 | Our Friend Martin
EDWARD ASNER ANGELA BASSETT LUCAS BLACK 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... |
 | Thelonius Monk - Straight No Chaser
THELONIOUS MONK JOHN COLTRANE JIMMY CLEVELAND HARRY COLOMBY RAY COPELAND Director:CHARLOTTE ZWERIN
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This exemplary documentary about seminal jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk reaps the benefits of multiple blessings, including the skilled editorial hand of director Charlotte Zwerin and the patronage of executive producer (and erstwhile jazz pianist) Clint Eastwood. M... |
 | Lady Day - The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
BILLIE HOLIDAY
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Given the often inextricable relationship between art and suffering, it's no coincidence that Billie Holiday, popularly acclaimed as jazz's greatest (if not technically best) female singer, was also one of its most tragic figures. While both triumph and tragedy are covered in th... |
 | The Story of Jazz
VARIOUS ARTISTS
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Produced as the title segment to a six-part series, this 90-minute documentary traces the evolution of jazz from its 19th-century origins in New Orleans's Congo Square, where slaves first introduced American listeners to the complex rhythms and earthy textures of African music. ... |
 | Richard Pryor - Here and Now
RICHARD PRYOR PAUL MOONEY Director:RICHARD PRYOR
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Did you ever have a good concert spoiled by yahoos in the audience? In Richard Pryor: Here and Now, the last and least of Pryor's three concert films, Pryor's consummate comic genius is put to the supreme test by audience members who shout out, heckle, and otherwise break the spe... |
 | Ladies Sing the Blues
BILLIE HOLIDAY BESSIE SMITH DINAH WASHINGTON LENA HORNE PEGGY LEE
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WINNER OF: -The American Video Conference/Billboard Magazine -The International Film & TV Festival of NY -The American Film & Video Festival The "Ladies" who created an art form and sang their way into legend… a bygone era is recaptured in this filmed salute to the women ... |
 | Blues Masters, Vol. 1: Essential History
VARIOUS ARTISTS
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Too much jazz filler.:I thought this series (both Vol. 1 and 2) were a good source of historic blues info. I especially like the way they corelate historic events such as the 1929 Market Crash and WWII with blues events and artists. The only criticism I have is that it mixes too ... |
 | Blues Masters, Vol. 2: Essential History
VARIOUS ARTISTS
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A look at Black American Music History :This II video (and video I) digs deep into how it all started and recognizes the most important people that gave us the best music.
Some good vintage performance footage.A few cut-aways and Big Mama is not shown performing.I enjoyed this,e... |
 | Tupac Shakur - Thug Angel (The Life of an Outlaw)
ANTHONY 'TREACH' CRISS DAVEY D SNOOP DOGG YAFEU FULA Director:PETER SPIRER
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In the $3 billion industry of hip-hop music, no one has touched as many lives with a microphone as Tupac Shakur. In this never-before-seen footage, see Tupac at seventeen, a young man at the edge of his destiny, speaking out about injustice on the streets of Oakland. See him at t... |
![]() | Def Comedy Jam, Vol. 5
DEF COMEDY JAM
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 | Masters of the Country Blues
BUKKA WHITE & SAM HOUSE
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hand of god:just watching the right hand of son house moving up and down chilled me to the bone. that's the only reason i want to own this dvd. to cheer me up when i'm blue. |
 | Live on the Sunset Strip
RICHARD PRYOR GENE CROSS JULIE HAMPTON JESSE JACKSON Director:JOE LAYTON
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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 I... |
 | Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
CHARLIE PARKER
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This 1987 film represents the first substantial documentary devoted to virtuoso saxophonist and bebop icon Charlie Parker, whose wildly inventive style and hip charisma made him a legend well before his untimely death at 34. Parker's huge, ultimately self-destructive appetites a... |
 | Toni Morrison: Profile of a Writer
TONI MORRISON
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Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is one of the leading novelists in the United States. Her work--from The Bluest Eye to Song of Solomon to Jazz--is noted for its vivid imagery and powerful subjects. Her best-known work, though, is Beloved, which was made into a feature f... |
 | The Power & The Glory
MAHALIA JACKSON Director:JEFF SCHEFTEL
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The Queen:I had this already, but I share one, but if you get the trill of real Gospel, then Mahalia will trill and chill your soul. Although she's been gone awhile, I don't miss her too much do this having this. You can learn as well as take the journey with her. |
 | Rhapsodies in Black & Blue: Paramount 4
MACK GORDON JACK OAKIE LEROY PRINZ HARRY REVEL LYDA ROBERTI
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The Jazziest Blues.:I think this video is a must have for your blues and jazz collection. The short musical movies, are well put together. I especially like Duke Ellington's Bundle of blues, I didn't know the song stormy weather, was writen and sung before the 1940's. Ivie Anders... |
 | Def Comedy Jam All Stars 10
DEF COMEDY JAM
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 | The Search for Robert Johnson
Sony
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Outstanding Documentary:While this may not be for everyone, it is an outstanding look at the legend of Robert Johnson who himself was a blues legend. It is a search through the Southeastern US for the real truth about him and includes interview footage of people who knew him well... |
 | Def Comedy Jam, Vol. 12
DEF COMEDY JAM
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 | Def Comedy Jam, Vol. 13
Time Life (Ventura)
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