African American Cinema on VHS
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Black Kingpin
Price: $19.92
Category: VHS Movies
 Publisher: Xenon Starring: Mario Adorf, Giulio Baraghini, Femi Benussi, Peter Berling, Omero Capanna Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Devil's Daughter
Price: $12.99  May be eligible for FREE Shipping offer
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Hollywood Select Video Starring: Nina Mae McKinney, Jack Carter, Ida James, Hamtree Harrington, Willa Mae Lang Directed By: Arthur H. Leonard Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Deep Blues
Price: $21.98
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Fox Lorber Starring: Robert Palmer, David A. Stewart, Abraham Schwab, Booker T. Laury, R.L. Burnside Directed By: Robert Mugge Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This superb documentary vividly illustrates the enduring vitality of country blues, an idiom that most mainstream music fans had presumed dead or, at best, preserved through more scholarly tributes when filmmaker Robert Mugge and veteran blues and rock writer Robert Palmer embarked on their 1990 odyssey into Mississippi delta country. What Arkansas native and former Memphis stalwart Palmer knew, and Mugge captured on film, was that the blues was not only alive but still intimately woven into the daily lives of rural blacks. Palmer, a former rock musician and Memphis Blues Festival cofounder best known for his bylines in The New York Times and Rolling Stone, had already chronicled the saga of Southern blues in his seminal book that provides the film's title. He's an astute guide, and Mugge underlines this role by pairing him with British rocker Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), whose avid interest in the music makes him an effective foil. |
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Nightfighters: Story of Tuskegee
Price: $10.00
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Xenon Starring: Nightfighters Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This superb documentary vividly illustrates the enduring vitality of country blues, an idiom that most mainstream music fans had presumed dead or, at best, preserved through more scholarly tributes when filmmaker Robert Mugge and veteran blues and rock writer Robert Palmer embarked on their 1990 odyssey into Mississippi delta country. What Arkansas native and former Memphis stalwart Palmer knew, and Mugge captured on film, was that the blues was not only alive but still intimately woven into the daily lives of rural blacks. Palmer, a former rock musician and Memphis Blues Festival cofounder best known for his bylines in The New York Times and Rolling Stone, had already chronicled the saga of Southern blues in his seminal book that provides the film's title. He's an astute guide, and Mugge underlines this role by pairing him with British rocker Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), whose avid interest in the music makes him an effective foil. |
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Half Past Autumn - The Life and Works of Gordon Parks (Documentary)
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: HBO Home Video Starring: Alfre Woodard, Jr. Gordon Parks, Samuel F. Yette, Toni Parks-Parsons, Russell Simmons Directed By: Craig Rice (III) Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This superb documentary vividly illustrates the enduring vitality of country blues, an idiom that most mainstream music fans had presumed dead or, at best, preserved through more scholarly tributes when filmmaker Robert Mugge and veteran blues and rock writer Robert Palmer embarked on their 1990 odyssey into Mississippi delta country. What Arkansas native and former Memphis stalwart Palmer knew, and Mugge captured on film, was that the blues was not only alive but still intimately woven into the daily lives of rural blacks. Palmer, a former rock musician and Memphis Blues Festival cofounder best known for his bylines in The New York Times and Rolling Stone, had already chronicled the saga of Southern blues in his seminal book that provides the film's title. He's an astute guide, and Mugge underlines this role by pairing him with British rocker Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), whose avid interest in the music makes him an effective foil. |
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Aida's Brothers & Sisters: Black Voices in Opera
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Kultur Video Starring: Aida's Brothers & Sisters-Blac Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This is both a documentary and a performance tape, with many excerpted vocal numbers and a multifaceted discussion of the belated but successful participation of African American singers in opera. Topics discussed: Is there such a thing as the "black voice," recognizable without seeing the singer? Is Porgy and Bess truly a "black opera"? Do black women fare better in opera because, unlike black men, they are not perceived as threatening? Do black baritones have better operatic prospects than black tenors because tenors usually get the romantic roles? Is the Metropolitan Opera using fewer black singers today than it did in the 1960s? What is being done to develop young black singers? The tape raises more questions than it answers and would be useful for launching group discussions. The performances include glimpses of Shirley Verrett in a seductive aria from Samson et Dalila, Leontyne Price in an excerpt from Der Freischutz, Jessye Norman in music from Ariadne auf Naxos. Some of the best musical moments are not strictly operatic--for example, Paul Robeson at a concert in Moscow singing "Old Man River" with some of the words changed to fit his own agenda. |
