Cicely Tyson – MRQE

Acceptable Risks (TV)

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The manager of a chemical plant and a city manager rise up against their respective bosses to keep a town safe in this ecologically conscientious made-for-TV disaster film. It all begins when the owners of Citichem order the plant manager to enact dangerous cost cuts that compromise the safety of the plant. He protests, but it is to no avail and a worker dies. At the same time, the city manager tries to warn the people that a deadly disaster is imminent, but he ends up gagged by the local politicians. Meanwhile, just when the community is at its most unprepared, a melt-down occurs and the town is drenched in deadly chemicals.

Duplicates (TV)

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A family falls victim to a scientific institute that removes memories and transfers them to a computer.

The Price of Heaven (TV)

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Convinced that he’s entitled to a life of fame and fortune, Korean War vet Jerry Shand (Grant Show) returns home to his fiancee (Lori Loughlin) and pursues a lucrative –if unprincipled — insurance career. But when he meets the elderly client Vesta (Cicely Tyson), she begins to shed light on the destructive path Jerry has chosen to travel. Peter Bogdanovich directs this film set against the backdrop of racial tensions in the American South.

Relative Stranger (TV)

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.

Always Outnumbered (TV)

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.

Heat Wave (TV)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

House of Secrets (TV)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Marion Ravinel is trapped in an abusive spousal relationship. She forms a plan with her husband’s former lover to kill him. However, the outcome turns out to be more than she planned on as she begins to believe that her husband has come back from the dead to get her.

American Masters:: How It Feels to be Free (TVE)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Tells the inspiring story of how six iconic African American female entertainers Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier challenged an entertainment industry deeply complicit in perpetuating racist stereotypes, and transformed themselves and their audiences in the process.

A Lesson Before Dying (TV)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didn’t have the sense to know what he was doing. Nevertheless convicted, he is sentenced to die, but his godmother and the aunt of the local schoolteacher convince school teacher go to the convicted man’s cell each day to try to reaffirm to him that he is not an animal but a man with dignity.

Ms. Scrooge (TV)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Television movie updating Charles Dickens’ story, “A Christmas Carol.” Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.