Mario Van Peebles Movies

The ultimate deep dive into the world of shark cinema: filmmakers, critics, scholars and conservationists explore the weird, wild cinematic legacy of...

In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely denied...

In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story...

A sociology graduate student researches her doctoral thesis on female crime by interviewing street prostitutes. Shocked by her findings, she offers...

A man abducts the love of his life from her holiday-themed wedding in a desperate last attempt to win her back.

In the Wild West of the 1800s, a gunman is hired to take a group of emotionally-challenged people across the desert.

In Tennessee, Bailey, a debt-straddled blues guitarist, is escorted across the state by a man named Augy so that he can collect his recently deceased...

Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.

At 10:20 pm, on a foggy December 25th in 1951, a bomb exploded under their small shotgun-style home on the outskirts of Mims, Florida - directly...

A behind the scenes look on Jaws The Revenge with interviews from the cast and crew.

In April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a battlefield, the backdrop to four personal...

A cop, who is losing his sanity, lures his girlfriend and his former partner into the dangers of arson, robbery, and murder.

Ricky Bell, an all-pro running back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who died of a rare muscle disease in the prime of his career. The plot centers on...

Sara, a pregnant woman, is the innocent bystander in a robbery, committed by reluctant criminal, Derek. After being accidentally shot in the robbery,...

The Delivery Boys, a New York squad of breakdancing young men who work for a local pizza place, enter a breakdance contest in the hopes of winning a...

Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars discover that the victim was the son of a...

Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter,...

Bank robbers on the run from the police invade a mansion and take the owners hostage.

An ex-con and break-dancer helps save a neighborhood from a greedy developer while trying to win a rap contest.

A Los Angeles lawyer has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen.