 | Amistad [VHS]
DJIMON HOUNSOU MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY ANTHONY HOPKINS MORGAN FREEMAN NIGEL HAWTHORNE Director:STEVEN SPIELBERG
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Steven Spielberg's most simplistic, sanitized history lesson, Amistad, explores the symbolic 1840s trials of 53 West Africans following their bloody rebellion aboard a slave ship. For most of Schindler's List (and, later, Saving Private Ryan) Spielberg restrains himself from the ... |
 | Thelonius Monk - Straight No Chaser [VHS]
THELONIOUS MONK NICA DE KOENIGSWARTER BARRY HARRIS BOB JONES (IV) JOHNNY GRIFFIN Director:CHARLOTTE ZWERIN
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This exemplary documentary about seminal jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk reaps the benefits of multiple blessings, including the skilled editorial hand of director Charlotte Zwerin and the patronage of executive producer (and erstwhile jazz pianist) Clint Eastwood. M... |
 | The Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns (Boxed Set) [VHS]
DAVID MCCULLOUGH SAM WATERSTON JASON ROBARDS MORGAN FREEMAN GARRISON KEILLOR
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VHS format - 9 VHS tapes boxed set. 11.5 total hours. PBX Home Video / Turner Home Entertainment Civil War documentary. Narrated by David McCullough |
 | Malcolm X [VHS]
DENZEL WASHINGTON ANGELA BASSETT DELROY LINDO SPIKE LEE ALBERT HALL Director:SPIKE LEE
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Filmmaker Spike Lee, star Denzel Washington (the New York, Boston and Chicago Film Critics' choice as 1992's Best Actor) and other talents vividly portray the life and times of the visionary leader. "One of the decade's best and most important films." (Arch Campbell, WRC-TV/Washington D.C.) |
 | Defiant Ones [VHS]
TONY CURTIS SIDNEY POITIER THEODORE BIKEL CHARLES MCGRAW Director:STANLEY KRAMER
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This 1958 variation on Huck Finn's adventures with Jim finds a white convict (Tony Curtis) chained to a black convict (Sidney Poitier) as they both escape their captors. With each man literally stuck with the other, racial conflicts take a back seat to survival. Directed by Stanl... |
 | Shaft / Movie [VHS]
RICHARD ROUNDTREE MOSES GUNN CHARLES CIOFFI GWENN MITCHELL Director:GORDON PARKS
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Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree) directed this 1971 detective story about John Shaft (Richard Roundtree), an African American private eye who has a rocky relationship with cops, an even rockier one with Harlem gangsters, and a healthy sex life. The script finds Shaft tracking dow... |
 | Live in Concert [VHS]
RICHARD PRYOR PATTI LABELLE JENNIFER LEE Director:JEFF MARGOLIS
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Watching Pryor go from imitating a drinking deer to a woman debating about going in the woods gives just a hint of the comedic genius of the man. Crude, foul, and real, this is the first and best of his concert films. Pryor does dead-on impersonations of the respective races, cus... |
 | Girl 6 [VHS]
THERESA RANDLE ISAIAH WASHINGTON SPIKE LEE JENIFER LEWIS DEBI MAZAR Director:SPIKE LEE
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 | Africans in America 4: Judgement Day [VHS]
ANGELA BASSETT
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 | Africans in America - Part 1: Terrible Transformation [VHS]
ANGELA BASSETT
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Uncovers the dramatic, surprising roots of slavery from its beginnings in Europe through its brutal emergence in the New World. Winner 1998 Peabody Award. |
 | Africans in America - Part 2: Revolution [VHS]
ANGELA BASSETT
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Dramatic re-creations and insights from General Colin Powell reveal blacks and whites engaged in the violent struggle to define who they are, and what they will become. Winner 1998 Peabody Award. |
 | Africans in America - Part 3: Brotherly Love [VHS]
ANGELA BASSETT
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Slavery's powerful social and economic grip comes face-to-face with an abolitionist movement prepared to risk everything for change. Winner 1998 Peabody Award. |
 | Promised Land [VHS]
MORGAN FREEMAN Director:EDMUND COULTHARD
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 | Glory [VHS]
MATTHEW BRODERICK DENZEL WASHINGTON CARY ELWES MORGAN FREEMAN JIHMI KENNEDY Director:EDWARD ZWICK
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One of the very best films about the Civil War, this instant classic from 1989 is also one of the few films to depict the participation of African American soldiers in Civil War combat. Based in part on the books Lay This Laurel by Lincoln Kirstein and One Gallant Rush by Peter B... |
 | Underground Railroad (History Channel) [VHS]
ALFRE WOODARD Director:JEFF LENGYEL
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So many slaves escaped into freedom along a route that could not be ascertained that the slave owners said there must be an underground railroad under the Ohio River and on to the North." Abolitionist William Cockrum, 1854. Join descendants and scholars as we tell the story of... |
 | African American Cinema I, Oscar Micheaux's "Within Our Gates" (1919) (Library of Congress & Smithsonian Video) [VHS]
ORIGINS OF FILM
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 | Jackie Brown [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... |
 | Jungle Fever [VHS]
WESLEY SNIPES ANNABELLA SCIORRA SPIKE LEE OSSIE DAVIS RUBY DEE Director:SPIKE LEE
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Spike Lee's 1991 story about an interracial relationship and its consequences on the lives and communities of the lovers (Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra) is one of his most captivating and focused films. Snipes and Sciorra are very good as individuals trying to reach beyond the... |
 | In the Heat of the Night [VHS]
SIDNEY POITIER ROD STEIGER WARREN OATES LEE GRANT LARRY GATES Director:NORMAN JEWISON
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This 1967 film took home lots of Oscars for its fascinating drama about a Philadelphia detective (Sidney Poitier) who assists a redneck Southern sheriff (Rod Steiger) in solving a murder. A study in racism that ebbs a bit through the collective and shared need between a black man... |
 | Biography - Frederick Douglass [VHS]
BIOGRAPHY
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As a young man, he experienced the brutality of slavery firsthand. As a leader of the abolitionist movement, he became one of Americaís great voices. Frederick Douglass stumbled upon his calling, giving an impromptu address at an antislavery convention in 1841. A "recent g... |
