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A Century of Black Cinema (2003)
TV-PG
Video | 120 min | Documentary

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A Century of Black Cinema (2003)

TV-PG

Video | 120 min | Documentary

This film highlights moments in the long and rich African American cinema history in relation to social and political events, and how it affected black viewers of the time.

Director

Ted Newsom

Writers

Michael Harrigan (concept) | Dennis Hunt

Producer

Dante J. Pugliese

Editor

Anthony Ulibarri

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Release date

Jun 24, 2003 (United States)

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Cast	+ Add Cast
40 cast members

Name	Known for
Kim Delgado Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	Life as a House (2001)
Muhammad Ali Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Greatest (1977)
Angela Bassett Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Black Panther (2018)
Harry Belafonte Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Bobby (I) (2006)
Lisa Bonet Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Angel Heart (1987)
Chevy Chase Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
Bill Cosby Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Cosby Show (1984)
Dorothy Dandridge Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Carmen Jones (1954)
Laurence Fishburne Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Matrix (1999)
Danny Glover Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Lethal Weapon (1987)
Whoopi Goldberg Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Ghost (1990)
Cuba Gooding Jr. Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Jerry Maguire (1996)
Louis Gossett Jr. Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Bill Henderson Self Self See fewer	Clue (1985)
Jack Hill Self Self See fewer	Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)
Bob Hope Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Ghost Breakers (1940)
Whitney Houston Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Bodyguard (1992)
George James Self Self See fewer	The Zinger Gang (1981)
James Earl Jones Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Paula Kelly Self Self See fewer	The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Sugar Ray Leonard Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Fighter (I) (2010)
Joe Louis Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	This Is the Army (1943)
Hattie McDaniel Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Gone with the Wind (1939)
Eddie Murphy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Nutty Professor (1996)
Fayard Nicholas Self Self See fewer	The Pirate (1948)
Alan Parker Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Evita (1996)
Sidney Poitier Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Otto Preminger Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Stalag 17 (1953)
Richard Pryor Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Superman III (1983)
Diana Ross Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Wiz (1978)
Sinbad Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Jingle All the Way (1996)
Will Smith Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)
Nick Stewart Self Self See fewer	It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Marlene Warfield Self Self See fewer	Network (1976)
Denzel Washington Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Fences (2016)
Carl Weathers Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Predator (1987)
Gene Wilder Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Vanessa Williams Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Ugly Betty (2006)
Marl Young Self Self See fewer	Star Trek (1966)
Tanya Weaver Cover model (uncredited) Cover model (uncredited) See fewer	James Dean: Race with Destiny (1997)