Angela Bassett
Kjent for: Acting
Fødselsdag: 1958-08-16
Fødselssted: New York City, New York, USA
Også kjent som: Άντζελα Μπάσετ, アンジェラ・バセット, Angela Evelyn Bassett, 安琪拉·貝瑟, 安吉拉·巴塞特
Strange Days
Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reality-like recordings that allow users to experience...
Utgivelse : 1995.10.13Popularitet : 15.11
Meet the Robinsons
Lewis, a brilliant young inventor, is keen on creating a time machine to find his mother, who abandoned him in an orphanage. Things take a turn when...
Utgivelse : 2007.03.23Popularitet : 47.097
Boyz n the Hood
Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where...
Utgivelse : 1991.07.12Popularitet : 27.323
Contact
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and...
Utgivelse : 1997.07.11Popularitet : 33.418
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Follow the production of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” as the cast and crew take on the incredible challenge of remembering...
Utgivelse : 2023.02.07Popularitet : 20.565
Malcolm X
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he...
Utgivelse : 1992.11.18Popularitet : 25.722
Supernova
Set in the 22nd century, when a battered salvage ship sends out a distress signal, the seasoned crew of the rescue hospital ship Nova-17 responds....
Utgivelse : 2000.01.14Popularitet : 11.426
Gospel Hill
Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of a...
Utgivelse : 2008.02.09Popularitet : 3.266
The Score
An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist.
Utgivelse : 2001.07.13Popularitet : 22.547
Waiting to Exhale
Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar...
Utgivelse : 1995.12.22Popularitet : 13.126
Masked and Anonymous
Amidst unrest, organizers put on a benefit concert.
Utgivelse : 2003.07.25Popularitet : 8.654
Vampire in Brooklyn
Detective Rita Veder is assigned to a baffling serial murder case. After examining the crime scene — a corpse-filled ship found adrift at sea...
Utgivelse : 1995.10.26Popularitet : 10.01
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really...
Utgivelse : 1998.08.14Popularitet : 9.613
Music of the Heart
Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.
Utgivelse : 1999.10.29Popularitet : 8.864
Critters 4
A super strain of genetically engineered mutants are designed to take over the universe, hungry to conquer the galaxy, with an appetite for mankind.
Utgivelse : 1992.08.20Popularitet : 13.874
Innocent Blood
Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than...
Utgivelse : 1992.09.25Popularitet : 8.799
Akeelah and the Bee
Akeelah is a precocious 11-year-old girl from south Los Angeles with a gift for words. Despite her mother's objections, Akeelah enters various...
Utgivelse : 2006.04.28Popularitet : 17.973
One Special Victory
A fact-based story, John Larroquette plays a hotshot executive that ends up in court over a certain charge. He is sentenced to community service. He...
Utgivelse : 1991.12.08Popularitet : 1.377
Notorious
"Notorious" is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler...
Utgivelse : 2009.01.16Popularitet : 13.361
Passion Fish
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest...
Utgivelse : 1992.12.11Popularitet : 9.22
Nothing But the Truth
When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her...
Utgivelse : 2008.12.19Popularitet : 11.444
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
Directors Robert Townsend and Quincy Newell offer this comprehensive and hilarious examination of the history, evolution and cultural significance of...
Utgivelse : 2009.01.01Popularitet : 5.569
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Filmed at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio, the 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony honors inductees: Tina Turner,...
Utgivelse : 2021.11.20Popularitet : 5.043
What's Love Got to Do with It
Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husband Ike.
Utgivelse : 1993.06.09Popularitet : 17.353
Green Lantern
For centuries, a small but powerful force of warriors called the Green Lantern Corps has sworn to keep intergalactic order. Each Green Lantern wears...
Utgivelse : 2011.06.14Popularitet : 35.09
The Lazarus Child
A desperate couple uses a doctor's controversial method to revive their comatose daughter.
Utgivelse : 2004.05.13Popularitet : 3.815
Mr. 3000
Aging baseball star who goes by the nickname, Mr. 3000, finds out many years after retirement that he didn't quite reach 3,000 hits. Now at age 47...
Utgivelse : 2004.06.15Popularitet : 9.71
Meet the Browns
A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street. When...
Utgivelse : 2008.03.21Popularitet : 13.064
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors...
Utgivelse : 2003.02.10Popularitet : 2.654
The Rosa Parks Story
A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
Utgivelse : 2002.02.24Popularitet : 3.004
Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
A nameless baby elephant-steer was just getting used to life in the herd, when poachers kill his mother, so he runs and gets lost. He's found by a...
Utgivelse : 2000.10.03Popularitet : 4.017
Sunshine State
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real...
