Movies: Lorraine Hansberry

  • 1961
    A Raisin in the Sun

    A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

    A Raisin in the Sun

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    Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall....

    A Raisin in the Sun
  • 2008
    A Raisin in the Sun

    A Raisin in the Sun (2008)

    A Raisin in the Sun

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    Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a n...

    A Raisin in the Sun
  • 2017
    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart (2017)

    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

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    On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the first-ever black woman to author a play performed on Broadway, she did not shy away from richly drawn characters...

    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
  • 1972
    To Be Young, Gifted and Black

    To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1972)

    To Be Young, Gifted and Black

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    A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries....

    To Be Young, Gifted and Black
  • 1969
    To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words

    To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words (1969)

    To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words

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    Excerpts from the 1969 Off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater of To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry, adapted by Robert Nemiroff, Hansberry's widower, and directed by Gene Frankel....

    To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words
  • 2019
    National Theatre Live: Les Blancs

    National Theatre Live: Les Blancs (2019)

    National Theatre Live: Les Blancs

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    An African country teeters on the edge of civil war. A society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future. Racial tensions boil over. Tshembe, returned home from England for his father’s funeral, finds himself in the e...

    National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
  • 1978
    Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement

    Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement (1978)

    Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement

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    This documentary explores the growth and development of black theatre from its earliest roots, also examining its close ties with the civil rights movement. Included are interviews with veterans of the theatrical world such as James Earl Jones and Ed...

    Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement