
August 21, 1932 · 94 years old
Melvin Van Peebles (born Melvin Peebles; August 21, 1932 – September 21, 2021) was an American actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer. His feature film debut, The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967), was based on his own French-language novel La Permission and was shot in France, as it was difficult fo…

Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.

A maverick skydiver and a former KGB agent team up to stop the Russian mafia from stealing gold.

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.

Sparks fly when Wade Walker crashes the Peeples annual reunion in the Hamptons to ask for their precious daughter Grace's hand in marriage.

An orthodox Jewish blaxploitation hero saves Hanukkah from the clutches of Santa Claus' evil son.

In 1898 Cuba, five Buffalo Soldiers find a gold cache, desert and return to America where they help defend a black town from the KKK, all the while trying to avoid capture by lawmen and military authorities alike.

Based on a graphic novel, this apocalyptic adventure centers on a man who must reverse the cataclysmic conditions of his world.

Jeff Gerber, a racist white man, wakes up one morning to discover that he has become black.

A dramatized account of the story of The Black Panther Party of Self-Defense.

Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States is edited together by a contemporary Swedish filmmaker.

In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.

Documentary covering a Stax Records-sponsored all-day concert at the 1972 Watts Summer Festival with performances by Stax Records artists such as Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, The Staples Singers, and more.

Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.

A black American soldier is demoted for fraternizing with a white girl in France.

Two men embark on a music-steeped journey through the American South.

Black police officer discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.

Chief, a former US Marshall, has fallen on hard times after he led his team on a raid that went horribly wrong. As he struggles to pick up the pieces, he soon learns that there may be a larger conspiracy at hand.

In April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a battlefield, the backdrop to four personal intertwined stories. In Gold Mountain, Jeff Lee and his parents run Good Neighbor Liquor in...

As an African American family and friends gather in an apartment for a house party, two imps take human form in order to break up the party.

Feature-length documentary on renegade filmmaker, novelist, musician and theater impresario, Melvin Van Peebles.

The struggle between a father and son at odds over the youth's career choice.

In 1971, Melvin Van Peebles, an independent filmmaker far ahead of his time, released a mind-blowing piece of avant-garde cinema - Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. It broke all the rules, inventing its own grammar and proclaimin...