African American Cinema on VHS
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New Orleans (1947)
Price: $47.95
Category: VHS Movies
 Publisher: Kino Video Starring: Arturo de Córdova, Dorothy Patrick, Marjorie Lord, Irene Rich, John Alexander Directed By: Arthur Lubin Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This little-seen, 1947 drama is a treat for jazz fans, thanks to an otherwise creaky, if nobly intentioned story built around the music's Crescent City genesis that provides an ample excuse to turn the camera on authentic jazz greats. Nick Duquesne (Arturo De Cordova) is a Bourbon Street charmer whose gambling club provides the mythic stomping grounds for none other than Louis Armstrong, whose vocalizing sweetheart Endie, played by none other than Billie Holiday, proves no slouch herself. A newly arrived debutante, Miralee (Dorothy Patrick), arrives in New Orleans and falls first for the music and then for the roguish but ultimately gallant Nick. The movie follows knee-jerk plot machinations revolving around her family's efforts to excise Nick from her life, her own dream of mingling jazz and classical music, and the gambler's transformation into a jazz promoter. |
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Trick Baby
List Price: $9.98 Now Only: $1.15 You Save: $ 8.83 (88%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Kiel Martin, Mel Stewart, Dallas Edward Hayes, Beverly Ballard, Vernee Watson-Johnson Directed By: Larry Yust Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This little-seen, 1947 drama is a treat for jazz fans, thanks to an otherwise creaky, if nobly intentioned story built around the music's Crescent City genesis that provides an ample excuse to turn the camera on authentic jazz greats. Nick Duquesne (Arturo De Cordova) is a Bourbon Street charmer whose gambling club provides the mythic stomping grounds for none other than Louis Armstrong, whose vocalizing sweetheart Endie, played by none other than Billie Holiday, proves no slouch herself. A newly arrived debutante, Miralee (Dorothy Patrick), arrives in New Orleans and falls first for the music and then for the roguish but ultimately gallant Nick. The movie follows knee-jerk plot machinations revolving around her family's efforts to excise Nick from her life, her own dream of mingling jazz and classical music, and the gambler's transformation into a jazz promoter. |
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The American Experience - The Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory
Price: $39.95
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Pbs (Direct) Starring: David McCullough, David Ogden Stiers, Joe Morton, Blair Brown, Liev Schreiber Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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It was 1871, and the young singers - all but two of them former slaves - were performing before far-off audiences to save their struggling new school. The Jubilee Singers' first concert, in Oberlin, Ohio, raised hopes but little else. Still, they refused to quit, and as word of their talent spread along the route of the old Underground Railway, both crowds and collections grew. The youths from Nashville, Tennessee, made history by saving Fisk University, introducing the world to the power of spirituals, and challenging racial stereotypes. See - and hear - this profound and moving story of students who battled prejudice and oppression to sing their way into a nation's heart.. |
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I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
Price: $14.98
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Jim Brown, Bernie Casey, Robert Colbert, Marilyn Coleman, Ja'net DuBois Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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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 the very funny Wayans family (Keenen, Damon and Kim), Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown, Ja'net DuBois, David Alan Grier, Kadeem Hardison and Chris Rock, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka is a perfect "mixture of nostalgia, silliness and genuinely unpredictable humor" (The New York Times). Jack Spade, a goody-goody war hero with medals for short-hand, returns to the ghetto to discover that his brother, Junebug, has OG'd (Over-Golded on jewelry). Jack swears revenge against the local gang boss, Mr. Big, and sets off to enlist an army of Shaft, Superfly and Black Caesarlook-a-likes, that is. |
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Eyes on the Prize: Mississippi America
Price: $44.88
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Pbs Home Video Starring: Julian Bond, James Bevel, Myrlie Evers, James Farmer, James Forman Directed By: Henry Hampton Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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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 the very funny Wayans family (Keenen, Damon and Kim), Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown, Ja'net DuBois, David Alan Grier, Kadeem Hardison and Chris Rock, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka is a perfect "mixture of nostalgia, silliness and genuinely unpredictable humor" (The New York Times). Jack Spade, a goody-goody war hero with medals for short-hand, returns to the ghetto to discover that his brother, Junebug, has OG'd (Over-Golded on jewelry). Jack swears revenge against the local gang boss, Mr. Big, and sets off to enlist an army of Shaft, Superfly and Black Caesarlook-a-likes, that is. |
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Eyes on the Prize: Volume 6 - Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More & A Nation of Law?
