African American Cinema on VHS
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Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
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 Publisher: Miramax Starring: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Tracey Cherelle Jones, Chris Spencer Directed By: Paris Barclay Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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From the creator of TV's IN LIVING COLOR, this outrageous comedy hit had critics and audiences roaring with laughter! From block parties and beepers to high-tops and high-powered weapons, it's everything that's funny about growing up in the 'hood ... the Wayans Brothers' neighborhood, that is! Marlon, Shawn (both from TV's THE WAYANS BROTHERS) and Keenen Ivory Wayans (A LOW DOWN DIRTY SHAME, TV's IN LIVING COLOR) get together and deliver a series of hilarious situations that all move to a hot hit soundtrack! Get ready for a good time, because there are plenty of laughs in this neighborhood!. |
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Biography - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Publisher: A&E Home Video Starring: David Janssen Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Rarely has one man done so much to change the politics and conscience of the nation. Like too many others, he paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Foxtrap / Movie
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Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Maurizio Bonuglia, Christopher Connelly, Nick Dimitri, Arlene Golonka, Peter Gonneau Directed By: Fred Williamson Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Rarely has one man done so much to change the politics and conscience of the nation. Like too many others, he paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Mandela
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Publisher: HBO Video Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Described as a "biographical drama," the made-for-TV Mandela is the story of South African human-rights advocate Nelson Mandela, who at the time this film was made was in the 25th year of a prison sentence. Covering the years 1948 to 1987, the film traces Mandela's (Danny Glover) matriculation from young lawyer to fervent anti-Apartheid political activist. At first a proponent of nonviolence, Mandela is radicalized after the Sharpeville massacre of 1960. Thrown in jail by the white-dominated government in 1962, Mandela passes the cudgel to his wife Winnie (Alfre Woodard), who perseveres despite constant persecution from the powers-that-be. |
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Coffy
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Publisher: Orion / MGM Starring: Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui, William Elliott (II), Allan Arbus Directed By: Jack Hill Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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In the opening minutes of Coffy, Pam Grier's star-making role, she blasts the skull of a sleazy drug pusher into pulp like a watermelon and shoots his junkie assistant with an overdose of heroin. Jack Hill knows how to open a movie, and he never lets up on the down-and-dirty action. Coffy is an emergency room nurse by day and vigilante by night, targeting the dealers who made her sister a comatose junkie. She works her way up to the Italian mobsters muscling into the ghetto drug trade while she's romanced by glib, smooth-talking politician Booker Bradshaw and wooed by nice-guy cop William Elliot, whose refusal to sell out to the corrupt force earns him a crippling beating.There's plenty of sex, a catty girl-fight that leaves the losers topless, and car chases and shootouts galore, but what makes Coffy a blaxploitation classic is Grier's Amazonian presence and fiery charisma, and the gritty, low-budget action scenes marked by visceral, wincing violence. |
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Eyes on the Prize: The Time Has Come (1964-1966)
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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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In the opening minutes of Coffy, Pam Grier's star-making role, she blasts the skull of a sleazy drug pusher into pulp like a watermelon and shoots his junkie assistant with an overdose of heroin. Jack Hill knows how to open a movie, and he never lets up on the down-and-dirty action. Coffy is an emergency room nurse by day and vigilante by night, targeting the dealers who made her sister a comatose junkie. She works her way up to the Italian mobsters muscling into the ghetto drug trade while she's romanced by glib, smooth-talking politician Booker Bradshaw and wooed by nice-guy cop William Elliot, whose refusal to sell out to the corrupt force earns him a crippling beating.There's plenty of sex, a catty girl-fight that leaves the losers topless, and car chases and shootouts galore, but what makes Coffy a blaxploitation classic is Grier's Amazonian presence and fiery charisma, and the gritty, low-budget action scenes marked by visceral, wincing violence. |
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Hell Up in Harlem
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Publisher: Orion Studios (Old Label) Starring: Fred Williamson, Julius Harris, Gloria Hendry, Margaret Avery, D'Urville Martin Directed By: Larry Cohen Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Fred Williamson returns as Tommy Gibbs, the self-styled Godfather of Harlem in Larry Cohen's quickly made sequel to the low-budget Black Caesar. The film opens with a different perspective on the finale from the earlier film, this time with Gibbs surviving an assassination attempt with the help of his estranged father (Julius Harris), who becomes Tommy's new chief lieutenant in his rebuilt organization. Tommy takes his revenge on those who set him up but faces a new threat from within as the corrupt DA partners with an ambitious gang member to take Tommy down. It's not going to be as easy as they think. |
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Blues Masters, Vol. 2: Essential History
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Publisher: Rhino / Wea Starring: Various Artists Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Fred Williamson returns as Tommy Gibbs, the self-styled Godfather of Harlem in Larry Cohen's quickly made sequel to the low-budget Black Caesar. The film opens with a different perspective on the finale from the earlier film, this time with Gibbs surviving an assassination attempt with the help of his estranged father (Julius Harris), who becomes Tommy's new chief lieutenant in his rebuilt organization. Tommy takes his revenge on those who set him up but faces a new threat from within as the corrupt DA partners with an ambitious gang member to take Tommy down. It's not going to be as easy as they think. |
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Blues Masters, Vol. 1: Essential History
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Publisher: Rhino / Wea Starring: Various Artists Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Fred Williamson returns as Tommy Gibbs, the self-styled Godfather of Harlem in Larry Cohen's quickly made sequel to the low-budget Black Caesar. The film opens with a different perspective on the finale from the earlier film, this time with Gibbs surviving an assassination attempt with the help of his estranged father (Julius Harris), who becomes Tommy's new chief lieutenant in his rebuilt organization. Tommy takes his revenge on those who set him up but faces a new threat from within as the corrupt DA partners with an ambitious gang member to take Tommy down. It's not going to be as easy as they think. |
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Shaft (1971)
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Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Victor Arnold (II), Dominic Barto, Sherri Brewer, Drew Bundini Brown, Charles Cioffi Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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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 down the kidnapped daughter of a black mobster, but the pleasure of the film is the sum of its attitude, Roundtree's uncompromising performance, and the thrilling, Oscar-winning score by Isaac Hayes. Parks seems fond of certain detective genre clichés (e.g., the hero walking into his low-rent office and finding a hood waiting to talk with him), but he and Roundtree make those moments their own. Shaft had a couple of sequels and a follow-up television series, but none had the impact this movie did. --Tom Keogh. |
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