Beah Richards

Günümüz Amerika'sının en çok tartışılan konularından biri: Uyuşturucu. Drugstore Cowboy da bu konuyu temel alan ve 1970'li yıllarda uyuşturucu bağımlılarının suçun içinde geçen hayatlarını ve kendilerini kurtarma hikayelerini anlatan güçlü bir film. Günümüzde uyuşturucuya karşı yürütülen mücadeleye rağmen bağımlıların dünyası hala bir gizem örtüsünün içinde. Drugstore Cowboy, bu kişilerin hayatını anlatan, özenle hazırlanmış gerçekçi bir film. Filmde uyuşturucunun yıkıcı/yok edici dünyasını izlerken, insan doğasının eşitsizliklere karşı kurtulma güdüsü ve umut arayışının etkileyici öyküsünü de izleyeceksiniz.

Bill Gillespie, Güney Amerikada küçük bir kasabada polis şefidir. Sonradan bölgenin şerifi konumuna gelir. Bill, suç olaylarını çözmeye ve suçluları yakalamaya çalıştıkça bir takım hileli küçük-kasaba politiklerini de kullanmak zorundadır. Bu süreçte dedektif Virgil Tibbs ve polis yüzbaşısı Bubba Skinner’dan destek almaktadır. Irk meselesine dair gerilim bölgede artmaktadır. Film Rod Steiger’a En İyi Erkek Oyuncu dalında Oscar getirmiştir. Ayrıca film 1967’de yılın en iyi uyarlama senaryo, en iyi kurgu ve en iyi ses dallarında ödül sahibi olmuştur.

Her şeyiyle mükemmel olan Keller ailesinin, kusurlu tek yönü kör, sağır ve haliyle dilsiz kızlarıdır. Kızlarının yaşıyla birlikte sorunları da artmaktadır. İstekleri ve ihtiyaçları gün geçtikçe çoğalan Helen'i anlamak, annesi ve babası için dahi imkansızdır. Bir yandan sevgi, şefkat ve acıma duyguları işin içine girince, Helen'i terbiye etmeye kimsenin ne gücü, ne de cesareti yeter. Onu ya bir bakım evine terk etmek gerekmektedir ya da bir hoca tutarak son seçeneği değerlendirmek. İşe aldıkları öğretmen henüz öğrenciliği süren, deneyimsiz, bakım evlerinde büyümüş ve görme engelli biridir. Eve adım attığı anda sorunlar ikiye katlanınca, ailenin tüm umutları tükenir. Öğretmenin ve Helen'in başarısız olacakları konusunda herkes hemfikirdir ancak gerekli sabırla tüm dünyayı öğrenmeye çalışmak, denemeye değecek kadar güzeldir.

Uzun süredir görmedikleri kızlarının evleneceğini ve o akşam yemeğe nişanlısı ve onun ailesiyle geleceğini öğrenen anne baba Drayton'lar hemen hazırlıklara başlar fakat kızları, damadın siyah olduğu gerçeğini söylemeyi atlamıştı. Amerikan toplumunun gedikli konusu ırkçılığa, muhafazakarlık ile hümanitenin müsabakası üzerinden yaklaşan 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner', güçlü oyuncu kadrosu ve nefis senaryosuyla eşsiz bir klasik.

After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...

A ruthless Southern opportunist tries to buy his cousin's land, and when thwarted, brings several tragedies to the lives of his loved ones.

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

A celebration of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who was born at the turn of the 20th Century and grew to be an important voice with her written portrayals of Black American life in the rural south of the 1930's and 40's, and the stories, songs and folklore that were her heritage and inspiration.

A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.

A paranoid schizophrenic woman finds treatment to her mental illness after 18 years of suffering.

After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with a teacher, he turns to his grandmother for advice. Spence, who lives in a genteel white area and has mostly white friends, feels like an outsider. He visits a bar in a black neighborhood, where he meets a few prostitutes, which doesn't help. Eventually, Spence starts a friendship with the housekeeper, Christine, who tells him her own difficult story.

