African American Cinema on VHS
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Black Mama, White Mama
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 Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Pam Grier; Margaret Markov Directed By: Eddie Romero Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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"A genre all by herself" (Voice), Pam Grier tacklesand shacklesher sleekest role yet as the feistier half of a pair of women in chains and on the run in this "colorful, outrageous and truly exciting" action flick (The Hollywood Reporter)! Grier is Lee Daniels, a prostitute doing hard time in an island prison camp for women where the guards have a new way to punish inmates who fight: by cuffing 'em together! Chained to her bitter rival, white revolutionary Karen (Margaret Markov), Lee finds herself literally linked to the revolutionary causeand on the flywhenKaren's guerrilla friends stage a coup! But this foxy inmate's got a cause of her own in the form of a secret stash of cold, hard cash and a getaway boat! Brawling with her white counterpart over which way to go, and tracked like a dog by guards, guerrillas and a gangster after the loot, she's gotta make her escapebefore both mamas' enemies bring them down for good!. |
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Disco Godfather
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Publisher: Xenon Starring: Rudy Ray Moore, Carol Speed, Jimmy Lynch, Jerry Jones, Lady Reed Directed By: J. Robert Wagoner Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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"A genre all by herself" (Voice), Pam Grier tacklesand shacklesher sleekest role yet as the feistier half of a pair of women in chains and on the run in this "colorful, outrageous and truly exciting" action flick (The Hollywood Reporter)! Grier is Lee Daniels, a prostitute doing hard time in an island prison camp for women where the guards have a new way to punish inmates who fight: by cuffing 'em together! Chained to her bitter rival, white revolutionary Karen (Margaret Markov), Lee finds herself literally linked to the revolutionary causeand on the flywhenKaren's guerrilla friends stage a coup! But this foxy inmate's got a cause of her own in the form of a secret stash of cold, hard cash and a getaway boat! Brawling with her white counterpart over which way to go, and tracked like a dog by guards, guerrillas and a gangster after the loot, she's gotta make her escapebefore both mamas' enemies bring them down for good!. |
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In the Heat of the Night
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Larry Gates Directed By: Norman Jewison Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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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 and a white man who don't want to be working together, the film continues to strike a chord today. Steiger is a mass of snarling danger, Poitier a bundle of nerves covered in class. Norman Jewison (Moonstruck) directs with a keen feeling for the cultural and social atmosphere of the setting. --Tom Keogh. |
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Boxing's Best - Joe Louis
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Publisher: Hbo Home Video Starring: Joe Louis Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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One of the greatest heavyweight champions of all time - he took the belt at age 23, and successfully defended the title 24 times. See great moments from this powerhouse career - Louis vs. Max Schmeling, Jimmy Braddock, Rocky Marciano and more.. |
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Thelonius Monk - Straight No Chaser
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Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Jimmy Cleveland, Harry Colomby, Ray Copeland Directed By: Charlotte Zwerin Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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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. Most vital is the use of extensive 1968 footage, shot by Michael and Christian Blackwood, documenting the sometimes moody, sometimes puckish Monk in the studio, on tour, and off stage, which on its own would make this essential jazz viewing. In post-World War II America, few cultural upheavals matched bebop for sheer exhilaration. Spawned by jazz musicians whose paydays typically came with larger swing ensembles, bop was as much bastard as stepchild, refining the technical ambitions of its parent while breaking free of swing's formalism to play fast and loose with harmony, melody, and tempo. |
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Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored
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Publisher: Republic Pictures Starring: Al Freeman Jr., Phylicia Rashad, Leon, Paula Kelly, Salli Richardson Directed By: Tim Reid Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Tim Reid's wonderful film about life in the black neighborhood of Glen Allan, Mississippi, from the mid-'40s to the dawn of the civil rights movement, is thick with terrific, inspired actors and possessed of a mature, limpid visual style. The story is told from the point of view of a young boy raised by his stalwart grandfather and his kind aunt. But the collective tale of a community coming to terms with the risks it must take to fight racism and achieve political rights is equally important and compelling. Beautifully written (based on the autobiographical novel by Clifton Taubert), Reid's vision is rich in scenes of ritual and community that have rarely, if ever, been revealed on film. |
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Eyes on the Prize: Fighting Back
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Pbs Home Video Starring: James Bevel, Myrlie Evers, James Farmer, James Forman, Ernest Green Directed By: Henry Hampton Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Tim Reid's wonderful film about life in the black neighborhood of Glen Allan, Mississippi, from the mid-'40s to the dawn of the civil rights movement, is thick with terrific, inspired actors and possessed of a mature, limpid visual style. The story is told from the point of view of a young boy raised by his stalwart grandfather and his kind aunt. But the collective tale of a community coming to terms with the risks it must take to fight racism and achieve political rights is equally important and compelling. Beautifully written (based on the autobiographical novel by Clifton Taubert), Reid's vision is rich in scenes of ritual and community that have rarely, if ever, been revealed on film. |
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Meteor Man
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Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Cynthia Belgrave, Romelle 'Ro Ro' Chapman, Don Cheadle, Marilyn Coleman, Bill Cosby Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Robert Townsend has managed to build an entire career on the basis of one funny movie (The Hollywood Shuffle)--even though he hasn't had one that was anywhere near as funny since. Case in point: This would-be comedy about an unwilling black superhero. Townsend plays a schoolteacher in a bad Washington, D.C., neighborhood that is controlled by a vicious drug gang (recognizable by their blonde-dyed hair). Then he is hit by a meteor and suddenly finds that he has super strength and can fly (and can read the minds of dogs). |
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Cinemation Industries Starring: John Amos, Michael Augustus, Simon Chuckster, Steve Cole, John Dullaghan Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Raw, jagged, and explosively angry, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a landmark in American independent cinema. Melvin Van Peebles directed, wrote, produced, edited, scored, and stars as Sweetback, a passive bouncer raised in a brothel. Shot guerrilla style on a starvation budget on the streets of Los Angeles, it's a violent tale of Sweetback's journey from passive acceptance to political awareness and active defiance. He becomes the target of a manhunt when he kills two cops who beat up a young black activist, and he bounces from hideout to hideout before running for the border, all the while getting more booty than Shaft and Superfly put together. |
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Black Sister's Revenge
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Publisher: Xenon Starring: Jerri Hayes, Ernest Williams II, Charles D. Brooks III, Leopoldo Mandeville, Malik Carter Directed By: Jamaa Fanaka Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Raw, jagged, and explosively angry, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a landmark in American independent cinema. Melvin Van Peebles directed, wrote, produced, edited, scored, and stars as Sweetback, a passive bouncer raised in a brothel. Shot guerrilla style on a starvation budget on the streets of Los Angeles, it's a violent tale of Sweetback's journey from passive acceptance to political awareness and active defiance. He becomes the target of a manhunt when he kills two cops who beat up a young black activist, and he bounces from hideout to hideout before running for the border, all the while getting more booty than Shaft and Superfly put together. |
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