Robert Townsend

Coach Banks (Robert Townsend) is used to calling all the shots for his championship high school basketball team and in his own love life. But ...

Bill Cosby shares his hilarious new observations on life and family in this comedy special, his first televised concert in 30 years.

Sixteen-year-old Xtra Keys hopes to raise his son better than his boozy, razor-edged mother raised him, and he just might get his wish when ...

Ocean a 27-year-old highly-motivated mother has found her calling in managing a neighborhood apartment building along with the residents and the ...

Directors Robert Townsend and Quincy Newell offer this comprehensive and hilarious examination of the history, evolution and cultural ...

From his discovery by a priest while serving time at the Missouri State Penitentiary to the infamous ‘Phantom Punch’ by Cassius Clay ...

Alan Chambers (Townsend) is a lawyer and sick of his job. He corrals his friends into forming a vigilante group. Everyone goes along with it at ...

In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely ...

An engaged Philadelphia policeman falls in love with a beautiful woman while dealing with a corrupt superior.

After losing his police officer lover, Christian drag queen Holiday Heart meets 12-year-old Niki and her drug-addicted mother, Wanda. Heart finds ...

The true life story of famed singer Natalie Cole, daughter of Nat ‘King’ Cole. Gripping drama of her struggle with addiction and ...

The story of Little Richard Penniman, from his poor Southern upbringing to dealing with the trials and tribulations of being a Black singer in ...

A boy is the only family member without superpowers in this Disney Film. The world depends on him saving his family from computerized ...

Showtime’s “In the 20th Century” is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take ...

A British documentarian profiles washed-up diva Jackie Washington as she prepares for her comeback concert.

Louis Gossett, Jr, Robert Townsend and Andre Braugher come together to each direct a short story, all of which are interconnected through themes ...

Two wannabe Black American princesses aim to marry rich men, who will pay for their world’s first combination hair salon and soul food ...

One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor. So he can fly, but he’s scared of heights. He can master the ...

In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially ...

Director Robert Townsend (Hollywood Shuffle) knows how to construct and, when necessary, even milk a laugh for optimal effect. This second ...

Eddie Murphy delights, shocks and entertains with dead-on celebrity impersonations, observations on ’80s love, sex and marriage, a ...

Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled ...