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Howard Rollins (1950–1996) was an American television, film, and stage actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Coalhouse Walker Jr. in Ragtime and Virgil Tibbs on In the Heat of the Night.
Total trailers found: 21
20 November 1981
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
22 March 1983
This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the NAACP.
07 December 1979
An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter a horse to salvage their relationship.
12 May 1992
A real estate agent is shot while trying to sell a rural farm and tries to bring the shooter to justice.
03 March 1986
An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug dealers and pickpockets for a shady crime boss.
01 January 1984
Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.
01 January 1990
A stripper and a vice squad lieutenant become romantically involved in this contemporary drama set in the adult entertainment zone in 1980s Baltimore, Maryland.
23 April 1984
A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.
03 May 1978
Henry Flipper is the first black West Point graduate. Assigned to serve at Fort Davis in Texas, Flipper becomes the object of a conspiracy by his fellow cadets to rid the base of its only black graduate.
01 June 1984
A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom.
16 November 2004
Memories from the making of the classic Milos Forman film "Ragtime".
18 December 1984
Advertising executive, Alex Grier, is fired and is unable to find another position, being over-qualified.
21 October 1986
A police officer is called by F.B.I. to infiltrate into gang of arms smugglers.
25 April 1982
A neighborhood in Brooklyn reacts to the first black families moving into the community.
20 December 1982
12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams dreams of going away with her brother and his bride-to-be on their upcoming honeymoon.
14 September 1984
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base.
01 January 1986
Focuses on young Martin Luther King Jr.'s early encounters with prejudice and how the love and courage of his family moved him to speak out against segregation and become a leader in the civil rights movement.
14 March 1997
At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first time in seven months, so he does - and leaves the meeting right after.
28 January 1981
The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to force him to confess to stealing secret documents while stationed in Orleans, France, in 1961, led Congress to award him $625,000 in damages nearly 20 years later.
01 January 1994
Discusses Malthus's theories of population and the causes of poverty. As film contrasts the 19th century poor in Scotland with today's poor in India, it takes on the international population "establishment", challenging the entrenched view that overpopulation alone is responsible for poverty and environmental destruction.
01 December 1996
During a Kwanzaa celebration, a recovering drug addict who now counsels drug users inspires the residents of a Brooklyn housing project to apply the principles of the holiday to combat violence in their neighborhood.
