| 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 ... |
| Waiting to Exhale |
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Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett star in this funny and touching film about four women who find strength through their ... |
| Baby Boy |
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Ten years after the release of the seminal boyz n the hood acclaimed director john singleton returns to the same ... |
| 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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THE BROTHERS is a fresh and hilarious look at four African-American "brothers" lifelong friends who band together to navigate through ... |
| Roots |
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From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home in 18th-century Africa ... |
| 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 ... |
| Amistad |
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An epic journey of one mans fight for his life and his freedom. This story of courage and determination is ... |
| 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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In this powerful story of friendship desperation and vengeance four women decide to take on the system and try to ... |
| Love Jones |
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Say hello to Darious Lovehall (Larenz Tate) and Nina Mosley (Nia Long), two confused lovebirds who discover that you can ... |
| A Raisin in the Sun |
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A RAISIN IN THE SUN is a groundbreaking drama celebrating the human spirit featuring an electrifying performance by Academy Award® ... |
| The Original Kings of Comedy |
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A film of a comedy tour starring four of the best african-american comedians. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 02/13/2007 ... |
| The Queens of Comedy |
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| The Weather Underground |
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The key players in the radical movement known as the Weather Underground are skillfully brought to life in this Oscar-nominated ... |
| 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 ... |
| Life (dvd) |
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In 1930's Harlem two men are framed for murder, what ensues is a comical look at their lives together in ... |
| Rosewood |
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A shameful chapter in American history is powerfully dramatized in Rosewood, but moviegoers in 1997 may not have been ready ... |
| Dolemite |
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Who's the baddest motherf****r to blow onto blaxploitation screens? Forget Shaft and just ask X-rated comic and "godfather of rap" ... |
| 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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Documents the events surrounding the 1963 bombing of an African American Baptist Church in Alabama, which resulted in the deaths ... |
| In the Heat of the Night |
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Starring Academy AwardÂ(r) winners* Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger and Lee Grant, this provocative mystery thriller won** five 1967 OscarsÂ(r), including ... |
| Pootie Tang |
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Pootie call based on the hilariously unintelligible character from the chris rock show its the outrageous villain-whupping adventures of a ... |
| Crooklyn |
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The wife and children of a jobless jazz musician deal with everyday life in 1970s brooklyn. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. ... |
| 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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Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree) directed this 1971 detective story about John Shaft (Richard Roundtree), an African American private eye ... |
| Dead Presidents |
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Get ready for action with this explosively exciting hit! On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just ... |
| Chris Rock - Bigger and Blacker |
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' 'The funniest man in America' ' according to Time magazine and Vanity Fair, presents an hour of ' 'riotously ... |
| 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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Jewel thief miles logan finds the only way he can recover a diamond he stole two years prior is to ... |
| Jazz on a Summer's Day/A Summer's Day With Bert Stern |
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Part concert documentary, part pop-cultural time capsule, Bert Stern's Jazz on a Summer's Day chronicles the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival ... |
| Jazz - A Film by Ken Burns |
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The story, sound, and soul of a nation come together in the most American of art forms: Jazz. Ken Burns, ... |
| 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 ... |
