Gertrude Jeannette Movies

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

A documentary look at the confluence of the Red scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and...

A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.

A trio of runaway slaves evade authorities in the Old West.

An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.

Excerpts from the 1969 Off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater of To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry, adapted...