Forest Whitaker

A film based on the life of jazz great Charlie "Bird" Parker.

This is the story of a young boy who grew up to become president of South Africa. His lifelong quest was to establish equality for people of all colors.

Farmworkers, the foundation of our fresh food industry, are routinely abused and robbed of wages. FOOD CHAINS reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of large buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets.

William Garnett (Forest Whitaker) is an ex-con starting life over as a recently converted Muslim. With the help of his determined parole officer (Brenda Blethyn), he gets a job, meets an interesting woman, and keeps his head down. But the town sheriff, Bill Agati (Harvey Keitel), won't leave him alone since Garnett was responsible for killing his deputy. As Agati puts pressure on him, and his old partners in crime hassle him, Garnett slowly starts...

Follows the events in Cecil Gaines' life and in the country as he works as a White House butler under eight administrations.

After alien ships arrive at locations around Earth, a linguist is called in to translate and understand the alien language.

When a student in Los Angeles, whose dream is to attend Harvard, attends an underground party, he has the chance to go from geek to dope.

Once Jennie had everything. She had two bowls to eat from, two pillows, and for cold weather, a red wool sweater. She even had a master who loved her. But Jennie didn't care. In the middle of the night she packed everything she had in a black leather bag with gold buckles and looked out of her favorite window for the last time... Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life follows Jennie's surreal, suspenseful and unexpectedly moving journey...

Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent Uganda (a British colony until 1962) became a breeding...