Al Sharpton
Acting
Born October 3, 1954 · New York City, New York, USA
Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, television/radio talk show host and a former White House adviser for President Barack Obama. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts his own radio talk show, Keepin' It Real, and he makes regular guest appearances cable news television. In 2011, he was named the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation, a nightly talk show. In 2015, the program was shifted to Sunday mornings. Sharpton's supporters praise "his ability and willingness to defy the power structure that is seen as the cause of their suffering" and consider him "a man who is willing to tell it like it is". Former Mayor of New York City Ed Koch, a one-time foe, said that Sharpton deserves the respect he enjoys among black Americans: "He is willing to go to jail for them, and he is there when they need him." President Barack Obama said that Sharpton is "the voice of the voiceless and a champion for the downtrodden." A 2013 Zogby Analytics poll found that one quarter of African Americans said that Sharpton speaks for them. His critics describe him as "a political radical who is to blame, in part, for the deterioration of race relations". Sociologist Orlando Patterson has referred to him as a racial arsonist, while liberal columnist Derrick Z. Jackson has called him the black equivalent of Richard Nixon and Pat Buchanan. Sharpton sees much of the criticism as a sign of his effectiveness. "In many ways, what they consider criticism is complimenting my job," he said. "An activist's job is to make public civil rights issues until there can be a climate for change." (Wikipedia)
Films (68)
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
2024
Atrocity Inc.
2024
WSJ Opinion Documentary: "Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited
2024
South to Black Power
2023
When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story
2023
Loudmouth
2022
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM
2022
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
2022
Rudy! A Documusical
2022
The First Wave
2021
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage
2021
Woman in Motion
2021
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
2020
Uncle Tom
2020
American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
2020
Saving OurSelves: BET COVID-19 Relief Effort
2020
The Black Godfather
2019
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
2018
United We Stand: The Ali Summit
2018
Satan & Adam
2018
I Am MLK Jr.
2018
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
2018
Prince: the Last Year of a Legend
2018
Maynard
2017
Get Me Roger Stone
2017
A Tale of James Brown
2016
Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice
2015
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
2014
91 Bullets in a Minute
2014
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
2014
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014
Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
2013
Koch
2013
The Central Park Five
2012
The After Party: The Last Party 3
2011
On the Shoulders of Giants
2011
Looking for Lenny
2011
Beating Justice: The Martin Lee Anderson Story
2011
Race
2010
One Night in Vegas
2010
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
2010
Good Hair
2009
If I Die Tonight
2009
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
2009
Madea Goes to Jail
2009
Abraham Obama
2009
Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez
2009
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
2008
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
2008
The Black List: Volume One
2008
The Jena 6
2007
Out From Ali's Shadow: The Larry Holmes Story
2006
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
2005
Pursuit of Equality
2005
Street Fight
2005
Celsius 41.11
2004
James Brown: Soul Survivor
2003
Mr. Deeds
2002
Bamboozled
2000
Let's Talk
2000
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999
Cold Feet
1999
Run For Cover
1995
The Last Party
1993
Malcolm X
1992