Avery Brooks
Also Known As: اوری بروکس
Biography: Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948) is an American actor, director, singer, narrator and educator. He is best known for his television roles as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk, and as Dr. Bob Sweeney in the Academy Award–nominated film American History X. Brooks was born in Evansville, Indiana, and raised in Gary, Indiana. He attended Oberlin College, where he studied music and theater. After graduating from Oberlin, he moved to New York City to pursue his acting career. Brooks's first professional acting role was in the play "The Great White Hope" in 1970. He went on to appear in a number of Broadway productions, including "The Wiz" and "A Chorus Line". He also starred in the television miniseries "Roots" in 1977. In 1993, Brooks was cast as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The series ran for seven seasons, and Brooks's performance as Sisko was critically acclaimed. He won a Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television in 1995. After Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ended, Brooks continued to work in television and film. He starred in the series "Shark" from 2006 to 2008, and he appeared in the films "American History X" and "The Score". Brooks is also a talented singer and musician. He has released two albums, "Song of My People" and "The Way I Feel". He is also a gifted director, and he has directed a number of theater productions and television episodes.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Evansville, Indiana, USA
Birthday: October 02, 1948
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Gender: Male
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American History X
Overview: Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-01
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15 Minutes
Overview: When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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Drain the Ocean
Overview: This is a world you have never seen before - a world normally hidden under miles of water, the ocean floor. We'll remove the water using CGI animation, revealing a landscape of unimaginable scale with features more dramatic than anything on dry land.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-09
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The Greatest Places
Overview: A journey to seven of the most geographically dynamic locations on earth. The film features spectacular land forms, diverse wildlife and the people and cultures indigenous to these places. Distinct geographic places include the great island of Madagascar, home to unique limestone pinnacles and the playful lemur; and the greatest desert—the Namib—home of the largest sand dunes in the world that tower majestically over its western border, the Atlantic Ocean. Other locations featured are the great icecap of Greenland, Iguazu Falls in Brazil, the Okavango Delta in Botswana, the Chang Tang Plateau in Tibet, and the Amazon River in South America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-30
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The Big Hit
Overview: Affable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-ending business. So, when he and his fellow assassins kidnap the daughter of an electronics mogul, it's naturally Melvin who takes the fall when their prime score turns sour. That's because the girl is the goddaughter of the gang's ruthless crime boss. But, even while dodging bullets, Melvin has to keep his real job secret from his unsuspecting fiancée, Pam.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-24
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For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
Overview: This High Definition, PBS miniseries uses letters, diaries, speeches, journalistic accounts, historical text and military records to document and acknowledge the sacrifices and accomplishments of African-American service men and women since the earliest days of the republic.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Savage Sun
Overview: This documentary explains the workings of the sun, the body at the centre of the solar system, with a core heat of 30 million degrees. Savage Sun reveals the most spectacular images of the sun ever gathered, captured from many spacecraft and observatories. Internal temperatures can reach millions of degrees Celsius and surface explosions leap tens of thousands of kilometers into space. It is the most awe inspiring and fearsome body in our solar system, yet, without it, life on earth could not exist.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Emissary
Overview: Three years after his wife died at the hands of the Borg and following the Cardassian withdrawal from the planet Bajor, Commander Benjamin Sisko and a new crew of Starfleet and Bajoran officers take command of an abandoned Cardassian space station and make an incredible discovery that will change the galaxy and Sisko's future.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-04
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior
Overview: When a Klingon fleet under General Martok arrives at the station ostensibly to protect the Alpha Quadrant from the Dominion, Sisko recruits Lieutenant Commander Worf to discover the Klingons' true intentions.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-02
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The Captains
Overview: The Captains is a feature-length documentary film written and directed by William Shatner. The film follows Shatner as he interviews the other actors who have portrayed starship captains in the Star Trek franchise.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-22
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Roots: The Gift
Overview: On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-11
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Spenser: Ceremony
Overview: Spenser is hired to locate April Kyle, the missing daughter of Harry Kyle, millionaire and candidate for Governor. With the assistance of Hawk, Spenser travels from Boston's "Combat Zone" to Providence and the heart of child pornography in search of one seemingly unimportant runaway whom nobody wants found.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-23
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Spenser: A Savage Place
