Movies: Gbenga Akinnagbe

A young mad genius attempts to 'hack the human mind' in order to fix humanity....

A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States....

Kevin Carson is a young man living in the projects who has to survive a three-day weekend after his opportunistic neighbors find out he's holding a winning lottery ticket worth $370 million....

When prison boxer George "The Hammer" Martin is offered freedom for fighting in the 1984 Olympics, he says no in order to protect the woman he loves, forcing his best friend to learn the true meaning of loyalty....

Members of a once-promising hip-hop group, now in their late 30s, struggle with regret, disappointment, and change on Election Night 2008....

A match made in stoner heaven turns into a love triangle gone awry when Lyle can't decide which matters most, Nina or Mary Jane....

A documentary exploring the role of the media in relation to the acclaimed series The Wire....

In 1875, Katherine's life is shattered when her beloved husband Caleb falls victim to a murder orchestrated by the nefarious Colonel Davis. Alone and overwhelmed, Katherine’s path crosses with John Scobell, a Black man with a troubled past as a forme...

Having recently escaped a brutal assault at the hands of psycho Frank, Rebekah Lakin finds herself a shadow of who she once was. The constant state of fear and anxiety she now lives in brings about frequent hallucinations, paranoia and insomnia....

The story of a man suffering from mental illness who attempts to rebuild his life....

A young law student, grieving for his dying mother, struggles to decide whether he should kill his unfaithful step-father....

A crime anthology film based on George Pelecanos' book of the same title....

Short film about a police raid gone horribly wrong, featuring music by Pharoahe Monch....

When his brother disappears, mentally disabled Langston Bellows (Gbenga Akinnagbe) is left without a protector in Brooklyn's housing projects. Now under the control of his abusive mother (Alfre Woodard) Langston must take his future into his own hand...

Experience Shakespeare’s comedic masterpiece from the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. Set in South Harlem, the play tells the story of the trickster Falstaff and the wily wives who outwit him in a celebration of Black joy, laughter and vita...

Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network's most guarded secrets....

An underprivileged, gifted young black man from Newark reaches Yale University, only for shadows and injustices from his past to threaten his future....

Lucy is a fearless young Black girl whose dream of becoming an astronaut collides with the extraordinary moment NASA astronauts descend on her small Canadian mining town. As Lucy and her friends navigate the complexities of their world, they discover...

A desperate mechanic's plan to escape his past unravels when his sister returns home and two violent debt collectors close in....

Wyatt Cenac heads to Brooklyn to share his observations on the borough that's the backdrop for three sitcoms and a reality show about cheesemongers....