Price: $69.43
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: PBS Home Video Starring: Julian Bond, James Bevel, Myrlie Evers, James Farmer, James Forman Directed By: Henry Hampton Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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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 the very funny Wayans family (Keenen, Damon and Kim), Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown, Ja'net DuBois, David Alan Grier, Kadeem Hardison and Chris Rock, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka is a perfect "mixture of nostalgia, silliness and genuinely unpredictable humor" (The New York Times). Jack Spade, a goody-goody war hero with medals for short-hand, returns to the ghetto to discover that his brother, Junebug, has OG'd (Over-Golded on jewelry). Jack swears revenge against the local gang boss, Mr. Big, and sets off to enlist an army of Shaft, Superfly and Black Caesarlook-a-likes, that is. |
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Muhammad Ali: The Whole Story (6pc)
List Price: $59.98 Now Only: $11.00 You Save: $ 48.98 (82%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Turner Home Ent Starring: Muhammad Ali, Khalilah 'Belinda' Ali, Rahaman Ali, Julian Bond, Jim Brown Directed By: Joseph Consentino, Sandra Consentino Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Muhammad Ali. He is known as the most thrilling athlete of all time... he is known as The Greatest. The remarkable story of how he became one of the most loved, hated, intriguing, and controversial figures in American history is brought to life in the 6 hour series, Muhammad Ali: The Whole Story. |
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Woo
List Price: $9.98 Now Only: $2.00 You Save: $ 7.98 (80%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: New Line Home Video Starring: Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson, Duane Martin, Michael Ralph, Darrel Heath Directed By: Daisy von Scherler Mayer Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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A pic about a man who can not get a date and is then cursed witha beautiful, neurotic woman he can't get rid of.. |
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Soldier's Story
List Price: $9.95 Now Only: $6.79 You Save: $ 3.16 (32%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Sony Pictures Starring: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Art Evans, David Alan Grier, David Harris Directed By: Norman Jewison Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Director Norman Jewison's (In the Heat of the Night) 1984 adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play explores the ramifications of racism and loyalty through the prism of blacks in the military, revealed through a murder mystery set in the 1940s deep South. Howard E. Rollins (Ragtime) plays a military investigator assigned to the murder of a drill instructor (Adolph Caesar) in charge of a black platoon. Under pressure from his superiors to wrap his investigation up quickly, Rollins instead delves deeply into the relationships between the despised drill instructor and his men, uncovering lies and animosity, and confronting the question of what it means to be black in a white man's world. |
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Black Sister's Revenge
List Price: $19.98 Now Only: $3.62 You Save: $ 16.36 (82%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Xenon Starring: Jerri Hayes, Jewell Williams, Synthia James, Teri Taylor, Eddie Allen (II) Directed By: Jamaa Fanaka Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Director Norman Jewison's (In the Heat of the Night) 1984 adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play explores the ramifications of racism and loyalty through the prism of blacks in the military, revealed through a murder mystery set in the 1940s deep South. Howard E. Rollins (Ragtime) plays a military investigator assigned to the murder of a drill instructor (Adolph Caesar) in charge of a black platoon. Under pressure from his superiors to wrap his investigation up quickly, Rollins instead delves deeply into the relationships between the despised drill instructor and his men, uncovering lies and animosity, and confronting the question of what it means to be black in a white man's world. |
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