The Courage to Love (2000, TV Movie)

Starring:

• Vanessa Williams
• Diahann Carroll
• Gil Bellows
• Karen Williams
• Lisa Bronwyn Moore
• David La Haye
• Cynda Williams
• Stacy Keach
• Eddie Bo Smith Jr.
• Graeme Somerville
• Kevin Jubinville
• Susannah Hoffmann
• Jean-Louis Roux
• Lise Roy
• Raven Dauda

Storyline

In pre-Civil War New Orleans, Vanessa Williams portrays the beautiful African-American daughter of a wealthy white plantation owner and his kept mistress. Fighting her family's wishes, society's rules, and rampant racism, she rejects the traditions of an arranged marriage and sets out on a journey fraught with danger and forbidden desires. 

John Henry (1986, TV Movie)

Starring:

• Danny Glover
• Lynn Whitfield
• Tom Hulce
• Lou Rawls
• Julian Christopher
• Barry Corbin
• Thelma Houston
• E'Lon Cox
• David Donham
• Jadili Johnson
• Christopher Burton
• Rick Reynolds
• Lemoria English

Storyline

"On the night John Henry was born, lightning bolts shaped like nine-pound hammers filled the sky," and from that day on, John Henry was known as the extraordinary boy who became an extraordinary man. Acclaimed film actor Danny Glover stars as John Henry, the American folk hero who became the famous steel-driving man of American folklore and song.