African American Cinema on VHS
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Negro Soldier
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 Publisher: Republic Pictures Starring: William Broadus, Clarence Brooks, Norman Ford, Carlton Moss, Clyde Turner Directed By: Stuart Heisler Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Cotton Comes to Harlem
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Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace, Redd Foxx Directed By: Ossie Davis Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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One of the most influential Soul Cinema pix ever to shoot onto the screen, Cotton Comes To Harlem spawned the blaxploitation boom by delivering a "refreshingly different detective action yarn with soul and humor" (Cue) and an unbeatable mix of "fast-paced adventure [and] comic lunacy" (Pacific Film Archive). Detectives "Gravedigger" Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and "Coffin Ed" Johnson(Raymond St. Jacques) are on the case and in everyone's face when they investigate Rev. Deke O'Malley (Calvin Lockhart)a brother whose "Back To Africa" campaign is nothing more than a big scam forbigga' bucks. But when $87,000 of O'Malley's laundered cash gets stashed in a bail of cotton, Gravedigger and Coffin find they're not the only dudes suddenly interested in soaring cotton prices! Trailing the bale all over Harlem, the detectives come up against the mafia, the police, black militantsand more in an all-out dash to nab the $87,000 cashand to 86 anyone who stands in the way!. |
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Black Caesar
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Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Fred Williamson; Gloria Hendry; Art Lund; D'Urville Martin; Julius Harris Directed By: Larry Cohen Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Fred Williamson is "imposing, tough and unflappable" (The New York Times) as a street kid who muscles his way into the big-time mob racket in this super-slick crime drama that became the smashhit of its genre and spawned a successful sequel (Hell Up In Harlem). Tommy Gibbs (Williamson) has always had it tough. Growing up on the streets without a father and trying to make his mother proud, Tommy resorts to running "errands" for The Man. But when a crooked cop beats him up, Tommy realizes there's a better way to live: by making The Man deliver for him! Infiltratingandthen destroyingthe infamous Cardoza family, Tommy takes over Manhattan as the first black Godfather and puts the squeeze on anyone who dares to get in his wayincluding the crooked cop! But as he tightens his grip on others, he loses his hold on the most important things in his own life, making him the vulnerable target of every cutthroat gangster who ever dreamt of ruling an empire!. |
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Frederick Douglass: When The Lion Wrote History
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Publisher: Pbs Home Video Starring: Alfre Woodard Directed By: Orlando Bagwell Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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A century before Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcolm X, there was Frederick Douglass, arguably the most important and the earliest African American activist in United States history. This informative, inspiring documentary traces Douglass's heroic life and work. Born into slavery, Douglass was separated from his mother as a small child and forced into field labor on one of the largest plantations in the American South. |
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Soul Food
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Publisher: 20th Century Fox Starring: Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long, Michael Beach, Mekhi Phifer Directed By: George Tillman Jr. Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Soul Food is the kind of movie that seems to have been blessed throughout its low-budget production, and it's got a quality of warmth and charm that fits perfectly with its authentic drama about a large African-American family in Chicago. Twenty-eight-year-old writer-director George Tillman Jr. drew autobiographical inspiration from his upbringing in Milwaukee, and on a well-spent $6.5 million budget he succeeded where similar films (including Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back) fell short: He depicts his many characters with such depth and sympathy that, by the time they have weathered several family crises, we've come to care and feel for them and the powerful ties that bind them together. As seen through the eyes of Tillman's young alter ego Ahmad (Brandon Hammond), the film primarily focuses on the rivalries and affections that rise and fall among Ahmad's mother (Vivica A. |
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Tiger Woods Son, Hero & Champion
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Publisher: Twentieth Century-Fox Home Video Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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When golf phenom Tiger Woods won the 1997 Masters with a tournament scoring record, he burst onto the national scene with what seemed like a storybook beginning to a great career. But what looked like an overnight success had actually begun years and years before, when as a toddler he was coached by his father. This video, appropriately subtitled Son, Hero, and Champion, prominently features Tiger's father, Earl Woods, a former Green Beret who essentially put his son through a psychological boot camp designed to make him a mentally tough player. One of the highpoints of this documentary is a detailed look at how Tiger Woods and his father developed strategies to win tournaments, focusing on a specific amateur championship where the Woods family brain trust had to quickly devise a way to come from behind to win the tournament in a playoff round. |
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Carol Burnett Show Collector's Edition: Sammy Davis Jr/ Shirley MacLaine
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Publisher: Columbia House Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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2 Episodes Guest Star: Sammy Davis Jr Airdate September 20, 1975 and Guest Star Shirley MacLaine Airdate October 4, 1975. |
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Biography - Frederick Douglass
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Publisher: A&E Home Video Starring: Biography Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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As a young man, he experienced the brutality of slavery firsthand. As a leader of the abolitionist movement, he became one of Americaís great voices. Frederick Douglass stumbled upon his calling, giving an impromptu address at an antislavery convention in 1841. A "recent graduate from the institution of slavery with his diploma on his back," he quickly became a powerful symbol of freedom. |
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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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How Stella Got Her Groove Back
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Publisher: 20th Century Fox Starring: Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Whoopi Goldberg, Regina King, Suzzanne Douglas Directed By: Kevin Rodney Sullivan Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel, How Stella Got Her Groove Back stars Angela Bassett as a 40-year-old, Manhattan stock trader and single mom whose static life gets a jolt during a vacation with her pal (Whoopi Goldberg) in Jamaica. Sparks fly when Bassett meets a 20-year-old stud (Taye Diggs) who has an ambivalent career path but a great body and lots of sexual energy to burn. After some prodding by Goldberg's warm-funny secondary character, Bassett gets it on with the fellow--and proceeds to worry about what she's doing with a man half her age. The film is most enjoyable in its sunny, exotic early scenes and becomes more formulaic once the unlikely couple transports their will-we-stay-together-or-won't-we tensions back to the Big Apple. |
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