African American Cinema on VHS
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When We Were Kings
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 Publisher: Polygram USA Video Starring: Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, James Brown, B.B. King Directed By: Leon Gast Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Decades ago, documentary filmmaker Leon Gast attempted to complete a feature about the 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" championship bout between boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire. Sundry complications, though, held up the project until its release in 1996. It was well worth the delay. From Gast's perspective of modern history, the six weeks Ali and Foreman were forced to spend waiting in Africa for their fight to take place now looks like an important moment in America's cultural understanding of African American roots. |
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Super Soul Brother
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Publisher: Xenon Starring: Steve Gallon, Joycelyn Norris, Benny Latimore, Peter Conrad, Lee Cross Directed By: Rene Martinez Jr. Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Decades ago, documentary filmmaker Leon Gast attempted to complete a feature about the 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" championship bout between boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire. Sundry complications, though, held up the project until its release in 1996. It was well worth the delay. From Gast's perspective of modern history, the six weeks Ali and Foreman were forced to spend waiting in Africa for their fight to take place now looks like an important moment in America's cultural understanding of African American roots. |
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Evening With Sammy Davis Jr & Jerry Lewis
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Publisher: Vestron Video Starring: Jerry Lewis, Sammy Davis Jr. Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Decades ago, documentary filmmaker Leon Gast attempted to complete a feature about the 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" championship bout between boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire. Sundry complications, though, held up the project until its release in 1996. It was well worth the delay. From Gast's perspective of modern history, the six weeks Ali and Foreman were forced to spend waiting in Africa for their fight to take place now looks like an important moment in America's cultural understanding of African American roots. |
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In the Heat of the Night
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Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Larry Gates Directed By: Norman Jewison Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This 1967 film took home lots of Oscars for its fascinating drama about a Philadelphia detective (Sidney Poitier) who assists a redneck Southern sheriff (Rod Steiger) in solving a murder. A study in racism that ebbs a bit through the collective and shared need between a black man and a white man who don't want to be working together, the film continues to strike a chord today. Steiger is a mass of snarling danger, Poitier a bundle of nerves covered in class. Norman Jewison (Moonstruck) directs with a keen feeling for the cultural and social atmosphere of the setting. --Tom Keogh. |
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Scream Blacula Scream
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Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: William Marshall, Don Mitchell, Pam Grier, Michael Conrad, Richard Lawson Directed By: Bob Kelljan Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This 1967 film took home lots of Oscars for its fascinating drama about a Philadelphia detective (Sidney Poitier) who assists a redneck Southern sheriff (Rod Steiger) in solving a murder. A study in racism that ebbs a bit through the collective and shared need between a black man and a white man who don't want to be working together, the film continues to strike a chord today. Steiger is a mass of snarling danger, Poitier a bundle of nerves covered in class. Norman Jewison (Moonstruck) directs with a keen feeling for the cultural and social atmosphere of the setting. --Tom Keogh. |
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Frontline: The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela
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Publisher: Pbs Home Video Starring: Jessica Savitch, Will Lyman Directed By: Brent E. Huffman, Katerina Monemvassitis Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Frontline profiles the most widely known and revered political leader in the world--Nelson Mandela. Credited with the reversal of apartheid in a South Africa controlled by two generations of stern Afrikaner leaders who enforced the ideology of racial separation, Mandela stands as an all-embracing giant who brought about his nation's extraordinary peaceful transformation to democracy. In the most in-depth film biography of Mandela ever undertaken, the broadcast tells the story of his life through interviews with intimates--from his most trusted associates to his jailers on Robben Island, the prison where he was held for twenty-seven years. The two-hour film offers an insider's account of his extraordinary will to lead, and of the great risk and personal sacrifice he endured to achieve democracy and equality for the people of his nation.. |
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House Party 3
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Publisher: New Line Home Video Starring: Christopher Reid, Christopher Martin, David Edwards, Angela Means, Tisha Campbell-Martin Directed By: Eric Meza Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Play throws Kid the 'mutha' of bachelor parties when the high-haired one decides to get married. Starring Kid 'n Play, TLC and Bernie Mac.. |
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Cleopatra Jones
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Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Brenda Sykes, Antonio Fargas, Dan Frazer Directed By: Jack Starrett Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Special agent Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson), six feet two inches of sinewy fighting fury clad in layers of runway chic fashions in bright rainbow colors, strolls up a sand dune and orders the destruction of a Turkish poppy field. Thousands of miles away, an L.A. drug lord named Mommy (Shelley Winters hamming it up with garish wigs and lecherous leers) screeches as her life blood burns away and lures Cleopatra stateside to plot her demise. A product of the "blaxploitation" explosion of low-budget thrillers featuring black heroes in the 1970s, Cleopatra Jones may not be the best of the batch but revels in the most outrageous fashion sense. |
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Say Amen Somebody
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: First Run Features Starring: Willie May Ford Smith, Thomas A. Dorsey, DeLois Barrett Cambell, Billie Barrett Greenbey, Sallie Martin Directed By: George T. Nierenberg Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Anyone who loves soul music or rhythm & blues probably knows that it all springs from the roots of gospel music. This 1982 documentary by director George T. Nierenberg breaks it all down beautifully as he examines the lives and careers of a handful of since-departed gospel stars, who helped create the genre from which so many other forms of music flowed. Focusing on the aging but still vigorous "Professor" Thomas A. |
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Weather Underground
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Publisher: New Video Group Starring: Billy Ayers, Kathleen Cleaver, Bernadine Dohrn, Brian Flanagan, David Gilbert Directed By: Bill Siegel, Sam Green Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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The key players in the radical movement known as the Weather Underground are skillfully brought to life in this Oscar-nominated documentary. The Weathermen were born of sixties protest, but took their scheme to overthrow the U.S. government to especially violent extremes. Never a well-populated movement, the Underground petered out as its leaders aged during the seventies; by decade's end, weary of hiding, most of them had turned themselves over to the authorities. |
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