All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Delroy Lindo, ranked

From its Blues and Ragtime origins through Swing and into Bebop and Fusion, the evolution of Jazz is chronicled. This journey includes 75 interviews, over 500 pieces of music, and rare, unseen photos and footage.

Malcolm Little is raised in a poor household in rural Michigan by his Caribbean mother and African-American father. When Malcolm is a young boy, their house is burnt down and his father, an activist for black rights, is killed by a chapter of the Black Legion.

Homer Wells, an orphan, grows up in a Maine orphanage directed by kindly, avuncular Dr. Wilbur Larch. Homer, the oldest among the orphans, is very bright, helpful and even-tempered, so Larch trains him in obstetrics and abortions as an apprentice, despite Homer’s never having attended high school.

Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark, finds himself working for Ray Bones Barboni after the death of Palmer’s boss, Momo. Chili and Bones constantly clash, and he orders Chili to Las Vegas collect a debt from Leo Devoe, who faked his death to claim $300,000 in an insurance scam. While in Vegas, Chili picks up a second job to collect a debt from film producer Harry Zimm.

Strike is a 24-hour drug dealer whose days are numbered as time slips away. A significant turning point occurs when the influential local drug lord offers Strike a chance to progress, but this opportunity takes a dark turn when a competing dealer meets a fatal end. Suddenly, Strike finds himself trapped in the crosshairs of two relentless homicide detectives.

Major Vic Deak Deakins and Captain Riley Hale, pilots in the United States Air Force (USAF), are assigned to a secret exercise flying a stealth bomber with two B83 nuclear bombs over the western United States. Rhodes tries to disable the warhead but is killed by the only other search team survivor, Master Sergeant Kelly, who is serving as a mole for Deakins.

The story begins in 1865, at the end of the American Civil War. The ironclad CSS Texas, captained by Mason Tombs, is loaded with the last of the Confederacy’s treasury gold in a final effort to prevent it from being captured by Union forces.