Wendell Pierce Movies

The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and an AIDS activist in the black community.

Set among the cane fields of rural Louisiana, Burning Cane follows a deeply religious mother struggling to reconcile her convictions of faith with...

Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new...

After making his name alongside Ray Charles, Motown’s Funk Brothers, and Charles Mingus, trumpeter Marcus Belgrave chose Detroit over the...

A gangster makes an employee pose as a doctor to prevent his troubled girlfriend from getting a lobotomy.

Follows Chris Daniels, a man who receives a call that his daughter has been kidnapped. The kidnappers demand that he completes a series of different...

Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special combines elements...

When a family celebration brings relatives and friends together for a weekend, old secrets, unexpected relationships, and long-standing grudges...

Adapted from a stage play by Christopher Shinn, the debut feature from Joshua Sanchez is a provocative rumination on race and sexuality set on a...

A visual, 4-D experience of the battles of World War II featuring stories, archival footage and advanced special effects.

After growing up during the tumultuous 1960s, ex-Black Panther Marcus returns to his home in Philadelphia in 1976 and reconnects with Pat, the widow...

Jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams was a genius ahead of her time. From child prodigy to "Boogie-Woogie Queen" to groundbreaking composer to mentoring...

A lesbian teenager unsuccessfully juggles multiple identities to avoid rejection from her friends and family. Mounting pressure from home, school,...

A retrospective documentary of the first four seasons of the acclaimed series The Wire.

A charismatic basketball star (Holt McCallany) is accused of rape. A lawyer (Ken Olin) in need of a big win is brought in to get the star off. The...

In Becoming Frederick Douglass, acclaimed director Stanley Nelson and co-director Nicole London bring to life the story of an American icon. Using...

an intimate look at the traditions associated with New Orleans’ music and the preservation of those traditions through the work of local...

intergenerational family drama is set between Brooklyn and Jamaica’s Blue Mountains and centers on Jabari, a gifted but defiant Brooklyn...

Two kids on the run from a scary life come across two adults running away from their past.

Grace tries to be the perfect mother and TV producer but finds trouble in juggling both.