Harold Nicholas

In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Townsend

The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Don Ameche

Black vaudeville acts are featured in this Vitaphone Pepper Pot short. In addition to those listed in the credits, acts include The 3 Whippets, a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Adelaide Hall

Fass Black, an accomplished black man in Los Angeles, is bullied to play another record labels music at his disco club, but continually refuses...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Poole

Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Robeson

Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Hope

An animated short chronicling the adventures of Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Budd Hulick

Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack Oakie

The Nicholas family home movies capture a golden age of show business -- with extraordinary footage of Broadway, Harlem and Hollywood -- and also...

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Cast: Fayard Nicholas

In the 1940s, the Nicholas Brothers performed a dance routine so seminal it prefigured hip hop by three decades. Contemporary dancers Les Twins...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fayard Nicholas

Musical review. The messenger carrying the master discs of a season drops them, so Flotsam and Jetsam are sent out to collect the stars concerned....

Genre: Music

Cast: Arthur Askey

Usually cast as secret agent/private eye Lemmy Caution, Eddie Constantine plays "Eddie" in The Empire of Night. This time, Constantine is a cabaret...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Constantine

Short featuring musician Eubie Blake and his orchestra, singer Nina Mae McKinney, and young tap dancers Fayard and Harold Nicholas.

Genre: Music

Cast: Eubie Blake

The owner of a shoe polish company sponsors a radio show that showcases black performers. Since his wife's father put up the money to be the sponsor,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Nina Mae McKinney

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Astaire

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chevy Chase

A barber shop owner wins a sweepstake. He remodels his shop and hires Claude Hopkins and his orchestra to play for his customers. Two songs are sung,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Claude Hopkins

Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Montgomery

Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Johnny Downs

When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sonja Henie

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alice Faye

Dazzling appearances by Ursula Andress, Teresa Graves, Gloria Loring, Bobbi Martin, Romy Schneider, Miss United Kingdom, Miss Worlds, The...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bob Hope

Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Sothern

German musical with Caterina Valente and Peter Alexander.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Caterina Valente

The Nicholas Brothers are presented here in a way that reflects the joy and intrinsic goodness that seemed to come from their hearts, and express...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Clarke Peters

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laverne Andrews

Police detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miguel Torruco

A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.

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Cast: Phil Baker

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early...

Genre: Music

Cast: Lena Horne

Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gloria Jean

A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vanessa Williams

Max Washington has just been released from prison after serving time for burglary. He returns to his old hangout, a hoofer club. His old girl friend,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gregory Hines

A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mikhail Baryshnikov

Honest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bruce Cabot

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. ...

Genre: Music

Cast: Edie Adams

Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sidney Poitier

Genre: Crime

Cast: Miguel Torruco

Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oliver Platt

A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Judy Garland

A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.

Genre: Music

Cast: Eddie Cantor

After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Faye

Louis Gossett Jr. takes viewers through a special documentary celebration of the groundbreaking achievements of African-American performers and their...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Donald Bogle

Maurice Hines, a charming, gay African-American entertainer navigates the complications of show business while grieving the loss of his more famous,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maurice Hines

When he loses his lead singer, bandleader Kay Kyser can't find a replacement he likes.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kay Kyser

Christmas themed episode of the colgate comedy hour.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott