Melvin Van Peebles Movies

14-year-old Enid Crowley hates her name and everything about her boring life. All this changes when she becomes a full-time babysitter to a sheltered...

A history of the racially stereotyped portrayal of African Americans in cinema, hosted by film pioneer Melvin Van Peebles.

Satchmo. There are few people in this country - or around the world - who will not recognize that name. Louis Armstrong embodied 20th-century...

A look at the development of film making and its contribution to the social and political times form the perspective of Black film makers.

Turner, a black American soldier, is given three days leave in Paris. Not knowing what to do with himself, he goes to a nightclub where he meets a...

A semi-autobiographical story about an adventurer whose journeys take him from Harlem to the high seas and back again

Maverick director Melvin Van Peebles translates his own satirical novel to the screen with this multi-national portrait of race, class, and...

This twenty-two minute interview with Melvin Van Peebles has the cult filmmaker starting things off by lighting a cigar, which is something he has...

A black man steals to afford to marry the woman he loves. After being released from prison, he returns in time to see his daughter's wedding.

Arrabal's sixth film based on his novel from 1969 with the same name as the movie.

A documentary looking at the making and legacy of The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973).

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronicling the lives of these men and women who, with a...

The second short film Melvin Van Peebles made in San Francisco before decamping for Europe is a striking portrait of a group of day labourers...

A boy sees a 500-franc note under a sewer grate and tries to retrieve it.

A young boy receives a mystical motorcycle that transforms into a woman when he rides it at night.