Thunder Soul USA, 2011, 131 min Directed by Mark Landsman - In Houston, Texas in the late 1960s, musician and composer Conrad O. Johnson, widely known as "Prof", took a job as Music Director at the predominantly black Kashmere High School where he would go on to transform the school's struggling jazz band into a full-fledged funk powerhouse. The Kashmere High School Stage Band and their dynamic leader would soon become legendary and world-renowned. Presented by Jamie Foxx, THUNDER SOUL follows the extraordinary alumni from Houston's storied Kashmere High School Stage Band, who return home after 35 years to play a tribute concert for the 92- year-old "Prof," their beloved band leader who broke the color barrier and transformed the school's struggling jazz band into a world-class funk powerhouse in the early 1970s.
Brown Babies – Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story is a powerful new documentary which tells the story of six so- called "brown babies" born in postwar occupation Germany. They were born to German women and African-American soldiers. As illegitimate, biracial, bicultural children who were unwanted by enemy nations, their lives were tragic. For the first time Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story reveals this little known remarkable piece of history through the compelling life stories of the children and their birth parents.
Claudine USA, 1974, 92 min - The film tells the story of Claudine Price (Diahann Carroll), a single Black Harlem mother, living on welfare with six children, who finds love with a garbage collector, Rupert Marshall (James Earl Jones), who she calls "Roop". The pair's relationship becomes complicated because of a number of factors.