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THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: MALCOLM X: MAKE IT PLAIN
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Publisher: PBS VIDEO Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This is both a documentary and a performance tape, with many excerpted vocal numbers and a multifaceted discussion of the belated but successful participation of African American singers in opera. Topics discussed: Is there such a thing as the "black voice," recognizable without seeing the singer? Is Porgy and Bess truly a "black opera"? Do black women fare better in opera because, unlike black men, they are not perceived as threatening? Do black baritones have better operatic prospects than black tenors because tenors usually get the romantic roles? Is the Metropolitan Opera using fewer black singers today than it did in the 1960s? What is being done to develop young black singers? The tape raises more questions than it answers and would be useful for launching group discussions. The performances include glimpses of Shirley Verrett in a seductive aria from Samson et Dalila, Leontyne Price in an excerpt from Der Freischutz, Jessye Norman in music from Ariadne auf Naxos. Some of the best musical moments are not strictly operatic--for example, Paul Robeson at a concert in Moscow singing "Old Man River" with some of the words changed to fit his own agenda. |
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Martin Luther King Sr. In The Holy Land
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Category: VHS Movies
Starring: Reverend Martin Luther King Sr., Yale Roe Directed By: Reverend Martin Luther King Sr., Yale Roe Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This is both a documentary and a performance tape, with many excerpted vocal numbers and a multifaceted discussion of the belated but successful participation of African American singers in opera. Topics discussed: Is there such a thing as the "black voice," recognizable without seeing the singer? Is Porgy and Bess truly a "black opera"? Do black women fare better in opera because, unlike black men, they are not perceived as threatening? Do black baritones have better operatic prospects than black tenors because tenors usually get the romantic roles? Is the Metropolitan Opera using fewer black singers today than it did in the 1960s? What is being done to develop young black singers? The tape raises more questions than it answers and would be useful for launching group discussions. The performances include glimpses of Shirley Verrett in a seductive aria from Samson et Dalila, Leontyne Price in an excerpt from Der Freischutz, Jessye Norman in music from Ariadne auf Naxos. Some of the best musical moments are not strictly operatic--for example, Paul Robeson at a concert in Moscow singing "Old Man River" with some of the words changed to fit his own agenda. |
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Jackie Robinson/Martin Luther King Jr.
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Bridgestone Multimedia Group Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This is both a documentary and a performance tape, with many excerpted vocal numbers and a multifaceted discussion of the belated but successful participation of African American singers in opera. Topics discussed: Is there such a thing as the "black voice," recognizable without seeing the singer? Is Porgy and Bess truly a "black opera"? Do black women fare better in opera because, unlike black men, they are not perceived as threatening? Do black baritones have better operatic prospects than black tenors because tenors usually get the romantic roles? Is the Metropolitan Opera using fewer black singers today than it did in the 1960s? What is being done to develop young black singers? The tape raises more questions than it answers and would be useful for launching group discussions. The performances include glimpses of Shirley Verrett in a seductive aria from Samson et Dalila, Leontyne Price in an excerpt from Der Freischutz, Jessye Norman in music from Ariadne auf Naxos. Some of the best musical moments are not strictly operatic--for example, Paul Robeson at a concert in Moscow singing "Old Man River" with some of the words changed to fit his own agenda. |
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The Man Who Drive with Mandela
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Cinema Guild Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Color. 82 minutes. In the 60s, Nelson Mandela traveled incognito across South Africa, organizing armed rebellion against the apartheid regime - disguised as a chauffer for Cecil Williams, a gay theater director. Includes archival footage, home moview and contemporary interviews. Tells the story of the personal and political bravery of a forgotten hero.. |
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