When you change your mind, you can change your life. King Dog celebrates one man's real life story of triumph and redemption in a world of crime and corruption.

从神学院毕业后的约瑟夫·威利成了一名神父，但在上世纪六十年代黑人神父在美国是极为少见的。约瑟夫因鼓动黑人工人罢工而被贬到路易斯安那州的一所黑人学校担任老师，于是他千里迢迢来到了这所学校任教。学校的篮球队教练离开了，没有人愿意来带这个由黑人学生组成的球队，约瑟夫又担任了教练。他带领球员进入不肯卖给黑人食物的餐馆，他的勇气赢得了同学们的尊敬。以往黑人球队无缘参加与白人球队的较量，这一次，为了争取与白人球队拥有公平的机会，约瑟夫不遗余力。他教导球队靠集体的力量团结一致取得胜利，而不是靠个人出风头。他们走进耶酥会，和冠军球队定下了比赛的时间，在他的统一调动和全体队员的积极配合下，终于战胜了一向瞧不起他们的冠军队。

A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.

The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation.

From Amos 'n' Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many roles on primetime television. Brilliantly weaving clips from classic TV shows with commentary from TV producers, black actors and scholars, Marlon Riggs blends humor, insight, and thoughtful analysis to explore the evolution of black/white relations as reflected by America's favorite addiction.

Billie Holiday is one of the most phenomenal and tragic jazz vocalists of all time. The Philadelphia-born star's life was wrought with personal turmoil and numbed (and ultimately destroyed) by drug dependency. Jazz aficionados and novices alike are given an opportunity to see and hear the legendary jazz singer through rare TV and movie footage, commentary from fellow instrumentalists and singers, and narration from Holiday's autobiography, "Lady Sings the Blues," as read by stage and screen star Ruby Dee.

婆婆做了一个梦，梦里是美好的旧日时光，大家在一起唱歌聚餐。管他是否回光返照，她决定也要办一场热闹的盛宴，而且所有孙子孙女都得出席，因为她将正式宣布继承人选。终於，亲友团纷纷报到，但宴会还没开始，就已经波折不断……

A little black girl learns about racism.

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.

Dr. Maureen Brennan (Rosie O'Donnell), a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center, encounters her newest patient, a 16-year-old biracial boy named America. Through their sessions, Dr. Brennan helps America come to terms with his roller-coaster life, which began when he was taken by authorities from his crack-addicted mother and placed into foster care as an infant. In this emotional story, Dr. Brennan works to help him open up about his painful past and discover the support and courage he needs to get his life back on track. This Lifetime Original Movie is based on the book “America” by E.R. Frank.

A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage from the concert with footage of the living conditions in the current-day Watts neighborhood.

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.