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Terence Blanchard

Born March 13, 1962 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (age 64)

Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American jazz trumpeter and composer. He has also written two operas and more than 80 film and television scores. Blanchard has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Original Score for BlacKkKlansman (2018) and Da 5 Bloods, both directed by Spike Lee, a frequent collaborator. Blanchard started his career in 1980, playing in the Lionel Hamp…

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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues · 2022

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

MovieDocumentaryMusic

Never-before-heard personal recordings and archival footage tell the story of Louis Armstrong's life from his perspective. From musical phenom to civil rights activist to world-renowned artist, this illuminating film shows sides of Armstrong few have seen.

The Princess and the Frog

The Princess and the Frog · 2009

The Princess and the Frog

MovieAnimationRomance

A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.

By Any Means

By Any Means · 2026

MovieHistoryCrime

In 1960s Mississippi, a young Black FBI agent is forced to partner with a notorious mafia hitman to investigate a wave of brutal civil rights murders.

25th Hour

25th Hour · 2002

MovieCrimeDrama

On the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to his downfall in a city still reeling from 9/11.

The Woman King

The Woman King · 2022

MovieActionDrama

The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.

Original Sin

Original Sin · 2001

MovieThrillerDrama

A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.

Inside Man

Inside Man · 2006

MovieCrimeDrama

When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.

She Hate Me

She Hate Me · 2004

MovieComedyDrama

Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.

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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues · 2022

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

MovieDocumentaryMusic

Never-before-heard personal recordings and archival footage tell the story of Louis Armstrong's life from his perspective. From musical phenom to civil rights activist to world-renowned artist, this illuminating film shows sides of Armstrong few have seen.

Music

The Princess and the Frog

The Princess and the Frog · 2009

The Princess and the Frog

MovieAnimationRomance

A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.

Louis' Trumpet Playing (voice)

By Any Means

By Any Means · 2026

MovieHistoryCrime

In 1960s Mississippi, a young Black FBI agent is forced to partner with a notorious mafia hitman to investigate a wave of brutal civil rights murders.

Original Music Composer

25th Hour

25th Hour · 2002

MovieCrimeDrama

On the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to his downfall in a city still reeling from 9/11.

Original Music Composer

The Woman King

The Woman King · 2022

MovieActionDrama

The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.

Original Music Composer

Original Sin

Original Sin · 2001

MovieThrillerDrama

A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.

Original Music Composer

Inside Man

Inside Man · 2006

MovieCrimeDrama

When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.

Original Music Composer

She Hate Me

She Hate Me · 2004

MovieComedyDrama

Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.

Original Music Composer

Clockers

Clockers · 1995

MovieCrimeDrama

Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer. Detective Rocco Klein doesn’t buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.

Original Music Composer

Harriet

Harriet · 2019

MovieDramaHistory

The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.

Conductor

BlacKkKlansman

BlacKkKlansman · 2018

MovieCrimeComedy

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

Orchestrator

Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever · 1991

MovieDramaRomance

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.

Original Music Composer

Da 5 Bloods

Da 5 Bloods · 2020

Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.

Original Music Composer

Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride · 2022

Father of the Bride

MovieRomanceComedy

A father comes to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American family.

Original Music Composer

Mo' Better Blues

Mo' Better Blues · 1990

Mo' Better Blues

MovieDramaMusic

Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.

Musician

Cadillac Records

Cadillac Records · 2008

Cadillac Records

MovieDramaHistory

The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.

Original Music Composer

Next Friday

Next Friday · 2000

A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison. But trouble soon follows and the suburbs will never be the same.

Original Music Composer

Malcolm X

Malcolm X · 1992

MovieDramaHistory

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.

Original Music Composer

Bruised

Bruised · 2021

MovieDramaAction

Jackie Justice is a mixed martial arts fighter who leaves the sport in disgrace. Down on her luck and simmering with rage and regret years after the fight, she's coaxed into a brutal underground fight by her manager and boyfriend Desi and grabs the attention of a fight league promoter who promises Jackie a life back in the Octagon. But the road to redemption becomes unexpectedly personal when Manny - the son she gave up as an infant - shows up at her doorstep. A triumphant story of a fighter who reclaims her power, in and out of the ring, when everyone has counted her out

Original Music Composer

Gia

MovieRomanceDrama

Gia Carangi meteorically rises to modeling fame in the late 1970s but becomes overconsumed by persistent loneliness and drug addiction.

Original Music Composer

The Salton Sea

The Salton Sea · 2002

MovieCrimeDrama

After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.

Musician

Eve's Bayou

Eve's Bayou · 1997

Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.

Original Music Composer

One Night in Miami...

One Night in Miami... · 2020

One Night in Miami...

In the aftermath of Cassius Clay's defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to change the course of history in the segregated South.

Orchestrator

Get on the Bus

Get on the Bus · 1996

MovieHistoryAdventure

Fifteen Black men gather in South Central LA to take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in October 1995. Among the attendees are an eclectic set of characters, including a laid-off aircraft worker, a man whose at-risk son is handcuffed to him, a Black Republican, a former gangsta, a Hollywood actor, a cop of mixed racial background, and a white bus driver. All make the trek discussing issues surrounding the March, including manhood, religion, politics, sexuality, and race.

Original Music Composer

They Call Me Magic

They Call Me Magic · 2022

They Call Me Magic

SeriesDocumentary

Earvin “Magic” Johnson is an icon for the ages—from humble beginnings to the Dream Team to business titan. Featuring interviews with President Obama, Larry Bird, Pat Riley, and more, this docuseries charts the life and career of a legend.

Original Music Composer

Perry Mason

Perry Mason · 2020

SeriesDramaMystery

Set in 1932 Los Angeles, the series focuses on the origin story of famed defense lawyer Perry Mason. Living check-to-check as a low-rent private investigator, Mason is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and suffering the effects of a broken marriage. L.A. is booming while the rest of the country recovers from the Great Depression — but a kidnapping gone very wrong leads to Mason exposing a fractured city as he uncovers the truth of the crime.

Original Music Composer

Treme

Tremé takes its name from a neighborhood of New Orleans and portrays life in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane. Beginning three months after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and other New Orleanians struggle to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture.

Swagger

Swagger · 2021

A basketball prodigy must navigate a maze of pressure if he's going to overcome the odds against him and learn what it truly means to have swagger.

Original Music Composer

Shots Fired

Shots Fired · 2017

SeriesCrimeDrama

A media storm sets off when an African-American cop kills a white teenager in a small North Carolina town.

Original Music Composer

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts · 2006

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

SeriesDocumentary

Spike Lee's award-winning documentary follows the events that preceded and followed Hurricane Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans in 2005.

Music

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise · 2010

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise

SeriesDocumentary

Spike Lee returns to New Orleans five years after Katrina to see how the ambitious plans to reinvent the Crescent City are playing out.

Original Music Composer

NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½

NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½ · 2021

NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½

SeriesDocumentary

An unprecedented, sweeping portrait of New Yorkers as they rebuild and rebound, from a devastating terrorist attack through the ongoing global pandemic, weaving together visual imagery and first-hand accounts from a variety of New Yorkers.

Original Music Composer

A Girl Thing

A Girl Thing · 2001

SeriesComedyDrama

An NYC shrink sees four different women with different issues - attraction to another woman, friction between 3 sisters, cheating husband, and wanting revenge after being fired.

Original Music Composer