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  • TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004)
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    Video | 100 min | Documentary
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004)
Not Rated
Video | 100 min | Documentary

The black image on television changed American culture. This two-hour program includes rare footage, memorabilia, photographs and exclusive interviews from the actors/writers/producers whose personal journeys created television history.
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Jan 20, 2004 (United States)

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119 cast members
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Muhammad Ali
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John Amos
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Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
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Desi Arnaz
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Pearl Bailey
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Lucille Ball
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Harry Belafonte
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Willie Best
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Cindy Birdsong
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Georg Stanford Brown
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H. Rap Brown
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James Brown
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Wren T. Brown
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Cab Calloway
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Diahann Carroll
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Ray Charles
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Nat 'King' Cole
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Gary Coleman
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Michael Constantine
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Bill Cosby
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Heshimu Cumbuka
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Billy Daniels
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Sammy Davis Jr.
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Ossie Davis
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Ruby Dee
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James Edwards
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Stepin Fetchit
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Redd Foxx
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Joe Frazier
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Marvin Gaye
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Whoopi Goldberg
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Teresa Graves
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David Alan Grier
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Moses Gunn
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Arsenio Hall
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Lloyd Haynes
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Lena Horne
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Jermaine Jackson
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Marlon Jackson
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Michael Jackson
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Tito Jackson
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Eddie Kendricks
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B.B. King
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Martin Luther King
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Martin Lawrence
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Alec Lovejoy
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The Marvelettes
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Michael McCary
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Hattie McDaniel
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Tim Moore
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Mantan Moreland
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Nathan Morris
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Tia Mowry
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Tamera Mowry-Housley
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Eddie Murphy
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Denise Nicholas
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Sidney Poitier
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Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
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Richard Pryor
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Daphne Reid
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Tim Reid
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Howard Rice
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Paul Robeson
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Esther Rolle
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Diana Ross
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David Ruffin
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BernNadette Stanis
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The Temptations
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Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas
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Robert Townsend
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Chris Tucker
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Ike Turner
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Tina Turner
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Cicely Tyson
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Karen Valentine
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Jimmie 'JJ' Walker
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Fredi Washington
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Clarence Williams III
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Spencer Williams
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Mary Wilson
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Paul Winfield
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