
Avery Brooks
Actor · b. 1948 · Evansville, Indiana, USA
Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948) is an American actor, director, singer, narrator and educator. He is best known for his television roles as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk, and as Dr. Bob Sweeney in the Academy Award–nominated film American History X. Brooks was born in Evansville, Indiana, and raised in Gary, Indiana. He attended Oberlin College, where he studied music and theater. After graduating from Oberlin, he moved to New York City to pursue his acting career. Brooks's first professional acting role was in the play "The Great White Hope" in 1970. He went on to appear in a number of Broadway productions, including "The Wiz" and "A Chorus Line". He also starred in the television miniseries "Roots" in 1977. In 1993, Brooks was cast as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The series ran for seven seasons, and Brooks's performance as Sisko was critically acclaimed. He won a Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television in 1995. After Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ended, Brooks continued to work in television and film. He starred in the series "Shark" from 2006 to 2008, and he appeared in the films "American History X" and "The Score". Brooks is also a talented singer and musician. He has released two albums, "Song of My People" and "The Way I Feel". He is also a gifted director, and he has directed a number of theater productions and television episodes.
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Movie8.3DramaDerek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.
American History X
1998 · 12K votes
Movie5.9ActionCrimeWhen Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."
15 Minutes
2001 · 839 votes
Movie6.0ActionComedyAffable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-ending business. So, when he and his fellow assassins kidnap the daughter of an electronics mogul, it's naturally Melvin who takes the fall when their prime score turns sour. That's because the girl is the goddaughter of the gang's ruthless crime boss. But, even while dodging bullets, Melvin has to keep his real job secret from his unsuspecting fiancée, Pam.
The Big Hit
1998 · 496 votes
Movie6.4DocumentaryScience FictionThe Captains is a feature-length documentary film written and directed by William Shatner. The film follows Shatner as he interviews the other actors who have portrayed starship captains in the Star Trek franchise.
The Captains
2011 · 125 votes
Movie7.0HistoryDramaThe life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1987 · 14 votes
Movie6.9DramaTV MovieFollows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.
The Ernest Green Story
1993 · 9 votes
Movie7.1DocumentaryA documentary exploring the legacy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the reasons it went from the black sheep of Star Trek to a beloved mainstay of the franchise, and a brainstorm with the original writers on what a theoretical eighth season of the show could look like.
Movie6.5ComedyDramaA schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.
Finnegan Begin Again
1985 · 12 votes
MovieDocumentaryThis documentary explains the workings of the sun, the body at the centre of the solar system, with a core heat of 30 million degrees. Savage Sun reveals the most spectacular images of the sun ever gathered, captured from many spacecraft and observatories. Internal temperatures can reach millions of degrees Celsius and surface explosions leap tens of thousands of kilometers into space. It is the most awe inspiring and fearsome body in our solar system, yet, without it, life on earth could not exist.
Savage Sun
1999
Movie7.3DramaHistoryOn Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.
Roots: The Gift
1988 · 14 votes
Movie5.6DocumentaryTV MovieA star-studded tribute to Star Trek on its 30th anniversary, hosted by many of the stars and guest stars from all of the Trek series and movies. Also features a huge number of clips from all of the series and movies. At the end, real-life astronauts Aldrin and Jemison present NASA award plaques to the cast members.
Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond
1996 · 8 votes
Movie5.4DocumentaryThis History Channel special examines Christie's 40th Anniversary auction of the franchise's most recognizable film and television memorabilia, and features interviews with cast, crew and fans.
Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier
2007 · 6 votes
Movie6.1Science FictionTV MovieWhen a Klingon fleet under General Martok arrives at the station ostensibly to protect the Alpha Quadrant from the Dominion, Sisko recruits Lieutenant Commander Worf to discover the Klingons' true intentions.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior
1995 · 7 votes
Movie7.7DocumentaryParks makes himself the subject, tracing his development as a person and an artist through a non-narrative abstract self-portrait that combines his photographs with his poetry, musical compositions and scenes from his films. It also features footage of Parks, plus interpretations of his personal reminiscences performed by actors Avery Brooks, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Joe Seneca.
