“Beasts of the Southern Wild” has a kindred spirit – in its themes, its precocious child star and its Oscar pedigree. Exactly 40 years ago, the 1972 film “Sounder” received four Academy Award ...

“There ain’t no dog like Sounder,” says the lead character of the 1969 William H. Armstrong classic book titled after the name of the dog. This touching story of an unnamed African-American boy and ...

Robert Radnitz, who produced such classics as “Sounder” and “Island of the Blue Dolphins,” died June 6 in Malibu of complications from a stroke 14 years earlier. He was 85. “Sounder,” about a Southern ...

Some classic Black films have been selected for addition to the National Film Registry. Top-notch acting courtesy of (from left) Yvonne Jarrell and Cicely Tyson in “Sounder” and Glynn Thurman and ...