Glynn Turman — Actor (10)
Light It Up (1999) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Light It Up
director: Craig Bolotin actor: Usher / Vanessa Williams
other title: Una voce per gridare / Generación perdida
On a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in an armed standoff with the NYPD. At the school, classrooms freeze, teachers come and go, resources are scant.
The River Niger (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The River Niger
director: Krishna Shah actor: James Earl Jones / Cicely Tyson
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.
Out of Bounds (1986) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Out of Bounds
other title: La morte alle calcagna / Heisse Hölle L.A.
Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup at the airport, Daryl finds himself in possession of a drug cache, which a ruthless drug dealer wants back. The dealer murders Daryl's brother and the small town boy ends up all alone in the big city, being pursued by both the drug dealer and the police, who suspect him of the murder.
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2024) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Percy Jackson and the Olympians
other title: Viaggio di un Eroe: Making of di Percy Jackson e gli dei dell'Olimpo / En helts rejse: Tilblivelsen af Percy Jackson og olymperne
Alongside a passionate cast and crew, follow Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri as they step into worlds fit for gods, battle unforgettable creatures, and perform legendary stunts.
Freedom Song (2000) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Freedom Song
other title: Canciones de libertad / Freiheitsmarsch
Freedom Song is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle of African Americans to register to vote in the fictional town of Quinlan. In the midst of the Freedom Summer, a group of high school students in the small town are eager to make grassroots changes in their own community. The young activists meet resistance not only from white southerners, but from their parents, who have experienced firsthand the violence that can result from speaking out. As high school students band together with the support of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, they make strides in registering African-American voters and gaining awareness for their cause.
Cooley High (1975) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Cooley High
In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the guys when they are falsely arrested in connection with stealing a Cadillac. We follow their lives through to the dramatic end of high school.