Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored (1995)
PG
115 min | Drama, Romance

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Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored (1995)

115 min | Drama, Romance

A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.

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56 cast members

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