| The Color Purple |
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Steven Spielberg, proving he's one of the few modern filmmakers who has the visual fluency to be capable of making ... |
| Glory |
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Broderick and Elwes are the idealistic young Bostonians who lead the regiment: Freeman is the inspirational sergeant who united the ... |
| Eve's Bayou |
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Actress Kasi Lemmons made an auspicious debut as a writer and director with this delicately handled, wrenchingly emotional drama, hailed ... |
| Menace II Society |
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Directed by twin brothers, Allen and Albert Hughes, this critically acclaimed cinematic masterpiece brilliantly details real life in today's tough ... |
| Friday (New Line Platinum Series) |
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A youth tries to survive life in L.A.'s hip-hoppin' South Central 'hood. Includes two music videos from the #1 hit ... |
| Do The Right Thing - Criterion Collection |
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The hottest day of the year explodes onscreen in this vibrant look at a day in the life of Bedford-Stuyvesant, ... |
| The Brothers |
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THIS IS THE STORY OF FOUR AFRICAN-AMERICAN YUPPIES, A BANKER, A DOCTOR, A LAWYER, AND A PLAYBOY WHO CALL THEMSELVES ... |
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
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Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance) are unforgettable as perplexed ... |
| What's Love Got To Do With It? |
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Experience for yourself the powerful true-life story of Tina Turner -- rock 'n' roll's remarkable and talented superstar. Laurence Fishburne ... |
| Set It Off |
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Four women take the law into their own hands and try to get some pay-back by robbing the city's biggest ... |
| A Raisin in the Sun |
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When a newly widowed matriarch receives a $10,000 life insurance check, she soon learns her family has their own ideas ... |
| The Queens of Comedy |
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FOUR BLACK WOMEN, PROFANE AND BRASSY, BRING STAND-UP TO MEMPHIS'S ORPHEUM THEATRE. ... |
| The Weather Underground |
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This film tells the unbelievable story of the weathermen the group of 70s radicals who fueled by outrage over the ... |
| Martin Luther King Jr. - I Have a Dream |
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"I have a dream today." On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King spoke these words as he addressed a crowd ... |
| Next Friday (New Line Platinum Series) |
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Ice Cube returns as Craig Jones, a streetwise man from South Central Los Angeles in this smash hit sequel to ... |
| Dolemite |
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A hilrious 70s kung-fu classic includes an interview with rudy ray moore. Studio: Allegro Media Group Release Date: 06/07/2005 Starring: ... |
| To Sir, With Love |
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Novelist James Clavell wrote, produced, and directed this 1967 British film (based on a novel by E.R. Braithwaite) about a ... |
| Glory (Special Edition) |
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The heart-stopping story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War. Glory stars Matthew ... |
| The Tuskegee Airmen |
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Featuring an all-star cast headed by Laurence Fishburne, fireballs of high speed air action explode off the screen in this ... |
| 4 Little Girls |
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From the director of ' 'Do The Right Thing' ' and ' 'Malcolm X' ' comes ' 'a masterpiece.' ' ... |
| Pootie Tang |
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The adventures of Pootie Tang, an inner city crime fighter who speaks a language that nobody understands.
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| Crooklyn |
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THE WIFE AND CHILDREN OF A JOBLESS JAZZ MUSICIAN DEAL WITH EVERYDAY LIFE IN 1970'S BROOKLYN. ... |
| Beloved |
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Oprah Winfrey (THE COLOR PURPLE) and Danny Glover (LETHAL WEAPON IV, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS) play the unforgettable lead roles in ... |
| Shaft |
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RICHARD ROUNDTREE SCORES AS THE TOUGH PRIVATE EYE WHOSE HUNT FOR A MISSING WOMAN PUTS HIM IN THE MIDDLE OF ... |
| Big Momma's House |
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Disguise is the limit. "Martin Lawrence brings down the house" (E! Online) as crafty FBI agent Malcolm Turner who's willing ... |
| Blue Streak |
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A criminal becomes a cop to get lost loot. ... |
| Naqoyqatsi |
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Miramax Home Entertainment and Oscar(R)-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh (Best Director, TRAFFIC, 2000) present NAQOYQATSI ("Life As War"), from filmmaker Godfrey ... |
| Poetic Justice |
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A RECLUSE WHOSE SINGULAR FORM OF EXPRESSION IS HER POETRY AND A POSTAL CARRIER WHO RECORDS RAP SONGS TO VOICE ... |
| House Party |
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The raucous events leading up to and after the 'mutha' of all urban teen parties. Starring Kid 'n Play and ... |
| A Lesson Before Dying |
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A young black man, accused of murder and sentenced to die like an animal in 1940 Louisiana, is befriended by ... |
| Shaft |
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An African American detective tries to stop a racist killer, by tracking down the only eyewitness to his crimes.
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| I'm Gonna Git You Sucka |
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A hilarious Soul Cinema send-up, this ultra-slick, urban action comedy blows 70's blaxploitation movies right out of the 'hood! Featuring ... |
| Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser |
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Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser. Filmmaker Bruce Ricker couldn't believe his luck. Michael and Christian Blackwood's extensive 1968 footage of ... |
| Two Can Play That Game |
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A woman uses her natural weapons to get her man in shape. ... |
| House Party 2 |
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Kid 'n Play (Class Act) return, this time to blow the roof off college life--and Harris University will never be ... |
| Richard Pryor - Live in Concert |
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Watching Pryor go from imitating a drinking deer to a woman debating about going in the woods gives just a ... |
| A Soldier's Story |
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DENZEL WASHINGTON STARS IN THIS DARK DRAMA OF MURDER AND RACISM ON A SOUTHERN MILITARY BASE. SPECIAL FEATURES: FULL SCREEN ... |
| Live on the Sunset Strip |
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COMEDIC GENIUS RICHARD PRYOR EXPLORES VARIOUS TOPICS AS WELL AS HIS OWN PERSONAL TRAGEDIES IN THIS HYSTERICAL, YET EMOTIONALLY STIRRING, ... |
| Cooley High |
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Often called 'the black American Graffiti'but with "far more vitality and more variety" (The New York Times), Cooley High takes ... |
| A Decade Under the Influence |
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The 1970s was an extraordinary time of rebellion. As political activism, the sexual revolution, the women's movement, and the music ... |
