Gang Smashers [a.k.a. Gun Moll] (1938)

Starring:

• Nina Mae McKinney 
• Laurence Criner
• Monte Hawley
• Mantan Moreland 
• Reginald Fenderson 

Storyline
Nina Mae McKinney, an undercover detective for the police, infiltrates the Dalton mob with intentions of bringing them down.

Teacher, Teacher (1969)

Starring:

• Ossie Davis
• David McCallum 
• Billy Schulman 

Storyline:
Hamilton Cade (McCallum) is an alcoholic teacher striving to put his life back together. He accepts a job tutoring an "exceptional child" only to find that young Freddie (Billy Schulman) is mentally retarded. A black man (Ossie Davis) who works for Freddie's father (George Grizzard) also becomes interested in teaching the child, and becomes a second role model for him. 

Almos' A Man (1976)

Starring:

• LeVar Burton 
• Madge Sinclair
• Robert DoQui

Storyline
Although Dave (LeVar Burton, Roots, Dummy) and his family are poor sharecroppers in the Deep South in the 1930's, this 15 year-olds problem is shared by teenagers today: he stands with one foot in adulthood and the other in childhood. “Almos' A Man”, yet still treated like a child, he struggles for an identity. There's one thing, one symbol of manhood, Dave thinks, that could guarantee him instant respect: a gun.

Dave finds a way to buy a pistol and at last, is ready to pull the trigger for the first time, never again will they call him a boy…But, he trembles, the gun overpowers the boy's body and he loses control - his young life forever changed.  Also starring Madge Sinclair (Cornbread, Earl & Me) and Robert DoQui (Coffy).