Jeffrey Wright Movies

In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he...

Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his...

A behind the scenes look at the series as a whole, interviews with cast, crew and creators on the whole journey.

The story of those who risked everything to defeat the deadliest epidemic of our time.

Take a walk on the seamy side of town, where you can’t tell the difference between the bad cops and the crooks. Bob Holt, a corrupt detective...

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic...

This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her...

A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.

Behind the scenes of shooting in various notoriously difficult locations, including interviews with producers and lead actors.

Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at...

Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to achieve the American Dream.

Explore the life and legacy of notable Black scholar and civil rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois. From his birth, just five years after the Emancipation...

"Rigged" shows viewers just what Republicans did – and continue to do – from creating new barriers to voter registration, to purging...

Atrabilious follows Steven Joyner as he tries to solve the mystery behind his son's sudden, tragic and potentially fabricated death. He is led to the...

Fresh out of foster care at age 18, a young drifter turns to petty crime to survive, and discovers an impossible love in an unlikely friend.

A vibrant portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the NYC artist who revolutionized 1980s art. From street graffiti to gallery stardom, his bold...

Hannibal, one of the greatest military leaders in history, accompanied his father Amílcar Barca at the age of nine on the Carthaginian...

Backstage documentary chronicling the Original Broadway Production of “Angels in America.”

A documentary focused on infectious disease outbreaks.