 | Dr. Black & Mr. Hyde [VHS]
BERNIE CASEY ROSALIND CASH MARIE O'HENRY MILT KOGAN Director:WILLIAM CRAIN
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enjoyable '70s black cinema:This is a very funny and enjoyable movie. It's definitely worth seeing if you're a fan of black movies from the '70s. Bernie Casey and Rosalind Cash are both good as usual, but Marie O'Henry is really the one to see in this one. She's probably best ... |
 | Jackie Brown (Widescreen Edition) [VHS]
PAM GRIER ROBERT FORSTER BRIDGET FONDA MICHAEL KEATON Director:QUENTIN TARANTINO
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The curiosity of Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown is Robert Forster's worldly wise bail bondsman Max Cherry, the most alive character in this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch. The Academy Awards saw it the same way, giving Forster the film's only nomination. The film is m... |
 | The Return of Superfly [VHS]
NATHAN PURDEE MARGARET AVERY CHRISTOPHER CURRY CARLOS CARRASCO Director:SIG SHORE
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NOT AS GOOD AS THE FIRST - BUT STILL FUN:I miss Ron O'Neil. He was Superfly. In this one we get Nathan Purdee who does extremely well with what he's given but it's just not the same as having Ron in the role. But Purdee is cool and does his best to make this a decent flick and I ... |
 | Devil's Daughter [VHS]
NINA MAE MCKINNEY JACK CARTER IDA JAMES HAMTREE HARRINGTON WILLA MAE LANG
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Early Black cinema:The story line is simplistic as most were in this era. The significance of this tape is the study of early Black cinema and a look at the pioneering Black actors. |
 | Toni Morrison: Profile of a Writer [VHS]
TONI MORRISON
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Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is one of the leading novelists in the United States. Her work--from The Bluest Eye to Song of Solomon to Jazz--is noted for its vivid imagery and powerful subjects. Her best-known work, though, is Beloved, which was made into a feature f... |
 | Superfly [VHS]
RON O'NEAL CARL LEE SHEILA FRAZIER JULIUS HARRIS CHARLES MCGREGOR
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The pinnacle of blaxploitation movies, the 1972 Superfly stars Ron O'Neal as a drug dealer who wants out of the business but decides to take out some enemies in the process. With its criminal hero, one might almost think this could be an existential crime movie, but no...it's rea... |
 | The American Experience - John Brown's Holy War [VHS]
DAVID MCCULLOUGH DAVID OGDEN STIERS JOE MORTON LIEV SCHREIBER LINDA HUNT
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He led a righteous crusade against the evils of slavery yet used horrifying violence to carry out his mission. Martyr, madman, and murderer, John Brown was an extremist who was as controversial and misunderstood in the mid-1800s as he is today. His execution at Harper's Ferry spa... |
 | The Civil War: Episode One - The Cause - 1861 [VHS]
KEN BURNS
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The Build-Up To War:This first video in Ken Burns' "Civil War" documentary focuses on the events that led up to the beginning of this terrible period in American History, such as Abraham Lincoln becoming President and the Deep South beginning to worry that their livelihood (slave... |
 | Biography - Jackie Robinson [VHS]
JACK PERKINS PETER GRAVES HARRY SMITH DAVE HOFFMAN BILL MUMY
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He was a gifted athlete whose greatest feat came not on a playing field, but in smashing the color barrier that had denied so many others a chance to compete. Jackie Robinson was a collegiate All-American in baseball, football, basketball and track. But in an era of segregat... |
 | Don King - Only In America [VHS]
VING RHAMES JEREMY PIVEN DARIUS MCCRARY KEITH DAVID Director:JOHN HERZFELD
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Made for HBO, this film biography of boxing promoter Don King is solid entertainment, thanks to a startlingly real performance at its core by Ving Rhames (who won a Golden Globe award for the role, then gave it away to Jack Lemmon on the TV broadcast). Rhames has the shuck-and-ji... |
 | Black Heat [VHS]
BROWN TAMBLYN BELLAN
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Blaxploitation Cheese from Al Adamson!:Here's a slice of '70s Blaxpoitation cheese that manages to pack a sizeable wallop for its miniscule budget. Tough African-American detective Kicks Carter (Timothy Brown) is out to break up a pair of bottom-feeder crooks and stop a guns-for-... |
 | Flyers: In Search of a Dream [VHS]
ROY COOPER MARGARET BLYE HUGH GILLIN PERRY LANG
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Neglected by history, America's pioneering black pilots helped shape modern aviation. Meet Bessie Coleman, the first black pilot to receive a license -- that could only be granted in Europe; Hubert Julian, who became a showman and promoter of black aviation, and James Herman Bann... |
 | America Beyond Color Line With Henry Louis Gates [VHS]
HENRY LOUIS GATES MORGAN FREEMAN MARTIN LUTHER KING JOHN SINGLETON Director:DANIEL PERCIVAL
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Skip shows Black America.:This is a four-part PBS/BBC series on one disc. I wonder if it is supposed to be the New World equivalent to the documentary that Gates did on Africa. I didn't see that series, so my analysis may not be as informed as it could be. This series continue... |
 | Cabin in the Sky [VHS]
ETHEL WATERS EDDIE 'ROCHESTER' ANDERSON LENA HORNE LOUIS ARMSTRONG REX INGRAM Director:BUSBY BERKELEY
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The first film directed by Vincente Minnelli (who directed the original Broadway version), this musical offers its pleasures, but also may make you squirm at the racial stereotypes that were considered both acceptable and entertaining in 1943. A story of the struggle between good... |
 | Prejudice: Answering Children's Questions [VHS]
Mpi Home Video
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 | Fabulous Four [VHS]
DURAN LEONARD HAGLER HERNS
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The Fabulous Four chronicles the competition of four great champions: Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns, and Marvin Hagler. This video is a must for any sports fan, depicting some of the greatest fights of this decade-long struggle: Duran's "hands of stone" pounding... |
 | Muhammad Ali: The Whole Story (6pc) [VHS]
MUHAMMAD ALI KHALILAH 'BELINDA' ALI RAHAMAN ALI JULIAN BOND JIM BROWN Director:JOSEPH CONSENTINO
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Muhammad Ali. He is known as the most thrilling athlete of all time... he is known as The Greatest. The remarkable story of how he became one of the most loved, hated, intriguing, and controversial figures in American history is brought to life in the 6 hour series, Muhammad Ali:... |
 | Mississippi, America: A Testimony of Persistence and Courage...to Win the Right to Vote (Civil Rights Movement) (PBS Video) [VHS]
OSSIE DAVIS RUBY DEE
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A central episode in America's civil rights movement, the 1964 "Freedom Summer" voter-registration drives in Mississippi are recounted in this PBS-produced video narrated by noted actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. To battle entrenched power in Mississippi, a state that stubbornly ... |
 | Black Eye [VHS]
FRED WILLIAMSON ROSEMARY FORSYTH TERESA GRAVES FLOY DEAN RICHARD ANDERSON Director:JACK ARNOLD
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Action-mystery involving a black private detective who investigates murders connected with a drug ring in Venice, CA. |
 | Frederick Douglass: When The Lion Wrote History [VHS]
ALFRE WOODARD Director:ORLANDO BAGWELL
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A century before Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcolm X, there was Frederick Douglass, arguably the most important and the earliest African American activist in United States history. This informative, inspiring documentary traces Douglass's heroic life and work. Born into slaver... |
