Dick Anthony Williams Movies

A black New York career girl, who has made it big in the fashion world, is torn between her new life "downtown" and her roots in Harlem with an old...

Officer Lacy is an 18-year veteran of the New York Police Department who finds himself demoted from detective back to patrol duty for his violent...

A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."

This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of...

Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.

An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer at the Cannes Film Festival. A passionate...

Elizabeth and Lauren are two Bakersfield housewives who volunteer to help the local police by working with crime victims to help catch criminals.

Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values...

A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds out one day that an...

After Diane Martin is raped by a hitchhiker and becomes pregnant, she must face the pious faculty at the school where she teaches who condemn her...

A man who grew up in a primitive society educating himself by reading Shakespeare is allowed to join the futuristic society where his parents are...

Joey lives with his mother. His father isn't around, he doesn't like school, he is bored and doesn't take orders from anyone. In other words he is a...

Heated confrontations and revelations result when a divorcee returns with her young son to the home of her two sisters.

A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.

A woman who uses a handgun to defend herself and shoots a man who is assaulting her in her home is doggedly prosecuted by the district attorney, bent...

A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.

A massive blackout plunges a major American city into a night of terror.

Psychic descendents of an African tribe reunite to save Earth. 5000 years ago certain members of the Dogon tribe in West Africa were granted psychic...

A prostitute is murdered on the streets of a tough, low-income neighborhood. A diabetic retired boxer who knew her is appalled by the lack of...

Richard Pryor wanders around the NBC Studio, encountering various eccentrics. Meanwhile, the Reverend James L. White, the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin...