Mario Van Peebles Movies

The LA police department have a special team of officers with a talent for reducing big-time crime. The team leader has an excellent track record for...

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

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...

George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On their tropical island, they find soldiers...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

Blair, Tootie, Natalie, Jo, Beverly Ann, and Andy visit the land down under. Blair and Jo are warned of a planned jewel heist; Beverly Ann visits a...

A sociology graduate student researches her doctoral thesis on female crime by interviewing street prostitutes. Shocked by her findings, she offers...

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...

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 the Wild West of the 1800s, a gunman is hired to take a group of emotionally-challenged people across the desert.

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,...