Utgivelse : 2002.06.21Popularitet : 5.701
Jumping the Broom
Two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding.
Utgivelse : 2011.05.06Popularitet : 10.463
This Means War
Two top CIA operatives wage an epic battle against one another after they discover they are dating the same woman.
Utgivelse : 2012.02.14Popularitet : 16.19
I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac
I AIN'T SCARED OF YOU is a documentary tribute to Bernie Mac (1957-2008). From his stand-up in underground Chicago comedy clubs to the Big Screen in...
Utgivelse : 2012.02.19Popularitet : 3.814
Wendell & Wild
Two demon brothers enlist the aid of Kat Elliot — a tough teen with a load of guilt — to summon them to the Land of the Living. But what...
Utgivelse : 2022.10.21Popularitet : 16.646
Panther
Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black...
Utgivelse : 1995.05.03Popularitet : 9.059
Boesman and Lena
Intense love and hate bring a man and woman through personal tragedy.
Utgivelse : 2000.11.03Popularitet : 0.994
Damsel
A young woman's marriage to a charming prince turns into a fierce fight for survival when she's offered up as a sacrifice to a fire-breathing dragon.
Utgivelse : 2024.03.07Popularitet : 90.934
Olympus Has Fallen
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former...
Utgivelse : 2013.03.20Popularitet : 40.448
White Bird in a Blizzard
In 1988, a teenage girl's life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears.
Utgivelse : 2014.08.14Popularitet : 11.468
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
A Louisiana juke joint owner loses her star entertainer and hires a white singer to fill in.
Utgivelse : 2001.12.01Popularitet : 2.655
Betty and Coretta
The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands.
Utgivelse : 2013.02.02Popularitet : 3.592
Our Friend, Martin
Two teens are sent back in time to meet Martin Luther King Jr. at several points during his life.
Utgivelse : 1999.01.12Popularitet : 7.551
Black Nativity
A street-wise teen from Baltimore who has been raised by a single mother travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged...
Utgivelse : 2013.11.27Popularitet : 10.594
Liberty
Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.
Utgivelse : 1986.06.23Popularitet : 2.67
Of Boys and Men
Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family...
Utgivelse : 2008.10.21Popularitet : 2.77
Doubletake
Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives...
Utgivelse : 1985.11.24Popularitet : 3.004
F/X
A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross...
Utgivelse : 1986.02.07Popularitet : 10.09
Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage
This women in prison drama tells us a story about the mother of three children, who was falsely accused for a crime she did not commit (drug...
Utgivelse : 1991.10.29Popularitet : 2.652
The Metropolitan Opera: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at long last. Theater luminary and...
Utgivelse : 2023.11.18Popularitet : 3.886
In the Best Interest of the Child
Jennifer's daughter is having nightmares and acting violently. It dawns on her that the child may be being sexually abused by her father. What is she...
Utgivelse : 1990.05.20Popularitet : 1.975
Wildwood
Set beyond Portland’s city limits, in Wildwood. You’re not supposed to go there. You’re not even supposed to know it exists. But...
Utgivelse : 1970.01.01Popularitet : 5.445
London Has Fallen
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
Utgivelse : 2016.03.02Popularitet : 36.069
Orion and the Dark
A boy with an active imagination faces his fears on an unforgettable journey through the night with his new friend: a giant, smiling creature named...
Utgivelse : 2024.02.01Popularitet : 80.784
Good Night Oppy
The inspirational true story of Opportunity, a rover that was sent to Mars for a 90-day mission but ended up surviving for 15 years. Follow...
Utgivelse : 2022.11.04Popularitet : 8.019
20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
Exploring the evolution of Black Panther from the comic emerging in the 1960s to the film the world fell in love with in 2018; director Ryan Coogler;...
Utgivelse : 2022.11.04Popularitet : 4.544
Survivor
A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for...
Utgivelse : 2015.05.21Popularitet : 20.432
Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle
When Curious George is offered a special space mission, Ted (The Man in the Yellow Hat) can't deny his little friend this exciting journey,...
Utgivelse : 2015.01.26Popularitet : 7.159
Chi-Raq
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.
Utgivelse : 2015.12.04Popularitet : 7.328
For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
This High Definition, PBS miniseries uses letters, diaries, speeches, journalistic accounts, historical text and military records to document and...
Utgivelse : 2010.01.01Popularitet : 3.258
Butterfly in the Sky
Two seconds into the bubbling synth sounds of its theme song will have a child of the 1980s or ‘90s exclaiming “Reading Rainbow!”...
