Glynn Turman Movies

Black girl from rich family loves white boy from poor family.

Russell B. Parker, a former vaudeville hoofer, is a man of big dreams but small ambitions. He hardly works at all in fact, often spending the time...

Two black brothers in a traveling minstrel show in the early part of the twentieth century have two different goals. One brother is determined to...

Richard Pryor wanders around the NBC Studio, encountering various eccentrics. Meanwhile, the Reverend James L. White, the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin...

In this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the force before his retirement investigates the murder of...

Documentary film on events that happened on August 28th in African-American history, shown at the Smithsonian African-American History Museum.

Preaching To The Pastor is a musical comedy about the controversy going on at High And Mighty Missionary Baptist Church. The Pastor has a dark secret...

A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.

On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the...

A television drama directed by Maya Angelou. In 1975, the accomplished writer became the first African American woman to join the Directors Guild of...

After paying his debt to society, a convicted man is redeemed, called by God to become the pastor of a disgraced church and lead it back to glory....

A documentary on making the movie JD'S REVENGE.

In Sweden, young US soldier, Willy, goes a.w.o.l and teams up with other deserters in Stockholm. There, he meets leftist radical beauty, Inga, who...

A serious health scare ignites John Thomas, an insurance salesman in his 50s, to take a closer look at his life. Motivated by a misguided obsession...

A documentary film about the life, times and experiences of eight theatre artists and a theatre critic in the theatre of New York City.

Actor Glynn Turman makes his Broadway debut at 12 years old in the original production of “A Raisin in the Sun” opposite Sidney Poitier...