African American Cinema on VHS
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Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts Men of the Hour Jackie Gleason & Sammy Davis Jr.
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The Piano Lesson (1995)
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Publisher: Hallmark Starring: Charles S. Dutton, Alfre Woodard, Carl Gordon, Tommy Hollis, Lou Myers Directed By: Lloyd Richards Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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The only one of August Wilson's plays to be filmed (and for television, at that), this 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winner is an amazing piece of work. Adapted by Wilson and directed by Lloyd Richards, who staged it on Broadway, the play deals not just with racism and its effects but with the ongoing legacy and curse of slavery on modern blacks. Set in 1920s Pittsburgh, the story deals with the arrival of Boy Willie (Charles Dutton) from Mississippi, to claim a family heirloom from his sister Berniece (Alfre Woodard): the piano, carved by their ancestors with symbols of slavery. He wants to sell it to buy the land his grandfather worked as a slave; Berniece refuses to give it up because it represents a horrifying episode from the family's past. |
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Black Belt Jones
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Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Jim Kelly, Gloria Hendry, Scatman Crothers, Eric Laneuville, Alan Weeks Directed By: Robert Clouse Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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A kung-fu expert battles the Mafia to save his karate studio from mob redevelopment in Watts area of L.A.. |
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My Sweet Charlie
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Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Patty Duke, Al Freeman Jr., Ford Rainey, William Hardy, Chris Wilson Directed By: Lamont Johnson Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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A kung-fu expert battles the Mafia to save his karate studio from mob redevelopment in Watts area of L.A.. |
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Malcolm X (2pc)
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Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Angela Bassett, O.L. Duke, Al Freeman Jr., Sonny Jim Gaines, Albert Hall Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Filmmaker Spike Lee, star Denzel Washington (the New York, Boston and Chicago Film Critics' choice as 1992's Best Actor) and other talents vividly portray the life and times of the visionary leader. "One of the decade's best and most important films." (Arch Campbell, WRC-TV/Washington D.C.). |
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Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings (1954 - 1956)
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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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Filmmaker Spike Lee, star Denzel Washington (the New York, Boston and Chicago Film Critics' choice as 1992's Best Actor) and other talents vividly portray the life and times of the visionary leader. "One of the decade's best and most important films." (Arch Campbell, WRC-TV/Washington D.C.). |
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Dolemite 2 - The Human Tornado
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Publisher: Vivendi Visual Enter Starring: Rudy Ray Moore, Lady Reed, J.B. Baron, Gloria Delaney, Herb Graham Directed By: Cliff Roquemore Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Filmmaker Spike Lee, star Denzel Washington (the New York, Boston and Chicago Film Critics' choice as 1992's Best Actor) and other talents vividly portray the life and times of the visionary leader. "One of the decade's best and most important films." (Arch Campbell, WRC-TV/Washington D.C.). |
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Mama Flora's Family
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Publisher: Hallmark Starring: Cicely Tyson, Erika Alexander, Blair Underwood, Queen Latifah, Mario Van Peebles Directed By: Peter Werner Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Filmmaker Spike Lee, star Denzel Washington (the New York, Boston and Chicago Film Critics' choice as 1992's Best Actor) and other talents vividly portray the life and times of the visionary leader. "One of the decade's best and most important films." (Arch Campbell, WRC-TV/Washington D.C.). |
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Underground Railroad (History Channel)
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Publisher: A&E Home Video Starring: Alfre Woodard Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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So many slaves escaped into freedom along a route that could not be ascertained that the slave owners said there must be an underground railroad under the Ohio River and on to the North." Abolitionist William Cockrum, 1854. Join descendants and scholars as we tell the story of America's first civil rights movement.. |
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Friday
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Publisher: New Line Home Video Starring: Kathleen Bradley, Tony Cox, Ice Cube, Anna Maria Horsford, Anthony Johnson Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Friday is the rarest specimen of African American cinema: a 'hood movie refreshingly free of the semiseriousness and moralism of shoot 'em up soaps such as Boyz N the Hood, yet still true to the inner-city experience. Scripted by rapper Ice Cube, Friday is a no-frills tale of a typical day in the life of a pair of African American youth in South Central. Cube plays Craig, a frustrated teen who endures the ultimate humiliation: getting fired on his day off. Then unknown Chris Tucker plays Smokey, a marijuana-worshipping homeboy whose love for the green stuff lands him in predicament after predicament. |
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