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Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
The Godfather

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
Starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe
Hidden Figures

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
Starring John David Washington, Adam Driver, Topher Grace
BlacKkKlansman

A joint American-Russian mission to a space station orbiting the Earth takes a dangerous turn when one of the Russian scientists is revealed to be a member of a terrorist group with a plan to use nuclear weapons to hold the entire planet hostage. It's up to a daring shuttle pilot to save the day. Daniel Baldwin, Frank Zagarino, Teri Ann Linn, Scott Valentine, John Reilly, Hannes Jaenicke, David Leisure 1999 Directed by Rodney McDonald MORE Popcornflix MOVIES, FREE on YouTube! Action: Romance: Horror: Crime: Drama: Comedy: Western: Popcornflix Channel page: Watch more free movies and TV series at Popcornflix.com, or on the Popcornflix app available on Roku, Amazon FireTV, iOS, Android, Chromecast, and AppleTV. , Full length free movies and TV series. Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: Popcornflix is owned/operated by Screen Media Ventures
Starring Jenna Ortega, Maddie Ziegler, Niles Fitch
The Fallout

King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o
Black Panther

The Big Blue, or Le Grand Bleu as it is known in France, is a 1988 movie by Luc Besson. This is the American version that the US studio recut to include a happier ending and a new score by Bill Conti, replacing the original score by Eric Serra. This version was only released on VHS and LaserDisc in the US as 4x3 pan-and-scan transfers. Luc Besson was not too happy with the whole thing, which is why this version is so hard to find.
Starring Rosanna Arquette, Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno
The Big Blue

Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.
Starring Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Díaz, Octavia Spencer
Fruitvale Station

After - Karolina Wydra (True Blood) and Steven Strait (10,000 Years BC) star in this Twilight Zone-esque tale of the afterlife about two bus crash survivors who wake from a coma to discover they are the only inhabitants of a small American town which is slowly being swallowed by a monstrous storm. 2012. Stars: Steven Strait, Karolina Wydra, Madison Lintz *Licened from MVD Entertainment. All rights reserved* Greetings Earthlings! *
Starring Josephine Langford, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Shane Paul McGhie
After

Karolina Wydra (True Blood) and Steven Strait (10,000 Years BC) star in this Twilight Zone-esque tale of the afterlife about two bus crash survivors who wake from a coma to discover they are the only inhabitants of a small American town which is slowly being swallowed by a monsterous storm.
Starring Josephine Langford, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Shane Paul McGhie
After

The Ditchdigger's Daughters is a television movie produced by the Family Channel in 1997. The film is based upon the book of the same name by Dr. Yvonne S. Thornton. Plot: Based on the memoirs of Yvonne S. Thornton, this heartwarming, inspirational family drama centers on a poor black laborer who wanted his six daughters to grow up to be doctors. Synopsis: In 1940s New Jersey, a poor, working man aspires to give his six daughters opportunities that he never had. Storyline: In many ways "The Ditchdigger's Daughters" adheres to the well worn path of a genre best described as the black struggle in an unjust white America. But the real plot in this movie revolves around the tyranny of a father and the effect it has on his six daughters as he cajoles, demands, blusters, and drives his daughters to reach for his notion of excellence. Demanding all "A" report cards, prohibiting dating, punishing with housework, and insisting that each daughter aim her sights on a career as a doctor all harken to the underlying fact of his own failure to complete school, and his own view of being poor and black. We do not own the rights to any of this film. This film is being used for historical and educational purposes only. No copyright infringement intended. Black Excellence:
Starring Carl Lumbly, Dulé Hill, Victoria Dillard
The Ditchdigger's Daughters

Polly is a 1989 American made-for-television musical film adapted from the book Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter featuring an all African-American cast (with the exception of Celeste Holm). It was directed and choreographed by Debbie Allen, starring Keshia Knight Pulliam, Phylicia Rashad and also featured the final performance of actress Butterfly McQueen. Polly was originally broadcast on NBC on November 12, 1989. Storyline: An orphan tries to use gladness to unite the people in a small southern town. Plot: Set in Alabama during the 1950s, Polly Whittier, an orphan who is sent to live with her aunt Polly Harrington, who is a descendant of the founding family of a small Southern town (also called Harrington) during the segregation era. A key point in dividing the town is a ravine which has an unrepaired bridge which burned down many years ago, and no one knows how it started and is suspicious of everyone else. Polly is able to convince people to look at the bright side of things, but tragedy strikes when Polly falls two stories from a tree, suffering a spinal injury. We do not own the rights to any of this film. This film is being used for historical and educational purposes only. No copyright infringement intended. Black Excellence:
Starring Keshia Knight Pulliam, Phylicia Rashād, Dorian Harewood
Polly

Something the Lord Made is a 2004 American made-for-television biographical drama film about the black cardiac pioneer Vivien Thomas (1910–1985) and his complex and volatile partnership with white surgeon Alfred Blalock (1899–1964), the "Blue Baby doctor" who pioneered modern heart surgery. Based on the National Magazine Award-winning Washingtonian magazine article "Like Something the Lord Made" by Katie McCabe, the film was directed by Joseph Sargent and written by Peter Silverman and Robert Caswell. Synopsis: Although Vivien Thomas (Mos Def), a black man in the 1930s, is originally hired as a janitor, he proves himself adept at assisting the "Blue Baby doctor," Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman), with his medical research. When Blalock insists that Thomas follow him to Johns Hopkins University, they must find a way to skirt a racist system to continue their study of infant heart disease. Thomas is indispensable to Blalock's progress, but Blalock is the only one who is allowed to receive the acclaim. Plot: Fact-based story of a white surgeon and a black lab technician who revolutionized heart surgery amidst the racial injustice of the 1940s. Storyline: Alfred Blalock (1899-1964), a cardiologist (therefore, self-confident to the point of arrogance), leaves Vanderbilt for Johns Hopkins taking with him his lab technician, Vivien Thomas (1910-1985). Thomas, an African-American without a college degree, is a gifted mechanic and tool-maker with hands splendidly adept at surgery. In 1941, Blalock and Thomas take on the challenge of blue babies and invent bypass surgery. After trials on dogs, their first patient is baby Eileen, sure to die without the surgery. In defiance of custom and Jim Crow, Blalock brings Thomas into the surgery to advise him, but when Life Magazine and kudos come, Thomas is excluded. Will he receive his due? Film Background: A man who in life avoided the limelight, Thomas remained virtually unknown outside the circle of Hopkins surgeons he trained. Thomas' story was first brought to public attention by Washington writer Katie McCabe, who learned of his work with Blalock on the day of his death in a 1985 interview with a prominent Washington, D.C. surgeon who described Thomas as "an absolute legend." McCabe's 1989 Washingtonian magazine article on Thomas, "Like Something the Lord Made", generated widespread interest in the story and inspired the making of a 2003 public television documentary on Thomas and Blalock, "Partners of the Heart." A Washington, D.C. dentist, Irving Sorkin, discovered McCabe's article and brought it to Hollywood, where it was developed into the film. Tagline: A breakthrough that changed the face of medicine. A unique partnership that broke the rules. We do not own the rights to any of this film. This film is being used for historical and educational purposes only. No copyright infringement intended. Black Excellence:
Starring Alan Rickman, Yasiin Bey, Kyra Sedgwick
