While many film fans may not be familiar with Bill Duke's name, they most certainly recognize his face. Dating back to the 1970s, Duke has appeared in a number of popular films, including “Car Wash”, “American Gigolo”, “Commando”, “Predator”, and “X-Men: The Last Stand”. Fewer still might be aware of Duke's extraordinary accomplishments off-screen, as a talented director, producer, entrepreneur, and humanitarian. “Bill Duke:...

A nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent. While there she turns the convent choir into a "soulful chorus of swingin' sisters." The sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity Whoopi Goldberg returns as the lounge singer who goes undercover as a nun to help an ailing inner-city school

Praised by The Village Voice as the most "clear-eyed account of union organizing on film," The Killing Floor tells the little-known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards. The screenplay by Obie Award-winner Leslie Lee, based on an original story by producer Elsa Rassbach, traces the racial and class conflicts seething in the city's giant slaughterhouses, and the brutal efforts of management to divide...

When three life-long friends--Esther, Doris and Lucille--suddenly find themselves middle-aged widows, they discover the transition from mating to dating is a tricky proposition at best, and that starting over takes more effort the second time around. Although this trio of newly-eligible ladies is an added attraction on the over-50 singles circuit, they quickly find that the harvest years have produced a fallow field of suitable single men. But, among...

"In Search of the Last Action Heroes" is the most comprehensive retrospective of the Action film genre ever made.

An attorney takes on a case to sue the Catholic Church for discrimination against a woman who is desperate to become a priest. As the trial unfolds and divine tradition is challenged, danger unfolds as extremists plot to stop the heresy.