African American Cinema on VHS
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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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Lady Sings the Blues
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Publisher: Paramount Starring: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan, Paul Hampton Directed By: Sidney J. Furie Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Diana Ross stars as legendary blues singer Billie Holiday in this biopic that chronicles her rise and fall. It begins with her late childhood, a stint as a prostitute, those early days as a blues singer, her marriages, and her drug addiction. Overly glossy and lacking depth, this is worth seeing only for the performances. Diana Ross was nominated for an Oscar for her acting debut. |
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Live in Concert
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Publisher: Mpi Home Video Starring: Richard Pryor, Patti LaBelle, Jennifer Lee Directed By: Jeff Margolis Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Watching Pryor go from imitating a drinking deer to a woman debating about going in the woods gives just a hint of the comedic genius of the man. Crude, foul, and real, this is the first and best of his concert films. Pryor does dead-on impersonations of the respective races, cussing, trying to act tough, getting kicked in personal spots. But it's his imagination that elevates him to a different level. |
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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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Intruder in the Dust
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Publisher: MGM (Warner) Starring: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez, Porter Hall, Elizabeth Patterson Directed By: Clarence Brown 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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Dolemite
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Publisher: Xenon Starring: Brenda Banks (II), Jana Bisbing, Brenda DeLong, Pat Haywood, Karolynn Hill Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Who's the baddest motherf****r to blow onto blaxploitation screens? Forget Shaft and just ask X-rated comic and "godfather of rap" Rudy Ray Moore. He'll give you the gospel of Dolemite. Street hustler, pimp, and all-around ghetto superhero Dolemite began life as a character in Moore's nightclub act and was a natural character for his self-financed film debut, a revenge tale set on the corrupt streets of L.A.Dolemite is sprung from prison by an impossibly understanding warden so he can find the drug-dealing, gun-smuggling crooks who framed him. With the help of his all-girl army of kung fu killers and the most flamboyant wardrobe this side of Cher, he lays waste to dozens of bad guys while spouting his funky raps. |
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Love Jones
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Publisher: New Line Home Video Starring: Larenz Tate, Nia Long, Isaiah Washington, Lisa Nicole Carson, Bill Bellamy Directed By: Theodore Witcher Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Boy meets girl, and boy loses girl--no more and no less than that--in this romantic story of young, upwardly mobile African Americans navigating through Chicago club culture to the perilous shores of a relationship. The film was surprisingly popular at a couple of key film festivals in 1997, but there isn't anything particularly noteworthy about it aside from its rare emphasis on a love affair between black urbanites. Larenz Tate and Nia Long are fine in the leads (Tate makes a convincingly self-centered boy-man), and director Theodore Witcher aims for his small target and hits it squarely. --Tom Keogh. |
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Josephine Baker Story
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Publisher: Hbo Home Video Starring: Lynn Whitfield, Rubén Blades, David Dukes, Louis Gossett Jr., Craig T. Nelson Directed By: Brian Gibson Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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You know how it goes. You hear about what a sensation someone like Josephine Baker was in her prime (in her case, the 1920s and '30s), how she pushed boundaries in such delicate areas as race and sex, how she both thrilled and scandalized Paris with her exotic dancing and personal behavior. You have all these loose strands of legend and random fact, your curiosity is running high, and then you hear that a feature film is being made about the very subject. You watch, and then wonder: what was the big deal about Josephine Baker? The problem with this 1991 TV movie is the same as with a number of HBO films from the 1980s and early '90s: it isn't particularly well written, the production looks rushed, and the entire point is obscured in a whirl of biographical material that doesn't sufficiently develop into insightful, organic unity. |
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Publisher: Hbo Home Video Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Courtney B. Vance, Andre Braugher Directed By: Robert Markowitz Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This true story of the black flyers who broke the color barrier in the U.S. Air Force during World War II is a well-intentioned film highlighted by an excellent cast. Proud, solemn, Iowa-born Laurence Fishburne and city-kid hipster Cuba Gooding Jr. are among the hopefuls who meet en route to Tuskegee Air Force Base, where they are among the recruits for an "experimental" program to "prove" the abilities of the black man in the U.S. |
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Live on the Sunset Strip
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Publisher: Sony Pictures Starring: Richard Pryor, Julie Hampton, Jesse Jackson, Gene Cross Directed By: Joe Layton Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Taken together, Richard Pryor's concert films, the essential Live in Concert, the virtuoso Live on the Sunset Strip, and even the lesser Here and Now, provide a more incisive autobiographical portrait of the groundbreaking comedian than the fictionalized Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling. In Sunset Strip, Pryor relates two life-changing experiences. The first is his trip to "the motherland," Africa. As funny as is the routine in which Pryor gives voice to a couple of cheetahs poised to prey on unsuspecting gazelles, he brings the audience up short with a moving revelation that leads him to forswear ever again calling another black person the "N-word." The second, of course, is his near-fatal freebasing accident, which Pryor at first jokingly passes off as an accident involving milk and cookies. |
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