Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1985
Romance, Comedy
TV Episode
1h 36m
James Baldwin's literary gem is adapted for the screen in this spellbinding film about three generations of an African-American family struggling to find footing in America, a place that's both a land of opportunity and difficulty. Tracing the lineage's move from the South to the heart of Harlem, the film tells the story of a boy yearning for the love of a distant stepfather. Stars Paul Winfield, Alfre Woodard, Ruby Dee and Ving Rhames. (Netflix)
Directed by:
Stan Lathan
29 total credits
Credits include: Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly, Dave Chappelle: For What It's Worth, Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones, Dave Chappelle: The Closer and The Age of Spin: Dave Chappelle Live at the Hollywood Palladium
Writers:
Leslie Lee
7 total credits
Credits include: Axe!, Go Tell It on the Mountain, The Killing Floor, The Vernon Johns Story and Go Tell It on the Mountain
13 total credits
Was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist, and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century United States. Novels are notable for the personal way they explored questions of identity as well as for the way they mined complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups could be assumed. Died Dec' 01, 1987.
Starring:
Giancarlo Esposito
142 total credits
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (born April 26, 1958) is an American film and television actor and director. Esposito is known for his portrayal of FBI agent Mike Giardello on the TV crime drama Homicide: Life on the Street. That role reflected both his black and Italian heritage. He played this role from 1998-1999 until the series' cancellation. The character's father Al is portrayed as subject to colorism, something Esposito's character practiced in School Daze...(Wikipedia)
102 total credits
Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhames (born May 12, 1959) is an American actor best known for his work in Bringing Out the Dead, Pulp Fiction, Baby Boy, Don King: Only in America, and the Mission: Impossible film series. (Wikipedia)
63 total credits
Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist. She is perhaps best known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun (1961) and the film American Gangster (2007) for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has won a Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Drama Desk, SAG and SAG Lifetime Achievement Award and the National Medal of Arts, among others awards...(wikipedia)
90 total credits
Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She has been nominated once for an Academy Award and Grammy Awards, 17 times for Emmy Awards (winning four), and has also won a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is known for her role in films such as Cross Creek, Miss Firecracker, Grand Canyon, Passion Fish, Primal Fear, Star Trek: First Contact, Miss Evers' Boys, K-PAX, Radio, Take the Lead and The Family That Preys...(wikipedia)
57 total credits
Credits include: The Terminator, Cliffhanger, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Dennis the Menace and Presumed Innocent
42 total credits
Credits include: White Men Can't Jump, Showtime, Made of Honor, Vampire in Brooklyn and Renaissance Man
76 total credits
Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder, known professionally as C. C. H. Pounder (styled "CCH Pounder"), is a Guyanese-American film and television actress. She has appeared in numerous films, made-for-television films, television miniseries and plays, and has made guest appearances on notable television shows. She stars as Mo'at, the Na'vi Tsahik (spiritual leader) in the film Avatar. Pounder starred in the film Bagdad Café, and has made smaller appearances in many other successful films...(Wikipedia)
10 total credits
Credits include: Some Kind of Hero, Heroes, Big Shots, Go Tell It on the Mountain and The Women of Brewster Place
24 total credits
Credits include: The Omega Man, Tales from the Hood, The New Centurions, From a Whisper to a Scream and Uptown Saturday Night
7 total credits
Credits include: Def by Temptation, Go Tell It on the Mountain and Go Tell It on the Mountain
3 total credits
Credits include: Lady in White, Go Tell It on the Mountain and Go Tell It on the Mountain
4 total credits
Credits include: Go Tell It on the Mountain, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Man and Boy and For Love of Olivia
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Directed by:
Stan Lathan 29 total credits
Credits include: Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly, Dave Chappelle: For What It's Worth, Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones, Dave Chappelle: The Closer and The Age of Spin: Dave Chappelle Live at the Hollywood Palladium
Writers:
Leslie Lee 7 total credits
Credits include: Axe!, Go Tell It on the Mountain, The Killing Floor, The Vernon Johns Story and Go Tell It on the Mountain
13 total credits
Was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist, and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century United States. Novels are notable for the personal way they explored questions of identity as well as for the way they mined complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups could be assumed. Died Dec' 01, 1987.
Starring:
Giancarlo Esposito 142 total credits
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (born April 26, 1958) is an American film and television actor and director. Esposito is known for his portrayal of FBI agent Mike Giardello on the TV crime drama Homicide: Life on the Street. That role reflected both his black and Italian heritage. He played this role from 1998-1999 until the series' cancellation. The character's father Al is portrayed as subject to colorism, something Esposito's character practiced in School Daze...(Wikipedia)
102 total credits
Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhames (born May 12, 1959) is an American actor best known for his work in Bringing Out the Dead, Pulp Fiction, Baby Boy, Don King: Only in America, and the Mission: Impossible film series. (Wikipedia)
63 total credits
Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist. She is perhaps best known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun (1961) and the film American Gangster (2007) for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has won a Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Drama Desk, SAG and SAG Lifetime Achievement Award and the National Medal of Arts, among others awards...(wikipedia)
90 total credits
Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She has been nominated once for an Academy Award and Grammy Awards, 17 times for Emmy Awards (winning four), and has also won a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is known for her role in films such as Cross Creek, Miss Firecracker, Grand Canyon, Passion Fish, Primal Fear, Star Trek: First Contact, Miss Evers' Boys, K-PAX, Radio, Take the Lead and The Family That Preys...(wikipedia)
57 total credits
Credits include: The Terminator, Cliffhanger, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Dennis the Menace and Presumed Innocent
42 total credits
Credits include: White Men Can't Jump, Showtime, Made of Honor, Vampire in Brooklyn and Renaissance Man
76 total credits
Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder, known professionally as C. C. H. Pounder (styled "CCH Pounder"), is a Guyanese-American film and television actress. She has appeared in numerous films, made-for-television films, television miniseries and plays, and has made guest appearances on notable television shows. She stars as Mo'at, the Na'vi Tsahik (spiritual leader) in the film Avatar. Pounder starred in the film Bagdad Café, and has made smaller appearances in many other successful films...(Wikipedia)
10 total credits
Credits include: Some Kind of Hero, Heroes, Big Shots, Go Tell It on the Mountain and The Women of Brewster Place
24 total credits
Credits include: The Omega Man, Tales from the Hood, The New Centurions, From a Whisper to a Scream and Uptown Saturday Night
7 total credits
Credits include: Def by Temptation, Go Tell It on the Mountain and Go Tell It on the Mountain
3 total credits
Credits include: Lady in White, Go Tell It on the Mountain and Go Tell It on the Mountain
4 total credits
Credits include: Go Tell It on the Mountain, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Man and Boy and For Love of Olivia
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