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    TV

    The PJs (1999-2001)

    Animated series looks at life in a big-city housing project.

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    Movies

    Dog Run (2001)

    Two teenagers from the Deep South meet in New Orleans and hook up with a local drug dealer. He sends...

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    Hoodrat

    A vengeful madman (Isaiah Washington) and his would-be victims join forces to stave off an invasion...

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    The Perfect Life

    Follows five Harlem teenagers over the course of two years, after reuniting with the filmmaker who...

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    Good to Go (1986)

    A boozing journalist (Art Garfunkel) is framed for rape and murder while investigating the...

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    The Quiet One

    The Quiet One relates, in semidocumentary fashion, the inner workings of the Wiltwyck School for...

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    Dom na Trubnoi

    This engaging comedy of manners from celebrated Soviet director Boris Barnet finds a young peasant...

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    Hungry Hearts

    Humoresque (1920) spawned a large number of human interest films featuring Jewish immigrant mothers...

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    Movies

    Little Miss Smiles

    Ever-ebullient Shirley Mason is ideally cast in Little Miss Smiles. This is the story of a...

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    Music Man (1948)

    This musical tells of two argumentative brothers who accidently find themselves working on the same...

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    Movies

    The Silver Lining

    This socially-conscious drama is set in a slum and centers on the events that lead a parsimonious...

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    Movies

    Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)

    A poor New York couple's daughter (Margaret O'Brien) helps an ex-convict (George Murphy) and his...

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    Movies

    Twinkletoes

    Set in a not-so-reasonable facsimile of London's Limehouse district, Twinkletoes stars Colleen Moore...

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    Movies

    Two-Fisted Gentleman

    Breezy James Dunn breezes through the usual James Dunn breeziness in Two-Fisted Gentleman. Dunn is...

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    Jacked Up

    Boy commits murder, gets away with it and a year later, he turns himself in, but before doing so, he...

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    Movies

    Der Golem (1937)

    The birth of the defender of the Jewish ghetto.

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    Movies

    The Avenger

    Aeneas (Steve Reeves) seeks military aid from the Etruscans to secure a Trojan stronghold along the...

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    TV

    Sucker Free City (2005)

    Drama that centers on tension between white, black, Latino, and Asian street gangs in San Francisco...

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    TV

    In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997)

    Freed from Treblinka, a rabbi's bitter son (Don McKellar) hides with his father (Armin...

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    TV

    Our America (2002)

    Based on a true story about two African-American teens who live on the South side of Chicago, in one...

  • Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid picture
    TV

    Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid (1977)

    A drama about a ghetto youth's efforts to escape from his dismal existence and his chance at a...

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    TV

    Crazy Times (1981)

    As TV's answer to "Diner," this film follows the exploits of three teenage buddies sharing the good...

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    TV

    The George McKenna Story (1986)

    A television movie based on fact about a high school principal who turns a gang-ridden, South Los...

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    TV

    Heat Wave (1990)

    A television movie about the 1965 riots in the Watts section of Los Angeles. Recreates the...

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    TV

    The Marva Collins Story (1981-1982)

    Cicely Tyson was Emmy-nominated as Outstanding Actress for her portrait of a Chicago schoolteacher...

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    TV

    One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story (1978)

    The true story of baseball star Ron LeFlore from his days as a street-corner punk with no future to...

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    TV

    Prophet! (1991)

    The Rev. Brian Jefferson Mosely dispenses salvation in New Jersey ghettos.

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    TV

    Strapped (1993)

    Diquan Mitchell, an 18-year-old inner-city youth, sells guns on the street and information to the...

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    TV

    The Substitute 2: School's Out (1998)

    When a popular high school teacher is murdered, his brother, an ex-mercenary, becomes a teacher in...

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    TV

    Suddenly, Love (1978)

    Young lovers -- she a child of the ghetto, determined to escape her violent, alcoholic parents, and...