African American Cinema on DVD
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The Tuskegee Airmen
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Publisher: Hbo Home Video Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Courtney B. Vance, Andre Braugher Directed By: Robert Markowitz Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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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 exciting story of the "Fighting 99th," the first squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. Based on the true story.. |
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Menace II Society
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Publisher: New Line Home Video Starring: Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, June Kyoto Lu, Toshi Toda, Samuel L. Jackson Directed By: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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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 inner city. With the powerhouse performances by Tyrin Turner (Deep Cover), Larenz Tate (The Fresh Prince of Bel Air) and Jada Pinkett (A Different World), the film also features dynamite supporting roles by Charles S. Dutton (Roc) and Bill Duke (Predator).DVD Features:InterviewsProduction NotesTheatrical Trailer. |
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Philadelphia
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Publisher: Sony Pictures Starring: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Roberta Maxwell, Buzz Kilman, Karen Finley Directed By: Jonathan Demme Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Philadelphia wasn't the first movie about AIDS (it followed such worthy independent films as Parting Glances and Longtime Companion), but it was the first Hollywood studio picture to take AIDS as its primary subject. In that sense, Philadelphia is a historically important film. As such, it's worth remembering that director Jonathan Demme (Melvin and Howard, Something Wild, The Silence of the Lambs) wasn't interested in preaching to the converted; he set out to make a film that would connect with a mainstream audience. And he succeeded. |
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Lilies of the Field
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Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Stanley Adams, Pamela Branch, Isa Crino, Dan Frazer, Francesca Jarvis Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Featuring an Academy AwardÂ(r)-winning performance by Poitier*, and nominated** for four additional OscarsÂ(r), including Best Picture, Lilies of the Field is a funny, sentimental, charming and uplifting film (The Hollywood Reporter). Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier), an itinerant handyman, is driving through the Arizona desert when he meets five impoverished nuns. Stopping to fix their leaky farmhouse roof, Homer discovers that not only will the Mother Superior not pay him for the job, but she also wants him to build their chapelfor free! Hesitant at first, Homer soon finds himself single-handedly raising the chapel and the financing. But although hewill not receive a monetary reward, Homer knows that when his work is done, he'll leave that dusty desert town a much better place than when he found it. *1963: Actor **1963: Supporting Actress (Skala), Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography (B&W). |
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Set It Off
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Publisher: New Line Home Video Starring: Van Baum, Vincent Baum, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Natalie Desselle, Dr. Dre Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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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 banks in this riveting action drama starring Jada Pinkett Queen Latifah Vivica A. Fox Kimberly Elise and Blair Underwood. Directed by Gary Gray.Running Time: 123 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 794043478727. |
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Juice
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Publisher: Paramount Starring: Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins, Khalil Kain, Cindy Herron Directed By: Ernest R. Dickerson Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Spike Lee's longtime cinematographer, Ernest R. Dickerson, made his directorial debut with this violent story about four Harlem teens whose lives are changed when a store robbery goes wrong. The film has been likened to an urban The Wild Bunch, but it is far too artificial for that. With Dickerson's eye, Juice understandably looks great, but at the end of the day it is only a slightly better version of the heavily clichéd crime movies that have artificially dominated perceptions of black cinema in the U.S. |
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Life (dvd)
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Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Obba Babatundé, Nick Cassavetes, Anthony Anderson Directed By: Ted Demme Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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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 prison over the next sixty years.Genre: Feature Film-ComedyRating: RRelease Date: 6-JAN-2004Media Type: DVD. |
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Love Jones
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Publisher: New Line Home Video Starring: Larenz Tate, Nia Long, Isaiah Washington, Lisa Nicole Carson, Bill Bellamy Directed By: Theodore Witcher Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Say hello to Darious Lovehall (Larenz Tate) and Nina Mosley (Nia Long) two confused lovebirds who discover that you can never underestimate the power of a love jones.Running Time: 110 min.System Requirements:Drama Actors / Performers: Nia Long Larenz Tate Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: UPC: 794043478628. |
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No Way Out (Fox Film Noir)
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Publisher: 20th Century Fox Starring: Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, Sidney Poitier, Mildred Joanne Smith Directed By: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Nominated for the 1950 Oscar® for Best Writing Story and Screenplay this intense drama about racial hatred pulls no punches. When a white patient in a hospital dies under the care of a black intern (Sidney Poitier) the victim s racist brother (Richard Widmark) seeks to destroy the doctor s career. Although the hospital s idealistic Chief Resident (Stephen McNally) tries to diffuse the escalating tension the victim s ex-wife (Linda Darnell) seems to go along with the vengeance-seeker until she realizes she s on the wrong side.Episodes-Bonus Features:FeatureAudio Commentary with Film Noir Historian Eddie MullerPublicity GalleryPhoto GalleryFox Movietone News: Richard Widmark Puts Imprints in CementTheatrical TrailerFox Noir: Dark Corner Where the Sidewalk Ends & LauraFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 024543214571 Manufacturer No: 2231457. |
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Dead Presidents
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Publisher: Walt Disney Video Starring: Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, Freddy Rodríguez, Rose Jackson Directed By: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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A Vietnam vet is drawn into a life of crime and, with the help of his war buddies, robs an armored car.Genre: Feature Film-Action/AdventureRating: RRelease Date: 3-JUN-2003Media Type: DVD. |
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