Ashton Sanders
Birthday: Born in 1995-10-24 in Carson, California, USA
Deathday: Alive
Ashton Durrand Sanders (born October 24, 1995) is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Teen Chiron in the Academy Award-winning film Moonlight (2016). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ashton Sanders, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Jennifer Hudson Show
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Talented entertainer and newly-minted EGOT Jennifer Hudson takes on the daytime talk show landscape....
Wu-Tang: An American Saga
Character: Bobby Diggs
In the early 1990s in New York, during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, a visionary musician named Bobby Diggs aka The RZA begins to form a super group of a dozen young, black men, who will eventually rise to become one of the unlikeliest success stories in American music history....
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Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Character: Bobby Brown
The joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, the greatest female R&B pop vocalist of all time. Tracking her journey from obscurity to musical superstardom....
Curtains Up
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American auteur David Lynch opens up about the magic of the cinema in this new profile from Stella McCartney. Created by Lynch's son Austin Lynch and fine artist Case Simmons, the creative duo behind Los Angles-based studio Tête-à-Tête, their film offers us a rare insight into Lynch behind the lens, teaching us about his theory of film as well as his lifelong pursuit of transcendental meditation....
The Retrieval
Character: Will
On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man....
The Kids Are Alright
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"The Kids Are Alright" album film...
Straight Outta Compton
Character: Kid
In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as ...
Moonlight
Character: Chiron
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality....
Captive State
Character: Gabriel Drummond
Nearly a decade after occupation by an extraterrestrial force, the lives of a Chicago neighborhood on both sides of the conflict are explored. In a working-class Chicago neighborhood occupied by an alien force for nine years, increased surveillance and the restriction of civil rights have given rise to an authoritarian system -- and dissent among the populace....
The Last Virgin in LA
Character: Josh
When Millie discovers she's the last virgin in LA, things get out of hand....
The Equalizer 2
Character: Miles Whittaker
Robert McCall, who serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, embarks on a relentless, globe-trotting quest for vengeance when his former partner is murdered....
Native Son
Character: Bigger Thomas
A young black man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever....
Dead Women Walking
Character: Troy
Nine vignettes depict the stages leading to execution for women on death row....
All Day and a Night
Character: Jah
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....
Judas and the Black Messiah
Character: Jimmy Palmer
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul....
We Home
Character: Javan
When two desperate boys force their way into the home of a privileged college student, they discover what it's like to live without struggle....
The Things They Carried
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The story of the young men of Alpha Company, a platoon of soldiers sent to fight on the ground during the Vietnam War. Trekking from village to village amidst chaos and confusion, the young men struggle to navigate a growing labyrinth of physical, mental, and emotional terrains as they battle for the survival of their sanity, innocence, and each other. An adaptation of Tim O'Brien's book of the same name....
L.A. Noir
Character: Actor
Step inside the suspenseful world of film noir in a series of short virtual-reality films, and see what its like to be in a scene with the year’s best actors....