Overview: Candy Sloane, a news reporter that Spenser used to date, hires him out as backup while she investigates a credit card fraud ring that might be operating out of a previously-bankrupt movie company
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-20
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Spenser: The Judas Goat
Overview: Spenser is hired out by Hugh Dixon to track down the killers of his wife and daughters. He and Hawk are drawn into a huge plot involving assassination attempts on African leader Winston Boyko by some racist terrorist named Paul.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-01
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For the Love of Spock
Overview: The life of Star Trek's Mr. Spock — as well as that of Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played Mr. Spock for almost fifty years —written and directed by his son, Adam.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-09
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Mysteries of Ancient China
Overview: Archeologists discover a pit filled with terracotta warriors buried to protect the grave of the First Emperor of China.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-21
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The Ernest Green Story
Overview: Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-17
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Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Overview: This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born free man who works as a carpenter and is also a part time musician. One day he is approached by some men who want him to play for them. However, that is not their intention; they have kidnapped him and sold him into slavery. Now he has to endure the hardships that he has been spared because of his status as a free man. And his family who don't know what happened to him is searching for him but where do they go? And Solomon also wishes to let them know where he is so that they could get him but unfortunately no one believes his story or is willing to help him.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-10
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes
Overview: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Behind the Scenes was a fifty minute documentary hosted by Terry Farrell that looked at the creation of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, specifically its pilot episode "Emissary". Written by Stephen R. Wolcott and directed by Donald R. Beck, the documentary first aired on 4 January 1993 as a syndicated special of the by Paramount Television produced current media affairs show Entertainment Tonight, at the time the franchise's primary publicity outlet for anything live-action Star Trek related. In the documentary, Farrell (Jadzia Dax) takes the viewer on a tour around the Deep Space 9 sets. The feature also has interviews with the cast, producers, writers and other production staff members and takes a look at the making of "Emissary".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-04
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Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes
Overview: When Spenser (Robert Urich), his psychologist girlfriend, Susan Silverman (Barbara Williams), and his right-hand man, Hawk (Avery Brooks), investigate a brutal murder in a quaint New England town, they discover plenty of illegal activity and cocaine. This 1994 made-for-television movie brings many of the beloved characters from the 1980s drama series (based on the books by Robert B. Parker) back to the small screen.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-02
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Overview: The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-14
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The New Explorers: The Science of Star Trek
Overview: How real is the 'science' in Star Trek?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-18
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Finnegan Begin Again
Overview: A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-24
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God v. Satan: The Final Battle
Overview: Christians, Jews and Muslims believe there will a final battle between God and Satan. Believers and scholars are interviewed. Artwork and staged reenactments depict the end times.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-19
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What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Overview: A documentary exploring the legacy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the reasons it went from the black sheep of Star Trek to a beloved mainstay of the franchise, and a brainstorm with the original writers on what a theoretical eighth season of the show could look like.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-12
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Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier
Overview: This History Channel special examines Christie's 40th Anniversary auction of the franchise's most recognizable film and television memorabilia, and features interviews with cast, crew and fans.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-19
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Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends
Overview: The making of the iconic Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Deep Space Nine: A Bold Beginning
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-02-25
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Africa's Elephant Kingdom
Overview: This film explores an elephant clan's search for food and water as seen through the eyes of one old bull.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-08
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Moments Without Proper Names
Overview: Moments Without Proper Names makes Parks makes himself the subject, tracing his development as a person and an artist through an hourlong, non-narrative abstract self-portrait that combines Parks’s photographs with his musical compositions and scenes from his films. It also features footage of Parks, plus interpretations of his personal reminiscences performed by actors Avery Brooks, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Joe Seneca.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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