Dennis Tate

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

A video recording of a New York Shakespeare Festival 1979 stage production of Coriolanus with an all-black and Hispanic cast. Producer Joseph Papp intended to provide professional opportunities for actors of minority ethnic backgrounds. A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.

In late 1960s New York, a group of radical student activists plan to bomb the office buildings of corporations that do business with Latin American dictators. But when they contact a known terrorist and bombing specialist, the FBI gets on their trail.

An airport redcap works hard to get his family out of the ghetto, only to discover that his son has sickle-cell anemia.