughter (Jessika Quynn Reynolds).

A South American reporter (Raul Julia) investigates the life of an impoverished Caribbean peasant girl who became a world-famous madam (Miriam Colon).

A streetwalker (Eartha Kitt) falls in love after her family marries her off for money.

An aspiring dancer (Peggy Pettit) and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter (Leslie Uggams).

Los Angeles interior decorators buy the coffin of an African prince (William Marshall) bitten by Dracula centuries before.

His bones stirred by Deep South voodoo, Blacula the vampire (William Marshall) is cursed to kill again.

Baron Samedi (Don Pedro Colley) summons the undead with voodoo to help a woman (Marki Bey) fight killer gangsters.

The spirit of a zoot-suited, razor-wielding 1940s hoodlum possesses a New Orleans law student (Glynn Turman).

A Los Angeles policeman (Lou Diamond Phillips) hunts a killer (Jeff Kober) brought back from the gas chamber by Satan.

Los Angeles interior decorators buy the coffin of an African prince (William Marshall) bitten by Dracula centuries before.

His bones stirred by Deep South voodoo, Blacula the vampire (William Marshall) is cursed to kill again.

Baron Samedi (Don Pedro Colley) summons the undead with voodoo to help a woman (Marki Bey) fight killer gangsters.

The spirit of a zoot-suited, razor-wielding 1940s hoodlum possesses a New Orleans law student (Glynn Turman).

A Los Angeles policeman (Lou Diamond Phillips) hunts a killer (Jeff Kober) brought back from the gas chamber by Satan.

Los Angeles interior decorators buy the coffin of an African prince (William Marshall) bitten by Dracula centuries before.

His bones stirred by Deep South voodoo, Blacula the vampire (William Marshall) is cursed to kill again.

Baron Samedi (Don Pedro Colley) summons the undead with voodoo to help a woman (Marki Bey) fight killer gangsters.

The spirit of a zoot-suited, razor-wielding 1940s hoodlum possesses a New Orleans law student (Glynn Turman).

An adventurer's boss (Maud Adams) and other villains want his widow (Lisa Eilbacher) to lead them to his South American jewels.

A San Francisco detective (Edward James Olmos) dogs a man (George Dzundza) he thinks is a serial killer, even though a man who confessed died and the case closed.