The best Avery Brooks’s movies

Avery Brooks

Avery Brooks

02/10/1948 (75 años)
Today we present the best Avery Brooks’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Avery Brooks’s movies.
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American History X

American History X
8.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/07/1998
  • Character: Bob Sweeney
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.

The Big Hit

The Big Hit
6/10
Affable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-ending business. So, when he and his fellow assassins kidnap the daughter of an electronics mogul, it's naturally Melvin who takes the fall when their prime score turns sour. That's because the girl is the goddaughter of the gang's ruthless crime boss. But, even while dodging bullets, Melvin has to keep his real job secret from his unsuspecting fiancée, Pam.

15 Minutes

15 Minutes
6.1/10
When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."

The Captains

The Captains
6.8/10
The Captains is a feature length documentary film written and directed by William Shatner. The film follows Shatner as he interviews the other actors whom have portrayed Starship captains within the illustrious science-fiction franchise.

What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
8.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 12/10/2018
  • Character: Himself
A documentary exploring the legacy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the reasons it went from the black sheep of Star Trek to a beloved mainstay of the franchise, and a brainstorm with the original writers on what a theoretical eighth season of the show could look like.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin
6.2/10
The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.

Spenser: Ceremony

Spenser: Ceremony
6.4/10
  • Release: 23/07/1993
  • Character: Hawk
Spenser is hired to locate April Kyle, the missing daughter of Harry Kyle, millionaire and candidate for Governor. With the assistance of Hawk, Spenser travels from Boston's "Combat Zone" to Providence and the heart of child pornography in search of one seemingly unimportant runaway whom nobody wants found.

Roots: The Gift

Roots: The Gift
6.7/10
On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.

Finnegan Begin Again

Finnegan Begin Again
7.1/10
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.

Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes

Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes
6.1/10
When Spenser (Robert Urich), his psychologist girlfriend, Susan Silverman (Barbara Williams), and his right-hand man, Hawk (Avery Brooks), investigate a brutal murder in a quaint New England town, they discover plenty of illegal activity and cocaine. This 1994 made-for-television movie brings many of the beloved characters from the 1980s drama series (based on the books by Robert B. Parker) back to the small screen.

The Ballad of Big Al

The Ballad of Big Al
8.1/10
A BBC documentary sequel to the acclaimed miniseries Walking with Dinosaurs, The Ballad of Big Al chronicles the life of one Allosaurus fragilis named Big Al.

Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier

Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier
7.2/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 19/02/2007
  • Character: Himself
This History Channel special examines Christie's 40th Anniversary auction of the franchise's most recognizable film and television memorabilia, and features interviews with cast, crew and fans.

Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends

Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/2003
  • Character: Himself
The making of the iconic Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode.

Solomon Northup's Odyssey

Solomon Northup's Odyssey
7.3/10
This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born freeman who works as a carpenter and is also a part time musician. One day he is approached by some men who want him to play for them. However, that is not their intention; they have kidnapped him and sold him into slavery. Now he has to endure the hardships that he has been spared because of his status as a freeman. And his family who don't know what happened to him is searching for him but where do they go? And Solomon also wishes to let them know where he is so that they could get him but unfortunately no one believes his story or is willing to help him.

Spenser: The Judas Goat

Spenser: The Judas Goat
6.3/10
  • Release: 01/12/1994
  • Character: Hawk
Spenser is hired out by Hugh Dixon to track down the killers of his wife and daughters. He and Hawk are drawn into a huge plot involving assassination attempts on African leader Winston Boyko by some racist terrorist named Paul.

Moments Without Proper Names

Moments Without Proper Names
7.5/10
Gordon Parks' poetic autobiography

Spenser: A Savage Place

Spenser: A Savage Place
6.2/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 20/05/1995
  • Character: Hawk
Candy Sloane, a news reporter that Spenser used to date, hires him out as backup while she investigates a credit card fraud ring that might be operating out of a previously-bankrupt movie company

Deep Space Nine: A Bold Beginning

Deep Space Nine: A Bold Beginning
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 25/02/2003
  • Character: Himself

The Greatest Places

The Greatest Places
6.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 30/06/1998
  • Character: Narrator (voice)
A journey to seven of the most geographically dynamic locations on earth. The film features spectacular land forms, diverse wildlife and the people and cultures indigenous to these places. Distinct geographic places include the great island of Madagascar, home to unique limestone pinnacles and the playful lemur; and the greatest desert—the Namib—home of the largest sand dunes in the world that tower majestically over its western border, the Atlantic Ocean. Other locations featured are the great icecap of Greenland, Iguazu Falls in Brazil, the Okavango Delta in Botswana, the Chang Tang Plateau in Tibet, and the Amazon River in South America.

God v. Satan: The Final Battle

God v. Satan: The Final Battle
6.4/10
Christians, Jews and Muslims believe there will a final battle between God and Satan. Believers and scholars are interviewed. Artwork and staged reenactments depict the end times.

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