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Ellis Haizlip ensures that the Revolution would be televised with \u0022SOUL!,\u0022 America\u0027s first \u0022Black Tonight Show.\u0022 From 1968 to 1973, the public-television variety show SOUL!, guided by enigmatic producer and host Ellis Haizlip, offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics--voices that had few other options for national exposure, and, as a result, found the program an improbable place to call home. The series was among the first to provide expanded images of African Americans on television, shifting the gaze from inner-city poverty and violence to the vibrancy of the Black Arts Movement. With participants\u0027 recollections and illuminating archival clips, Mr. SOUL captures a critical moment in culture whose impact continues to resonate, and an unsung hero whose voice we need now more than ever, to restore the SOUL of a nation.","wins":19,"nominations":12,"casts":[{"name":"Sidney Poitier","code":"nm0001627","characters":"Self"},{"name":"Michael Jackson","code":"nm0001391","characters":"Self"},{"name":"Blair Underwood","code":"nm0005516","characters":"Narration"},{"name":"Harry Belafonte","code":"nm0000896","characters":"Self"},{"name":"Diahann Carroll","code":"nm0140792","characters":"Self"},{"name":"Stevie Wonder","code":"nm0005567","characters":"Self"},{"name":"Anna Maria Horsford","code":"nm0395428","characters":"Self"},{"name":"Obba Babatund\u00e9","code":"nm0044762","characters":"Self"},{"name":"Arsenio Hall","code":"nm0002119","characters":"Self"},{"name":"Roxie Roker","code":"nm0737967","characters":"Self"},{"name":"Muhammad Ali","code":"nm0000738","characters":"Self"},{"name":"Martin Luther King","code":"nm0455052","characters":"Self"},{"name":"Gladys Knight","code":"nm0460912","characters":"Self"},{"name":"Patti LaBelle","code":"nm0479458","characters":"Self"},{"name":"Malcolm X","code":"nm0944318","characters":"Self"},{"name":"James Baldwin","code":"nm0049924","characters":"Self"},{"name":"Questlove","code":"nm0859821","characters":"Self"},{"name":"Maya Angelou","code":"nm0029723","characters":"Self"}],"budget":{"amount":1000000,"currency":"USD"},"lifetimeGross":null,"openingWeekendGross":null,"worldwideGross":{"amount":2574,"currency":"USD"},"keywords":[{"text":"soul"},{"text":"ellis haizlip"},{"text":"first black tonight show"},{"text":"black johnny carson"},{"text":"black excellence"}],"production":[{"id":"co0309700","text":"Shoes In The Bed Productions"}],"prestigiousAwardSummary":null,"moreLikeThisTitles":[{"code":"tt12801356","title":"MLK\/FBI"},{"code":"tt8132778","title":"Night of the Kings"},{"code":"tt21438352","title":"Is That Black Enough for You?!?"},{"code":"tt4554690","title":"The Automat"},{"code":"tt1429889","title":"Soul!"},{"code":"tt3824458","title":"Tangerine"},{"code":"tt10715268","title":"Mister Soul: A Story About Donny Hathaway"},{"code":"tt8282582","title":"A Storybook Ending"},{"code":"tt8815382","title":"The Obituary of Tunde Johnson"},{"code":"tt13622084","title":"Ailey"},{"code":"tt7935908","title":"The Apollo"},{"code":"tt5275872","title":"Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt \u0026 Anderson Cooper"}]}