Norman D. Golden II

Après avoir été le témoin d'un meurtre, le petit Devon Butler intègre la brigade de police. Malin, facétieux, connaissant sur le bout des doigts les procédures policières, il fait équipe avec Nick McKenna : flic aigri qui a toujours détesté les enfants. Ensemble, ils vont tenter de démasquer le tueur.

Irish immigrant Tommy Shaughnessy leaves 19th-century New York City for Kansas and becomes a small-town sheriff.

The devastating story of brothers Lafayette and Pharoah Rivers, children of the Chicago ghetto, is powerfully told here by a Wall Street Journal reporter who first met the boys in 1985 when they were 10 and 7, respectively. Their family includes a mother, a frequently absent father, an older brother, and younger triplets. We witness the horrors of growing up in an ill-maintained housing project tyrannized by drug gangs and where murders and shootings frequently occur.

Made especially for the HBO cable network, this well-wrought feature is comprised of three short stories by three noted black American authors, each of which is directed by a respected black director.

In the 1950s, the Ween family live and work on land that was promised to their family. The landowners, the Appletree family, use the promise of the land to keep the family working for them, putting the transfer of the land in doubt.

Produit par Francis Ford Coppola, ce film pour la TV conte l'aventure d'Ismaël, un jeune marin engagé à bord d'un imposant baleinier, le Pequod. Il va vite découvrir que ce voyage n'a rien d'ordinaire car le navire est dirigé par le Capitaine Achab, un homme redoutable obsédé par la quête d'une gigantesque baleine blanche responsable de l'amputation de sa jambe droite...