Movies: Donnie Simpson

In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along the wa...

Russell Walker is a young, successful manager of rap performers, handling acts for the Krush Groove label, including Run-DMC and The Fat Boys. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and Russell needs more money to press more copies, he borrows it from a st...

Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond....

TV short about Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era....