Alfre Woodard Movies

A look at the issue of high-quality early care and education in America, from home to childcare to preschool; the tragic cost of getting it wrong;...

In a magical take on a true story, a slave mails himself from a plantation in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia in 1848.

Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless...

An intimate look at the life and career of Gordon Parks a true Renaissance man who has excelled as a photographer, novelist, journalist, poet,...

Three muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted cousin of the Chicano muralist set off on a road trip with...

A divorcee moves her family cross-country to take her paralyzed son to a pioneer neurosurgeon.

During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the...

Andrea Crawford, an important business woman, risks everything to save a kid from the life of crime.

Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood,...

Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the first Black woman to mount a retrospective at...

A one act play where a woman and a man share their life stories, till they inter stitch and conflict with each other.

The Underground Railroad was not really a railroad, nor was it always underground. It was an informal network of people and hiding places that helped...