Gunn, Moses 1929-1993

Overview

Works:	162 works in 453 publications in 7 languages and 12,756 library holdings
Genres:	Drama History Film adaptations Television mini-series Children's films Fantasy films Juvenile works Blaxploitation films Television adaptations Biographical television programs
Roles:	Actor, Performer, Narrator, Author
Classifications:	PN1997, 791.4372

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Moses Gunn

Contemporary Black biography, Profiles from the international Black community by Gale Research Inc( )
A Hand is on the gate theater stills collection by Bert Andrews( Visual )
Negro Ensemble Company photograph collection by Negro Ensemble Company( Visual )
Gunn, Moses : Actor by Martin Quigley( )
Moses Gunn( )

Moses Gunn finally gets master's at KU( )
He had the lightest touch in a heavy town ... Cornbread, Earl and me : an American International release( Book )
The First breeze of summer television stills collection( Visual )
[Biographical sketch of Moses Gunn]( )
Nelson Sullivan Video Collection by Nelson Sullivan( )
Parks, George by Michigan( )
Gunn, Moses by Michigan( )

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Most widely held works by Moses Gunn

Roots by John Erman( Visual )

19 editions published between 1981 and 2016 in English and held by 2,786 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era

The NeverEnding story by Wolfgang Petersen( Visual )

35 editions published between 1984 and 2014 in 5 languages and held by 2,072 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Join the young warrior Atreyu and the faith of a young boy, Bastian, as they battle the unknown of 'The Nothing' to save the creatures of Fantasia and their Childlike Empress

Shaft by Gordon Parks( Visual )

56 editions published between 1970 and 2018 in 7 languages and held by 1,377 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Detective John Shaft is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenage daughter and finds himself up against some Mafia chieftains who want to take over a chunk of the black underworld's uptown territory

Ragtime by Miloš Forman( Visual )

27 editions published between 1981 and 2017 in 6 languages and held by 792 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City

Heartbreak Ridge by Warner Brothers( Visual )

8 editions published between 1986 and 2010 in English and held by 624 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Eastwood plays "Gunny" Highway, a grizzled U.S. Marine Corps lifer who, as he begins his last tour of duty before mandatory retirement, sees the bumpy road his life has taken become even more complicated

The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton( Visual )

8 editions published between 1990 and 2003 in English and held by 578 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A story about the secrets walled within an old house reaches back to the days of slavery and underground railroads

The women of Brewster Place by Joyce Baucom( Visual )

2 editions published between 2001 and 2011 in English and held by 471 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mattie Michael, whose life has been plagued by misfortunes, is alone in a ghetto tenement on Brewster Place. She gradually unites the other tenement women to help them struggle for a new life

Brother Future by Anne E Eskridge( Visual )

7 editions published between 1992 and 2014 in English and held by 446 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A slick inner-city youth is knocked unconscious and wakes up to find he has been transported back through time to 1822 Charleston, S.C., where he is taken captive as a slave

Rollerball by Norman Jewison( Visual )

14 editions published between 1975 and 2016 in English and Spanish and held by 428 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In a dystopic future world run entirely by a few powerful corporations, the brutal sport of rollerball has taken the place of both warfare and traditional athletic competition. The greatest player in the history of rollerball, Jonathan E, receives pressure from these corporations to retire. When he refuses, both his life and his sport descend into chaos and bloodshed

Cornbread, Earl and me by Laurence Fishburne( Visual )

15 editions published between 1974 and 2016 in English and held by 391 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

When a promising high school basketballer (Cornbread) is accused of rape and kill him, it is up to his 11-year old brother Wilford and his pal Earl to find the courage to speak up and clear Cornbread's name

Perfect harmony( Visual )

3 editions published in 2003 in English and Undetermined and held by 276 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Set in South Carolina during the 1950's, two boys form a friendship in spite of the racial barriers that divide the town

Black brigade by Black Brigade( Visual )

17 editions published between 1991 and 2006 in English and held by 223 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A rednecked officer is put in charge of a squad of Black troops charged with taking an important bridge from the Nazis

Amityville II : the possession by Hans Holzer( Visual )

4 editions published between 1982 and 2013 in English and held by 205 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The spirits in a haunted house cause a son to kill his entire family. Disc includes wide and full screen versions of the film

Shaft's big score by Gordon Parks( Visual )

14 editions published between 1972 and 2000 in English and held by 199 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Private eye John Shaft runs afoul of the underworld as he investigates a friends murder

First breeze of summer by Leslie Lee( Visual )

8 editions published between 1976 and 2003 in English and held by 190 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Deals with the conflicts between a stern, hard-working father and his two discontented sons. Also tells the story of the man's elderly mother who recalls, through flashbacks the romances of her youth with three different men who all abandoned her

Amazing Grace( Visual )

5 editions published between 1974 and 2015 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 136 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A black pious church-going widow and grandmother takes over the political campaign of a neighbor running for mayor of Baltimore, transforming him from a white man's pawn into a serious challenger of Baltimore's blue-blood establishment

Black pioneers in American history( Recording )

7 editions published between 1968 and 1972 in English and held by 130 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Autobiographical narratives of Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Forten, Susan King Taylor and Nat Love

The Killing floor( Visual )

5 editions published between 1984 and 1990 in English and held by 71 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This story tells of events that led to the Chicago race riots of 1919. A young black sharecropper leaves the South during World War I and becomes a laborer in the Chicago stockyards, and, along with other little-known stockyard workers of different ethnic backgrounds, he attempts to form an interracial industrial union in the face of growing conflict

The best of friends ; Eagle in a cage( Visual )

2 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 54 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In 1924, George Bernard Shaw was introduced to Dame Laurentia McLachlan, a Benedictine nun at the Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire, England. Along with their mutual friend, Sydney Cockerell, director of Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, the trio enjoyed twenty-five years of letters, literary debate and laughter. Relive their vigorous discussions on everything from the existence of God, to the finer points of tango dancing. Eagle in a cage: A school-teacher-turned-governor of a small island finds greatness thrust upon him when that island, St. Helena, becomes a place of exile for Napoleon

The Ninth Configuration( Visual )

4 editions published between 1988 and 2014 in English and held by 53 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In an experimental government center for troubled Vietnam veterans, the inmates run the asylum. One works on an adaptation of Shakespeare--for dogs. Another fancies himself a caped superhero. Still others masquerade as frogmen, nurses, nuns, pirates, doctors. Yet Colonel Vincent Kane, the psychiatrist in charge, eyes all with a stoic reserve. Maybe too stoic: there's a mystery here. And its final resolution is like a thunderclap

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