Jesse Jackson

Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. is an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted "the most important black leader".

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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Played Self (archive footage)

Average Rating

7.6

213 votes

Release Date

Jul 02, 2021

4 years ago
LA 92

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Average Rating

7.7

133 votes

Release Date

Apr 28, 2017

9 years ago
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

Played Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

Average Rating

7.3

95 votes

Release Date

Mar 12, 1982

44 years ago
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

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Average Rating

6.8

85 votes

Release Date

Jan 11, 2021

5 years ago
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

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Average Rating

7.0

62 votes

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Apr 23, 2013

13 years ago
4 Little Girls

Played Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition

Average Rating

7.2

47 votes

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Jul 09, 1997

29 years ago
Uncle Tom

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Average Rating

7.5

30 votes

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Jun 19, 2020

5 years ago
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

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Average Rating

7.5

25 votes

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Apr 23, 2021

5 years ago
BaadAsssss Cinema

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Average Rating

5.9

23 votes

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Aug 14, 2002

23 years ago
Fantastic Lies

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Average Rating

7.2

19 votes

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Mar 13, 2016

10 years ago
Michael Jackson Memorial

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Average Rating

8.0

18 votes

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Jul 07, 2009

16 years ago
Uptight

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Average Rating

6.6

15 votes

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Dec 28, 1968

58 years ago
We Are Many

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Average Rating

6.7

15 votes

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Jun 08, 2014

12 years ago
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

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Average Rating

6.0

14 votes

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Sep 12, 2009

16 years ago
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

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Average Rating

7.1

11 votes

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Mar 24, 1970

56 years ago
Route One/USA

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Average Rating

7.3

11 votes

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Sep 10, 1989

37 years ago
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound

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Average Rating

6.8

10 votes

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Oct 14, 2009

16 years ago
Last Party 2000

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Average Rating

6.1

10 votes

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Nov 02, 2001

24 years ago
A Man's Story

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Average Rating

6.9

8 votes

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Oct 08, 2011

14 years ago
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History

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Average Rating

8.2

8 votes

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Oct 01, 2016

9 years ago
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

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Average Rating

6.4

7 votes

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Sep 21, 2002

23 years ago
MLK: The Assassination Tapes

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Average Rating

7.4

5 votes

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Feb 12, 2012

14 years ago
Save the Children

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Average Rating

6.4

5 votes

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May 13, 1973

53 years ago
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry

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Average Rating

5.6

4 votes

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Jun 21, 2009

17 years ago
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over

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Average Rating

6.5

4 votes

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Sep 11, 2021

4 years ago
Chicago at the Crossroad

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4.0

2 votes

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Jun 01, 2019

6 years ago
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

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Average Rating

8.5

2 votes

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Jan 16, 2007

19 years ago
Loudmouth

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Average Rating

6.0

2 votes

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Dec 09, 2022

3 years ago
South to Black Power

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Average Rating

3.5

2 votes

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Nov 28, 2023

2 years ago
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham

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Average Rating

6.0

2 votes

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Jan 01, 1993

33 years ago
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2

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Average Rating

9.0

2 votes

Release Date

Jun 02, 1973

53 years ago
I Am MLK Jr.

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Average Rating

9.5

2 votes

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Apr 04, 2018

8 years ago
Ballou

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Average Rating

8.0

1 votes

Release Date

Sep 11, 2008

17 years ago
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

Average Rating

10.0

1 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1997

29 years ago
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy

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Average Rating

6.0

1 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1983

43 years ago
In Remembrance of Martin

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Average Rating

9.0

1 votes

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Feb 08, 1986

40 years ago
Decade

Played Self

Average Rating

7.0

1 votes

Release Date

Dec 09, 1989

36 years ago
Nationtime

Played Self

Average Rating

8.0

1 votes

Release Date

Nov 01, 1972

54 years ago
The Journey of the African-American Athlete

Played Self (archive footage)

Average Rating

10.0

1 votes

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Feb 12, 1996

30 years ago
September First, Twenty-Twenty

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Average Rating

9.0

1 votes

Release Date

May 10, 2021

4 years ago
Bernie Blackout

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Average Rating

7.0

1 votes

Release Date

May 13, 2020

5 years ago
Punch 9 for Harold Washington

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0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Oct 13, 2021

4 years ago
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

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Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

May 05, 2021

4 years ago
University, Inc.

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Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

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Sep 10, 1999

26 years ago
The Subtext of a Yale Education

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0.0

0 votes

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Sep 24, 1999

26 years ago
The Soul of Stax

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0.0

0 votes

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Jan 01, 1994

32 years ago
Stax, le label soul légendaire

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0.0

0 votes

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Jul 26, 2019

6 years ago
Operation Breadbasket

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0.0

0 votes

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Jul 07, 1969

57 years ago
Crashing the Party

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0.0

0 votes

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Jul 21, 2016

9 years ago
The Road to Mass Incarceration

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0.0

0 votes

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Jun 13, 2018

7 years ago
El otro Rey de Chicago

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0.0

0 votes

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Apr 18, 2022

4 years ago
A Matter of Respect

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0.0

0 votes

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Jan 01, 1980

46 years ago
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey

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0.0

0 votes

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Aug 15, 1988

38 years ago
Anecdotes about Fidel

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0.0

0 votes

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Jan 01, 2009

17 years ago
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America

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0.0

0 votes

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Apr 04, 2018

8 years ago
A Decade of Struggle

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0.0

0 votes

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Jun 01, 1980

46 years ago
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

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0.0

0 votes

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Mar 24, 2018

8 years ago
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story

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0.0

0 votes

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Jan 27, 2020

6 years ago
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.

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0.0

0 votes

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Mar 01, 2021

5 years ago
We Are Universal

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0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Jan 01, 1971

56 years ago
Dear Mister President

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Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

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