Mario Van Peebles Movies

Thrown into the face of death only to emerge unharmed, characters are left staring at their lives in the face with uncertainty and fear like they've...

With a spate of violence that rocks the inner city, L.A.P.D. and ex-Marine John Kross investigates its cause: a new drug called Chaos. With help from...

In April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a battlefield, the backdrop to four personal...

As the Harlem Renaissance flourishes in jazzy New York City, Pauline, Esther and Alice struggle to survive. By day, they toil at dreary jobs,...

Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.

Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song."...

The flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York of a drug lord and his gang.

1908. Chief returns from years of hiding in Mexico to claim stolen reparations gold hidden in the hills of Montana but is chased by Angel, whose...

CBS News looks at Malcolm X, focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965, suggesting that his death was a great loss to the...

A black police officer discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.

An attorney leaves his high-priced firm to work for the less fortunate.

Melvin Van Peebles was one of the first black directors to challenge the white establishment in his films, which include "Watermelon Man" and "Sweet...

In Los Angeles, five high-school friends deal with romance, money, prom, college, sex, bullies, social media, fitting in, standing out, and finding...

After a psychotic religious killer is captured and sentenced to death, he is instead recruited by the US government and trained to become a...

A cop, who is losing his sanity, lures his girlfriend and his former partner into the dangers of arson, robbery, and murder.

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

In 1828 the town of Flat Ridge is over run by a band of outlaws looking for lost treasure said to be buried somewhere in town. In their quest for...

Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter,...

In Tennessee, Bailey, a debt-straddled blues guitarist, is escorted across the state by a man named Augy so that he can collect his recently deceased...

Three college buddies travel to Key Largo for what promises to be the best spring break ever... until they end up stranded on a deserted island being...