Jeffrey Wright Movies

The story of those who risked everything to defeat the deadliest epidemic of our time.

Acclaimed actors draw from five of Douglass’ legendary speeches, to represent a different moment in the tumultuous history of 19th century...

Fresh out of foster care at age 18, a young drifter turns to petty crime to survive, and discovers an impossible love in an unlikely friend.

The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.

Atrabilious follows Steven Joyner as he tries to solve the mystery behind his son's sudden, tragic and potentially fabricated death. He is led to the...

A documentary about the making of director Michael Mann's feature film "Ali".

Documentary film about the making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. An impressively in depth assortment of seven featurettes that look at a...

A biographical portrait of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, twentieth century colossus: public intellectual, policy specialist, ambassador, and NY senator.

"Rigged" shows viewers just what Republicans did – and continue to do – from creating new barriers to voter registration, to purging...

Follow Willie Mays’ life both on and off the field over five decades as he navigated the American sports landscape and the country’s...

A vibrant portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the NYC artist who revolutionized 1980s art. From street graffiti to gallery stardom, his bold...

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic...

This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A behind the scenes look at the series as a whole, interviews with cast, crew and creators on the whole journey.

Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at...

A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.

Follows veterans and active-duty service members from varied backgrounds who come together to combat their traumas through the written word in a...

Hannibal, one of the greatest military leaders in history, accompanied his father Amílcar Barca at the age of nine on the Carthaginian...

Behind the scenes of shooting in various notoriously difficult locations, including interviews with producers and lead actors.

Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his...