 Black Like Me In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. His audacious,... |  To Kill a Mockingbird (Collector's Edition) Contains: feature commentary with director robert mulligan fearful symmetry featuring interviews with cast members plus historic stills of the town of monroeville original location footage and interviews with residents and theatrical trailer. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Releas... |  Black Like Me (Cliffs Notes) This book recounts one of the most exciting sociological experiments of the 20th century. The Caucasian author undergoes chemical and physical changes to appear as an African American, to document the bias and social injustices of the white American society from personal experience. |  Man in the Mirror: John Howard Griffin and the Story of Black Like Me
|  All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics) If a classic movie can be measured by the number of indelible images it burns into the collective imagination, then All Quiet on the Western Front's status is undisputed. Since its release in 1930 (and Oscar win for best picture), this film's saga of German boys avidly signing up... |
 I Passed for White Starring Sonya Wilde, James Franciscus, Patricia Michon, Isabel Cooley, Lon Ballantyne, Elizabeth Council, Max Mellinger, Phyllis Cox, Temple Hatton, Elizabeth Harrower, Freita Shaw, Jimmy Lydon, Calvin Jackson and Ed Shashe. A beautiful young woman meet |  The Crucible The Salem witch hunts are given a new and nasty perspective when a vengeful teenage girl uses superstition and repression to her advantage, creating a killing machine that becomes a force unto itself. Pulsating with seductive energy, this provocative drama is as visually arrestin... |  Malcolm X (Two-Disc Special Edition) Just as Do the Right Thing was the capstone of Spike Lee's earlier career, Malcolm X marked the next milestone in the filmmaker's artistic maturity. It seemed everything Lee had done up to that point was to prepare him for this epic biography of America's fiery civil-rights leade... |  A Raisin in the Sun When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life.... |  Mississippi Burning Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe star in this well-intentioned and largely successful civil rights-era thriller. Mississippi Burning, using the real-life 1964 disappearance of three civil rights workers as its inspiration, tells the story of two FBI men (Hackman and Dafoe, entertain... |