Oprah Winfrey

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa.

Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery

David Attenborough looks at the extraordinary ends to which animals and plants go in order to survive. Featuring epic spectacles, amazing TV firsts and examples of new wildlife behaviour.

Dir. Martha Holmes · With David Attenborough

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six months.

Dir. Tyler Perry · With Kerry Washington, Sam Waterston, Susan Sarandon

Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with alcoholism and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way.

Dir. Lee Daniels · With Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo

An intimate look into the life of icon Quincy Jones. A unique force in music and popular culture for 70 years, Jones has transcended racial and cultural boundaries; his story is inextricably woven into the fabric of America. Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before working on pop music and film scores. He moved easily between musical genres, producing major pop hits of the early 1960s and serving as an arranger and conductor for several collaborations in the same time period.

Dir. Rashida Jones, Alan Hicks · With Quincy Jones, Rashida Jones, Tom Hanks

Join former first lady Michelle Obama in an intimate documentary looking at her life, hopes and connection with others.

Dir. Nadia Hallgren · With Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Phoebe Robinson

A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.

Dir. Ron Clements, John Musker · With Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Jim Cummings

At the age of ten, Henry James Hermin, a boy who was conceived in a petri-dish and raised by his feminist mother, follows a string of Post-It notes in hopes of finding his biological father.

Dir. Dennis Lee · With Michael Sheen, Toni Collette, Jason Spevack

Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.

Dir. Gary Winick · With Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi

The life and tragic death of Whitney Houston.

Dir. Nick Broomfield, Rudi Dolezal · With Whitney Houston, Cissy Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown

An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.

Dir. George C. Wolfe · With Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne, Renée Elise Goldsberry

After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...

Dir. Jonathan Demme · With Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Kimberly Elise

After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.

Dir. Ava DuVernay · With Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon