Charles Burnett Movies

  • 2014
    Dreams Are Colder Than Death

    Dreams Are Colder Than Death

    Dreams Are Colder Than Death

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    What does it mean to be Black in America in the 21st century? The recently formed Black American film group TNEG™ has set out to elucidate this...

    Dreams Are Colder Than Death
  • 1980
    The Pocketbook

    The Pocketbook

    The Pocketbook

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    In the course of a botched purse-snatching, a boy comes to question the path of his life. Billy Woodberry’s second film, and first completed in...

    The Pocketbook
  • 1997
    The Final Insult

    The Final Insult

    The Final Insult

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    This video work intermingles fiction with actuality in a poignant confrontation with homelessness.

    The Final Insult
  • 1998
    The Wedding

    The Wedding

    The Wedding

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    Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) is engaged to marry talented white jazz musician Meade Howell, but the pair face opposition from both Meade's family, who...

    The Wedding
  • 2003
    For Reel?

    For Reel?

    For Reel?

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    For Reel?
  • 1989
    From Rags to Reality

    From Rags to Reality

    From Rags to Reality

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    With dreams of fame and fortune, Faith goes to Washington where she quickly discovers that the life of a budding starlet can be tougher than the...

    From Rags to Reality
  • 1973
    The Horse

    The Horse

    The Horse

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    This critically acclaimed 1973 short is about an aristocratic white farming family who has a horse that is being put away, by the father of a young...

    The Horse
  • 1984
    Bless Their Little Hearts

    Bless Their Little Hearts

    Bless Their Little Hearts

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    Charlie Banks, chronically unemployed, struggles to find dignity and a meaning for life in the impoverished Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts.

    Bless Their Little Hearts
  • 1969
    Several Friends

    Several Friends

    Several Friends

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    An improvised late '60s short-subject student film, and debut movie of Charles Burnett, done in the neo-realist, documentary film style. A...

    Several Friends
  • 2019
    A Walk with Charles Burnett

    A Walk with Charles Burnett

    A Walk with Charles Burnett

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    Filmmaker Robert Townsend executive-produced the following fifty-six-minute program for Criterion’s Meet the Filmmakers series in 2018. In it,...

    A Walk with Charles Burnett
  • 1979
    Bush Mama

    Bush Mama

    Bush Mama

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    The story of Dorothy and her husband T.C. He is a discharged Vietnam veteran who thought he would return home to a "hero's welcome." Instead he is...

    Bush Mama
  • 1997
    Documenta X - Die Filme

    Documenta X - Die Filme

    Documenta X - Die Filme

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    Documenta X - Die Filme
  • 2018
    The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution

    The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution

    The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution

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    Tells the poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is the...

    The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
  • 1979
    Your Children Come Back to You

    Your Children Come Back to You

    Your Children Come Back to You

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    A single mother ekes out a living from welfare check to welfare check, struggling to provide for her daughter.

    Your Children Come Back to You
  • 2020
    Cinetracts '20

    Cinetracts '20

    Cinetracts '20

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    A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the...

    Cinetracts '20
  • 2000
    Olivia's Story

    Olivia's Story

    Olivia's Story

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    A Little League baseball game becomes the unlikely context for this lyrical drama about memory and loss, told from the perspective of a...

    Olivia's Story
  • 1982
    A Different Image

    A Different Image

    A Different Image

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    An African American woman living away from her family in Los Angeles yearns to be recognized for more than her physical attributes. In cultivating...

    A Different Image
  • 1993
    Sa-I-Gu

    Sa-I-Gu

    Sa-I-Gu

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    Sa-I-Gu, literally translated in Korean as April 29, is the day of the 1992 Los Angeles riots or uprising. Three months after the events, the...

    Sa-I-Gu
  • 1969
    69 Pickup

    69 Pickup

    69 Pickup

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    Filmmaker Thomas Penick explores race, gender and violence in this provocative, disturbing drama set on a hot, summer day in 1969. When a woman...

    69 Pickup
  • 1986
    Crocodile Conspiracy

    Crocodile Conspiracy

    Crocodile Conspiracy

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    Conflicts arise when a middle aged African American school teacher decides to visit her father's homeland of communist Cuba.

    Crocodile Conspiracy