The Black Stallion (
1979) | IMDb:
7.4
While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.
Directed by:
Carroll Ballard
Porgy and Bess (
1959) | IMDb:
7
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
Starring:
Sidney Poitier
,
Dorothy Dandridge
,
Sammy Davis Jr.
,
Pearl Bailey
,
Brock Peters
,
Diahann Carroll
Produced by:
Samuel Goldwyn
Unconquered (
1947) | IMDb:
6.8
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.
Starring:
Gary Cooper
,
Paulette Goddard
,
Howard Da Silva
,
Boris Karloff
,
Cecil Kellaway
,
Ward Bond
Produced by:
Cecil B. DeMille