Moments without Proper Names
1987 · 3 votes
Movie5.3DocumentaryStar Trek: Deep Space Nine – Behind the Scenes was a fifty minute documentary hosted by Terry Farrell that looked at the creation of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, specifically its pilot episode "Emissary". Written by Stephen R. Wolcott and directed by Donald R. Beck, the documentary first aired on 4 January 1993 as a syndicated special of the by Paramount Television produced current media affairs show Entertainment Tonight, at the time the franchise's primary publicity outlet for anything live-action Star Trek related. In the documentary, Farrell (Jadzia Dax) takes the viewer on a tour around the Deep Space 9 sets. The feature also has interviews with the cast, producers, writers and other production staff members and takes a look at the making of "Emissary".
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes
1993 · 3 votes
Movie6.8TV MovieDramaA free Black man from New York is tricked, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in the South, where he endures twelve years of brutal servitude before finding a way to contact his family and secure his freedom.
Solomon Northup's Odyssey
1991 · 6 votes
Movie6.2DocumentaryHow real is the 'science' in Star Trek?
The New Explorers: The Science of Star Trek
1995 · 3 votes
Movie5.5DocumentaryA journey to seven of the most geographically dynamic locations on earth. The film features spectacular land forms, diverse wildlife and the people and cultures indigenous to these places. Distinct geographic places include the great island of Madagascar, home to unique limestone pinnacles and the playful lemur; and the greatest desert—the Namib—home of the largest sand dunes in the world that tower majestically over its western border, the Atlantic Ocean. Other locations featured are the great icecap of Greenland, Iguazu Falls in Brazil, the Okavango Delta in Botswana, the Chang Tang Plateau in Tibet, and the Amazon River in South America.
The Greatest Places
1998 · 9 votes
Movie6.6DocumentaryHistoryArcheologists discover a pit filled with terracotta warriors buried to protect the grave of the First Emperor of China.
Mysteries of Ancient China
2016 · 5 votes
Movie6.7TV MovieDramaWhen Spenser (Robert Urich), his psychologist girlfriend, Susan Silverman (Barbara Williams), and his right-hand man, Hawk (Avery Brooks), investigate a brutal murder in a quaint New England town, they discover plenty of illegal activity and cocaine. This 1994 made-for-television movie brings many of the beloved characters from the 1980s drama series (based on the books by Robert B. Parker) back to the small screen.
Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes
1994 · 3 votes
Movie7.5TV MovieDramaSpenser is hired out by Hugh Dixon to track down the killers of his wife and daughters. He and Hawk are drawn into a huge plot involving assassination attempts on African leader Winston Boyko by some racist terrorist named Paul.
Spenser: The Judas Goat
1994 · 2 votes
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TV7.9Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureAt Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, Commander Sisko and crew welcome alien visitors, root out evildoers and solve all types of unexpected problems that come their way.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993 · 1K votes
TV6.6DramaComedyAmerican Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.
American Playhouse
1982 · 8 votes
TV8.1AnimationSci-Fi & FantasyIn Scotland, 994 A.D. Goliath and his clan of gargoyles defend a medieval castle. In present day, David Xanatos buys the castle and moves it to New York City. When the castle is attacked the gargoyles are awakened from a 1000 year curse.
Gargoyles
1994 · 501 votes
TV6.3AnimationHappily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · 11 votes
TV5.4Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureA young group of cadets come together to pursue a common dream of hope and optimism. Under the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they will discover what it takes to become Starfleet officers as they navigate blossoming friendships, explosive rivalries, first loves and a new enemy that threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
2026 · 242 votes
TV6.9DramaCrimeMystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.
Spenser: For Hire
1985 · 34 votes
TV7.0DramaA Man Called Hawk is a prime time television series that ran on the ABC television network between January 1989 and May 1989. The series is a spin-off of the crime drama series Spenser: For Hire, and features the character Hawk, who first appeared in the 1976 novel Promised Land, the fourth in the series of Spenser novels by mystery writer Robert B. Parker. Brooks reprised the role of Hawk in four subsequent TV movies: Spenser: Ceremony, Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes, Spenser: The Judas Goat, and Spenser: A Savage Place. Each is considered a sequel to Spenser: For Hire.
A Man Called Hawk
1989 · 7 votes
TV6.6Sci-Fi & FantasyDocumentaryIn this documentary mini series, Shatner, in each of the five half an hour episodes, presents and interviews one of the people who played the five Star Trek captains before the 2009 reboot. Chris Pine interviews him.
The Captains Close Up
2013 · 10 votes
TVDocumentaryA two-part, four-hour documentary series honoring African-American servicemen and women.