Richard Pryor

Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever

Don Mischer

Adam Ant, Nick Ashford

Television special taped before a live studio audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on March 25, 1983, and broadcast on NBC on May 16. Highlights include Michael Jackson's performance of "Billie Jean", a Temptations/Four Tops "battle of the bands", Marvin Gaye's inspired speech about black music history and his memorable performance of "What's Going On", and a Jackson 5 reunion.

Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration

Jeff Margolis

Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra

Celebrating Sammy Davis Jr 's 60th anniversary in show business, including musical,comic and dancing performers.

Live at Mister Kelly's

Theodore Bogosian, Ted Bogosian

Bill Kurtis, Лили Томлин

The iconic Mister Kelly’s bedazzled the country by launching superstars like Barbra Streisand, Richard Pryor, Bette Midler, and Steve Martin. It smashed color and gender barriers to put controversial voices on stage and transformed entertainment in America in the '50s, '60s, and ’70s.

Richard Pryor: Live in Concert

Jeff Margolis

Richard Pryor, Jennifer Lee Pryor

Richard Pryor delivers monologues on race, sex, family and his favorite target—himself, live at the Terrace Theatre in Long Beach, California.

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

Robert Trachtenberg

Mel Brooks, Joan Rivers

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live television — with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows — to the film genres he so successfully satirized in Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, and Spaceballs — to the groundbreaking Broadway musical version of his first film, The Producers. The documentary also delves into his professional and personal ups and downs — his childhood, his first wife and subsequent 41-year marriage to Anne Bancroft — capturing a never-before-heard sense of reflection and confession.

Wattstax

Mel Stuart

Richard Pryor, Rufus Thomas

A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage from the concert with footage of the living conditions in the current day Watts neighborhood. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Documentary Film.

Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

Joe Layton

Richard Pryor, Gene Cross

Richard Pryor's stand-up act includes his frank discussion about his freebasing addiction, as well as the infamous night on June 9, 1980 that he caught on fire.

Lost Highway

David Lynch

Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

The Muppet Movie

James Frawley

Jim Henson, Frank Oz

A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there he meets his future muppet crew while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!

The Richard Pryor Show Volume I

Richard Pryor

Blue Collar

Paul Schrader

Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel

Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.

The Richard Pryor Special?

John Moffitt

Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor wanders around the NBC Studio, encountering various eccentrics. Meanwhile, the Reverend James L. White, the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada and others are taping their own segments.

Lily

Bill Davis

Лили Томлин, Alan Alda

TV special starring Lily Tomlin

Blacks and Jews

Deborah Kaufman, Alan Snitow

Arthur Hiller, Salim Muwakkil

This documentary attempts to go beyond the sensationalized media coverage and the stereotypes to examine several key conflicts from the point of view of both Black and Jewish activists.

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

Marina Zenovich

Richard Pryor, Mel Brooks

Mike Epps, Richard Pryor Jr. and others recount the culture-defining influence of Richard Pryor - one of America's most brilliant, iconic comic minds.

The Young Lawyers

Harvey Hart

Jason Evers, Zalman King

Attorney Michael Cannon leaves his Boston law firm to become director of the Neighborhood Law Office, where he guides three law students on a case involving two visiting musicians accused of robbing and beating up a cab driver. TV-pilot that was an ABC Movie of the Week in October of 1969 and then became a TV-series as part of the 1970-71 season.