Flash 1997   TV, 95 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Simon Wincer
Cast: Lucas Black, Brian Kerwin, Ellen Burstyn, Shawn Toovey, Tom Nowicki, Von Coulter, Dan Biggers, Sharon Blackwood, Whitt Brantley, Jill Jane Clements
A boy and a horse set the stage for this Disney family made-for-TV movie. Connor (Lucas Black) dreams of having Flash (the horse) for his own and saves his money, though the family is poor. Matters are made worse when the horse falls into the hands of a mean man.
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Miss Evers' Boys 1997  PG, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, Craig Sheffer, Joe Morton, Obba Babatunde, Von Coulter, Thom Gossom Jr., Ossie Davis, E.G. Marshall, Robert Benedetti
Seen through the eyes of a nurse on the scene, the focus of this film is the infamous 1932 Tuskegee Study of Untreated Blacks With Syphilis.
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The Rosa Parks Story 2002 TV, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Julie Dash
Cast: Angela Bassett, Peter Francis James, Cicely Tyson, Dexter King, Nick LaTour, Tonea Stewart, Von Coulter, Charde Manzy, Stephanie Astalos-Jones, Sonny Shroyer
Rosa Parks (excellently played by Angela Bassett) is best known for her refusal to obey bus segregation rules, but she was a pioneer in the civil rights movement. This is her story, diluted somewhat, but still powerful as it traces her life from her school days, to membership in the NAACP, and resulting major Civil Rights activities.
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Selma, Lord, Selma 1999  TV, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles Burnett
Cast: Mackenzie Astin, Jurnee Smollett, Stephanie Zandra Peyton, Clifton Powell, Ella Joyce, Yolanda King, Elizabeth Omilami, Afemo Omilami, Brett Rice, Tom Nowicki, Zach Rogers, Von Coulter
After listening to Martin Luther King Jr. (Clifton Powell) speak during 1965 in Alabama, 11-year-old Sheyann Webb (Jurnee Smollett) and her best friend, Rachel West (Stephanie Zandra Payton), join the Civil Rights Movement. Despite racial violence permeating their world, the girls persevere in support of Dr. King and join him on the march from Selma to Montgomery.
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| 1. Flash (1997)
2. Miss Evers' Boys (1997)
3. The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
4. Selma, Lord, Selma (1999)
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