Sankofa (1993)

Starring:

• Kofi Ghanaba
• Oyafunmike Ogunlano
• Alexandra Duah
• Nick Medley
• Mutabaruka
• Afemo Omilami
• Reggie Carter
• Mzuri
• Jimmy Lee Savage
• Hasinatu Camara
• Jim Faircloth
• Stanley Michelson
• John A. Mason

Storyline

The story begins with Mona (Oyafunmike Ogunlano), an African American model on a fashion shoot at the former slave castles in Cape Coast, Ghana.  Mona undergoes a journey back in time and place to a slave plantation in North America where she becomes Shola, a house slave, and experiences the suffering of slavery firsthand.  In becoming Shola and returning to her past culture and heritage, Mona is able to recover her lost slave identity and confront her ancestral experience.  Shola’s interactions with her fellow slaves are marked with humanity and dignity, most notably with Shango (Mutabaruka), a rebellious field slave, and Nunu (Alexandra Duah), one of the few slaves to remember her life in Africa before being stolen by Europeans.

—Allyson Nadia Field

Losing Isaiah (1995)

Starring:

• Halle Berry
• Jessica Lange
• David Strathairn

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An African-American baby, abandoned by his crack addicted mother is adopted by a white social worker and her husband. Several years later, the baby's mother finds out her son is not dead, as she thought before and goes to court to get him back.

El Diablo (1990)

Starring:

• Anthony Edwards
• Louis Gossett Jr.
• John Glover

Storyline
When the notorious outlaw El Diablo kidnaps a schoolgirl, her teacher, an Easterner named Billy Ray, decides to rescue her. Incompetent to track her alone, Billy Ray enlists the aid of an unscrupulous gunman.