Leaving her son behind at her parents' home in Omaha, Nebraska, recent divorcée Zoe attempts to start her life anew by moving to San Francisco. Seeking something to fill her lonely hours, she begins singing with a church choir. When new choirmaster Ephraim Adams is hired, Zoe finds his attitudes and ideas difficult to tolerate. Faced with the challenging task of satisfying Adams' unrelenting perfectionism, Zoe is tempted once more to run away from her problems.

A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cousin in order to secure the family inheritance. To aid in the comic complications that follow are his family members Missy and Gitlow, and the plantation owners endearing (but ineffectual) son Charlie.

Tennessee kırsalındaki iki genç çocuk, huysuz bir tazıyı şampiyon bir av köpeğine dönüştürmek gibi neredeyse imkânsız bir görevi üstlenir.

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, it won the Documentary Award at the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival in 2003.

Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease increasing racial tensions.

An aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring a choice between the man she loves or her newfound success.

Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a young hustler and, after stealing a gangster's car, the two embark on an adventure down south in search of the hustler's estranged father.

Fact-based drama about the two Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fights and the way both boxers unwillingly became symbols of political ideologies just prior to World War II.

Banjo is a curious and rebellious kitten who is always getting into trouble. When he decides to jump off a roof of a chicken coop to see if he can land on his feet, he is ordered to "fetch a switch". Thinking his parents wouldn't care if he gets hurt, he hitches a ride on a feed truck, all the way to Salt Lake City. After he finds the excitement of the city, he soon finds it cold and lonely and wishes to be home. With the help of stray cat Crazy Legs and a trio of singing cat girls, he finds the truck and returns home.

A Southern minister is assigned to a poor church in California where the congregation is drifting away and the church itself is scheduled for demolition.

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 is assigned to coach a basketball team of mentally handicapped citizens. At first, he is reluctant and thinks selfishly of his own needs. Later on, he finds the real meaning of life which is helping others.

Upon learning that their grandmother is not long for this world, Nate and Priscilla Simmons pack up their kids and leave Detroit to head down South. Eventually, the family rediscovers its African-American roots and elects to stay in their new rural surroundings.

An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.

A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”

1994 yılında ER yayına başladığında televizyon tarihinin geri dönülmez evrelerinden biri de başladı. Gösterime girdiği ilk sezon ABD’de tüm reytingleri alt üst eden dizi daha önceki hastane dizilerinin başaramadığını başararak türe yepyeni bir atılım getirdi. Chicago’da bir hastanenin acil servisini her yönüyle ekrana taşıyan ER’ın hikayeleri öncelikle doktorlar, hemşireler, tıp öğrencileri ve diğer hastane personeli üzerine yoğunlaşıyor. İkincil öykü çıkış noktası ise hastaların yaşadığı problemler.

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.

L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital who gave interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions.

Thrifty, folksy and cantankerous, Matlock charges a premium for his services but is worth every penny: This renowned attorney, always clothed in his trademark light-gray suit and driving his signature Ford Crown Victoria, has an uncanny knack for finding overlooked clues and exposing murderers in dramatic courtroom scenes.

The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.

A long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. A spin-off of Perfect Strangers.

Mrs. Edna Garrett, housemother and dietitian at the Eastland School, teaches a group of girls in her charge how to solve those problems that every teenager has to face.

A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman, and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television.

Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.

A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.

The John Larroquette Show is an American television sitcom .The show was a vehicle for John Larroquette following his run as Dan Fielding on Night Court. The series takes place in a seedy bus terminal in St. Louis, Missouri and originally focused on the somewhat broken people who worked the night shift, and in particular, the lead character's battle with alcoholism.

Private detective Dan Tanna drives around the streets of Las Vegas in a red 1957 Ford Thunderbird solving crimes and making Las Vegas a better place for residents and tourists alike.

The misadventures of a cantankerous junk dealer and his frustrated son.

An abandoned waif and her dog are taken in by a cranky apartment manager who becomes her guardian in this family-friendly sitcom.

Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo is a divorced single-parent whom is just as strong-willed as Julia, but isn't as self-confident. Charlene is the naive and trusting farm girl from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Suzanne is the self-centered ex-beauty queen whom has a number of wealthy ex-husbands.

A housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and discusses all manner of things with her neighbors.