Jacob Burns Film Center: His Song – A Harry Belafonte Retrospective

Jacob Burns Film Center: Harry Belafonte Retrospective – Carmen Jones Adapted from the musical Carmen Jones, which was in turn an adaptation of Bizet’s opera Carmen. Harry Belafonte stars as a pilot in training at an all-black Army base during […]

Jacob Burns Film Center: Belafonte Retrospective – Kansas City Robert Altman directs this story of a pair of kidnappings that expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City. With Harry Belafonte, Jennifer Jason […]

Jacob Burns Film Center: Belafonte Retrospective – The Angel Levine Morris Mishkin is an elderly Jewish tailor. Plagued by hard times, he prays to God for help and receives it in the form of a most unusual angel named Levine—a […]

Jacob Burns Film Center: Belafonte Retrospective – The World The Flesh and The Devil A miner trapped in a cave-in resurfaces, and upon discovering mankind has been wiped out in a nuclear holocaust, sets out to find other survivors. Get […]

Jacob Burns Film Center: Belafonte Retrospective – Odds Against Tomorrow In need of quick money, a fallen former cop recruits a hard-bitten ex-con and a debt-ridden nightclub singer to pull off a bank job. But as the animosity between them […]

Jacob Burns Film Center: Belafonte Retrospecitve – BlacKkKlansman Spike Lee’s revered 2018 film tells the story of Stallworth, the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make a name for himself, Stallworth bravely sets […]