Utgivelse : 2024.03.17Popularitet : 5.134
Black Panther
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However,...
Utgivelse : 2018.02.13Popularitet : 65.291
Disney Legends Awards Ceremony
Since 1987, the Disney Legends Awards program has honored individuals for the significant impact they've had on the Disney legacy. See the 2024...
Utgivelse : 2024.08.12Popularitet : 7.135
The Snowy Day
Based on the award-winning book by Ezra Jack Keats. Peter goes on a magical, snowy walk to his Nana's house to bring home their Christmas Eve dinner.
Utgivelse : 2016.11.25Popularitet : 3.687
The Heroes of Desert Storm
The first Iraq war saw many tragedies and acts of heroism. This is the story seen through the eyes of the men and women involved.
Utgivelse : 1991.10.11Popularitet : 2.301
Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
Perry Mason defends the husband of a famous rock singer who was found being killed after having had a tremendous discussion with her husband and her...
Utgivelse : 1990.05.20Popularitet : 3.127
Kindergarten Cop
Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord...
Utgivelse : 1990.12.21Popularitet : 7.477
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the...
Utgivelse : 2018.07.13Popularitet : 59.196
Challenger
A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its...
Utgivelse : 1990.02.25Popularitet : 2.92
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
Documentary film on events that happened on August 28th in African-American history, shown at the Smithsonian African-American History Museum.
Utgivelse : 2017.08.26Popularitet : 1.981
Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story
This is the story of Morris Dees, a civil rights lawyer, who's being threatened, so he has to have an armed bodyguard.
Utgivelse : 1991.01.21Popularitet : 2.096
City of Hope
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who...
Utgivelse : 1991.10.11Popularitet : 7.787
BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration
A White House concert and celebration in honor of the 8-year Presidency of Barack Obama and the First Lady Michelle Obama.
Utgivelse : 2016.11.15Popularitet : 1.779
Otherhood
Three suburban moms travel to New York City to visit their sons.
Utgivelse : 2019.08.13Popularitet : 8.628
Time Bomb
The Department of Homeland Security receives a threat that a bomb has been set to explode during a sports event in Washington, D.C.
Utgivelse : 2006.03.19Popularitet : 7.969
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King...
Utgivelse : 2022.11.09Popularitet : 89.564
National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony
The grand opening dedication ceremony of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Utgivelse : 2016.09.24Popularitet : 4.756
Bumblebee
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to...
Utgivelse : 2018.12.15Popularitet : 39.436
Gunpowder Milkshake
To protect an 8-year-old girl, a dangerous assassin reunites with her mother and her lethal associates to take down a ruthless crime syndicate and...
Utgivelse : 2021.07.14Popularitet : 20.777
The Flood
Surrounded by the unforgiving Kalahari Desert, the Okavango Delta is a lush, vibrant oasis that pulses with life each year as the great flood...
Utgivelse : 2018.11.25Popularitet : 2.326
Attorneys At Love
What if after meeting "the one", you get to know what happens before you commit?
Utgivelse : 2020.01.14Popularitet : 1.891
The Apollo
The history of New York City's Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment.
Utgivelse : 2019.04.24Popularitet : 4.165
Avengers: Endgame
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of...
Utgivelse : 2019.04.24Popularitet : 126.979
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
The Election of President Barack Obama began on March 5, 1770 at the Boston Massacre with the death of Crispus Attucks.
Utgivelse : 2014.02.11Popularitet : 2.447
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love,...
Utgivelse : 2014.06.22Popularitet : 1.903
Between the World and Me
Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special combines elements...
Utgivelse : 2020.11.21Popularitet : 3.241
Soul
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an...
Utgivelse : 2020.12.25Popularitet : 47.304
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
After five (or six) years of vanilla-wedded bliss, ordinary suburbanites John and Jane Smith are stuck in a huge rut. Unbeknownst to each other, they...
Utgivelse : 2005.06.07Popularitet : 45.039
TINA
Tina Turner overcame impossible odds to become one of the first female Black artists to reach a mainstream international audience. Her road to...
Utgivelse : 2021.08.20Popularitet : 7.602
Malika the Lion Queen
Follows life of Malika, a lioness in South Africa’s Kruger National Park as she battles to survive.
Utgivelse : 2021.04.04Popularitet : 3.006
Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor
A fire breaks out on the 12th floor of the First Interstate Tower building in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Paul and Susan are working late on the 37th...
Utgivelse : 1991.02.18Popularitet : 2.369
Coven
Over 300 years have passed since the turbulent days of the Salem witch trials and those who managed to escape are now facing extinction. Mysterious...
Utgivelse : 1970.01.01Popularitet : 0