Van Peebles's résumé is long and varied, boasting movie, television and music credits. But he is perhaps best known for New Jack City (1991), an inner-city crime thriller in which he also starred. At the time of its release, the film was the highest-grossing feature from an African-American director.
Van Peebles paid homage to his father with Baadasssss!, a quasi-documentary about the making of the elder Van Peebles's landmark film and the mountains he had to move to get it made. Baadasssss! garnered an Independent Spirit Award nod, among other honors.
AddSoloThe Pentagon designed robot soldier Solo (Mario Van Peebles) to carry out the government's most dangerous and top-secret operations throughout the world. Solo, however, has been programmed to think for himself -- which leads to his unwillingness to kill innocent bystanders. After ruining a covert... Read More
AddBaadasssss!Mario Van Peebles pays homage to his father, Melvin, by playing him in this account of how the famous director made his 1970s opus Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, about a black man who rises up against the injustices of white cops. By all accounts, it was a difficult shoot, and the determined... Read More
Add All21 Jump Street: Season 3Although they come from different backgrounds, the police officers headquartered at 21 Jump Street have one unifying characteristic: They can all pass for high school and college-age students, allowing them to work undercover. The third season of this late-1980s series -- the Fox network's first... Read More
AddFull EclipseMax (Mario Van Peebles) is a good cop in a bad city. But when his life begins a downward spiral, he becomes a prime candidate for a new elite crime-fighting force -- a group of super-cops injected with a serum that turns them into werewolves. Max is lured into the group by a sexy officer (Patsy... Read More
AddCrown HeightsIn the summer of 1991, racial tensions between African Americans and Hasids in a Brooklyn community reached a boiling point when a Jewish man accidentally killed a black child with his car. This dramatization centers on two unlikely alliances that explosive summer: one between a Hasidic rabbi (Howie... Read More
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