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African-American filmmaker Gordon Parks had little chance of cracking the all-white Hollywood cinematographers' fraternity in the '50s, despite impeccable credentials as a photojournalist for Life magazine. Parks' entry into feature-length moviemaking came by way of the 1969 adaptation of his own autobiographical work The Learning Tree, w... Continue Bio >>

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Filmography:
2005 How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
2001 Half Past Autumn: The Life and Art of Gordon Parks
2000 Shaft
1986 50 Years of Action!
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