 | To Sir, with Love [VHS]
SIDNEY POITIER JUDY GEESON CHRISTIAN ROBERTS SUZY KENDALL ANN BELL Director:JAMES CLAVELL
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Novelist James Clavell wrote, produced, and directed this 1967 British film (based on a novel by E.R. Braithwaite) about a rookie teacher who throws out stock lesson plans and really takes command of his unruly, adolescent students in a London school. Poitier is very good as a ma... |
 | Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry [VHS]
CLAUDIA MCNEIL JANET MACLACHLAN ROBERT CHRISTIAN ROY POOLE Director:JACK SMIGHT
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Review of Roll of Thunder:The video story had a good concept, a good plot showing events that were very realistic, but it left out key events such as the revenge of Cassie against Lilian Jean, how the blacks were treated in school, and the revenge of the Logan children getting ba... |
 | The Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns (Boxed Set) [VHS]
DAVID MCCULLOUGH SAM WATERSTON JASON ROBARDS MORGAN FREEMAN GARRISON KEILLOR
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Hailed as a documentary masterpiece without parallel, Ken Burns' filmed chronicle of America's most terrible and destructive conflict will hold you in thrall as it portrays the strategies and action of the war's famous battles, and tells the stories of illustrious generals and ... |
 | Roots 6 Video Box Set [VHS]
LEVAR BURTON OLIVIA COLE BEN VEREEN VIC MORROW Director:DAVID GREENE
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From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home in 18th-century Africa and brought under inhumane conditions to be auctioned as a slave in America, a line is begun that leads from this most shameful chapter in U.S. history to the 20... |
 | Bill Cosby, Himself [VHS]
BILL COSBY
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One of America's most popular comedians, Bill Cosby treats his fans to a funny, satirical and heart-warming concert at Toronto's Hamilton Place Performing Arts Center. His material ranges from marriage and the unending trials of parenthood, to the side-splitting antics of the ve... |
 | Glory [VHS]
MATTHEW BRODERICK DENZEL WASHINGTON CARY ELWES MORGAN FREEMAN JIHMI KENNEDY Director:EDWARD ZWICK
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One of the very best films about the Civil War, this instant classic from 1989 is also one of the few films to depict the participation of African American soldiers in Civil War combat. Based in part on the books Lay This Laurel by Lincoln Kirstein and One Gallant Rush by Peter B... |
 | Our Friend Martin [VHS]
EDWARD ASNER ANGELA BASSETT LUCAS BLACK (II) THEODORE BORDERS LEVAR BURTON Director:ROB SMILEY
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This animated time-travel adventure features a stellar cast and is a delight for kids and adults alike. When Matt, a black teenager, has to go on a class field trip to the museum of Martin Luther King Jr., he thinks that he'd rather play baseball. But the trip turns into an excit... |
 | Friday [VHS]
ICE CUBE CHRIS TUCKER NIA LONG TOMMY 'TINY' LISTER JOHN WITHERSPOON
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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 ... |
 | Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored [VHS]
PHYLICIA RASHAD LEON PAULA KELLY Director:TIM REID
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Tim Reid's wonderful film about life in the black neighborhood of Glen Allan, Mississippi, from the mid-'40s to the dawn of the civil rights movement, is thick with terrific, inspired actors and possessed of a mature, limpid visual style. The story is told from the point of view ... |
 | In the Heat of the Night [VHS]
SIDNEY POITIER ROD STEIGER WARREN OATES LEE GRANT LARRY GATES Director:NORMAN JEWISON
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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... |
![]() | Eyes on the Prize - Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) [VHS]
JULIAN BOND JAMES BEVEL MYRLIE EVERS JAMES FARMER JAMES FORMAN Director:HENRY HAMPTON
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Outstanding Video:I have shown this video several times in my Sociology class and the students are amazed at the content. Many students were not born or even a twinkle in their parents' eye in the 1960's; and this is a huge wawkening for them.
I wish this video could be obtained... |
 | 4 Little Girls [VHS]
MAXINE MCNAIR WALTER CRONKITE CHRIS MCNAIR FRED SHUTTLESWORTH WYATT TEE WALKER Director:SPIKE LEE
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There are many remarkable things about the documentary 4 Little Girls. Spike Lee's striking, beautifully realized film is a cinematic lesson of what kind of material is better suited to the documentary format. In his first documentary, Lee shares an attribute of Ken Burns: the ma... |
 | Bebe's Kids [VHS]
FAIZON LOVE VANESSA BELL CALLOWAY JONELL GREEN MARQUES HOUSTON
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None:Never received, Seller try to tell me that I got it because tracking number says I did. Didn't get and had 2 different tracking numbers. |
 | The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman [VHS]
CICELY TYSON ERIC BROWN RICHARD DYSART JOEL FLUELLEN WILL HARE Director:JOHN KORTY
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This 1973 television movie about 110 years of American history as seen through the eyes of a black woman from Louisiana (Cicely Tyson) is a terrific achievement, a window onto racism from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. Tyson gives a career performance as the title ch... |
 | True Story of Glory Continues [VHS]
MORGAN FREEMAN Director:BEN BURTT
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Whether or not you've seen the Oscar-award-winning feature film Glory, you're sure to find inspiration and heartbreak in the story of African American soldiers in the Civil War. The True Story of Glory Continues, narrated by Morgan Freeman, looks at the patriots of the 54th Massa... |
 | The Piano Lesson (1995) [VHS]
ALFRE WOODARD CARL GORDON TOMMY HOLLIS LOU MYERS Director:LLOYD RICHARDS (II)
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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... |
 | Truck Turner [VHS]
Director:JONATHAN KAPLAN
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Academy AwardÂ(r) winner* Isaac Hayes and Yaphet Kotto (Alien) star in this powerful, pull-out-the-stops crime thriller from director Jonathan Kaplan (Unlawful Entry). It's a gritty, action-packed tale of the streets, pulsating with ultra-smooth soul, high-octane energy and nons... |
 | Rosewood [VHS]
JON VOIGHT VING RHAMES DON CHEADLE BRUCE MCGILL LOREN DEAN Director:JOHN SINGLETON
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A shameful chapter in American history is powerfully dramatized in Rosewood, but moviegoers in 1997 may not have been ready for the African American equivalent of Schindler's List. And while the massacre that occurred in the nearly all-black town of Rosewood, Florida, in 1922 can... |
 | Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts Men of the Hour Jackie Gleason & Sammy Davis Jr.
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 | My Sweet Charlie [VHS]
PATTY DUKE FORD RAINEY WILLIAM HARDY CHRIS WILSON Director:LAMONT JOHNSON
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A Masterful Story that pulls on the heart strings!:MY SWEET CHARLIE is a fantastic film that really showcases the talents of Patty Duke and Al Freeman Jr. Patty Duke actually won an Emmy Award for her beautifully innocent work in this picture. The story follows a young pregnant g... |
