Curtis Mayfield Movies

A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz. Now, they must...

Priest, a suave top-rung New York City drug dealer, decides that he wants to get out of his dangerous trade. Working with his reluctant friend,...

Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the...

How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to...

Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one...

Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s.

With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather...

A concert film highlighted by performances from Marvin Gaye, Jerry Butler, and Roberta Flack.

A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block...

Movin' On Up is the definitve documentary on one of the most important artists and greatest groups of all time.

A documentary celebrating the men whose vocal stylings have carried the torch for soul across six decades.. Featuring footage of Brenton Wood...

This is a look into the darkest corners of the BBC’s music archives for a reminder of songs by the likes of The Las, The Mock Turtles, Joan...

An educational video exploring drug addiction, including footage of real-life addicts going through rehab therapy.

Curtis Mayfield was one of the dominant figures of soul music for three decades. This performance, filmed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1987,...

The Guitar is the uncrowned king of rock ‘n’ roll instruments. Live, without any safety net, our Guitar Heroes make their instruments...

This Concert film from 1988 captures the full power of one of the giants of black American music in performance and, as a bonus, also includes an...