Passing Glory
Feb 21, 1999 | IMDB 5.8
100 min Watch NowDrama
A true story of a priest (Andre Braugher) in New Orleans who formed a group of black players and challenged an all-white prep school basketball team in the 1960's. Eventually events like these signaled the pivotal turn in the games' history leading to the integration in today's sport. Directed by Steve James (Hoop Dreams), these basketball players didn't just make shots, they made history.
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The Reckoning
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IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 2002
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IMDB 3 | Sep , 2012
Stefan Book is Pastor of the Hamburger St. Pauli Church for Schanze, Karo and Kiez. He sees it as his life's task to devote himself to the fallen and stranded. In view of the flight of the young, deportation-threatened African Adoma Fauré into his church, the chummy clergyman proves to be a serious opponent of asylum policy. The fate of the girl allows him to fight for the girl's residence permit without fear of authorities or sanctions of the municipal board. Book grants her church asylum and reaches the limit of its legal possibilities.Waking the Dead
IMDB 6.1 | Mar , 2000
A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.Inside Moves
IMDB 6.2 | Dec , 1980
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IMDB 7.2 | Sep , 1984
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IMDB 6.1 | Dec , 1932
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IMDB 5.4 | Oct , 2002
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IMDB 8 | Aug , 2009
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IMDB 3 | Jan , 1958
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IMDB 5.2 | May , 2014
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IMDB 6.8 | Oct , 1979
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IMDB 6.4 | Jan , 2022
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IMDB 6.4 | Feb , 2004
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IMDB 3.2 | Nov , 2006
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IMDB 7.1 | Apr , 2009
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IMDB 7.2 | Aug , 2019
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IMDB 6.6 | Aug , 2006
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IMDB 6 | Jan , 2006
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