 | 187
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by Warner Studios
DVD
(07 September, 2004)
(47 reviews) 
Customer Review: Sometimes intelligent,sometimes silly: Sam Jackson plays a hard working New York teacher.At the very start of the movie we see him get brutally stabbed by the Wu Tang Clan's Method Man because he flunked him.A |
 | 3 Strikes
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by Mgm/Ua Studios
DVD
(05 June, 2001)
(19 reviews) 
Customer Review: I actually would give it 3 1/2 stars...: This movie has humor in it, it's not "intelligent" humor, no it's actually pretty low brow. |
 | 4 Little Girls
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by Hbo Studios
DVD
(08 January, 2002)
(21 reviews) 
Customer Review: America's Embarrassment . . . . Where were you?: Spike Lee has struck a cord in this classic work. Poignant portrayals of racism in 1964 as 4 Little Girls are brutally murdered in the Birmingham church bombing by the KKK. |
 | 46664, The Event - Nelson Mandela's AIDS Day Concert
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by Wea Corp
DVD
(13 April, 2004)
(5 reviews)
Editorial Review: The power of popular music has been harnessed numerous times on behalf of various causes. But few of those efforts have been as powerful as 46664, an extraordinary program that is at once both entertaining and edifying, |
 | A Decade Under the Influence
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by New Video Group
DVD
(30 September, 2003)
(7 reviews) 
Editorial Review: How did Hollywood make so many great, challenging, offbeat films in the 1970s? A Decade Under the Influence lists the reasons--or rather, lets the people who did the filmmaking list the reasons. The decade-shaping interviewees include Martin Scorsese, |
 | A Great Day in Harlem/The Spitball Story
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by Image Entertainment
DVD
(22 June, 1999)
(13 reviews)
Editorial Review: And what a day it was: nearly 60 jazz musicians, gathered on a Harlem street one morning in 1958 for what photographer Art Kane rightly, if immodestly, calls "the greatest picture of that era of musicians ever taken" (incredibly, |
 | A Huey P. Newton Story
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by Ventura Distribution
DVD
(25 January, 2005)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: GREAT FILM- AWFUL DVD: I reviewed this befroe and they would not put it up, why? I did not cuss, I merely suggested that something was quite foul smelling with the way this man is STILL being treated. |
 | A Lesson Before Dying
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by Hbo Studios
DVD
(23 January, 2001)
(8 reviews) 
Customer Review: Very good movie, grab a box of tissues.: This movie was excellent, very sad but realistic about racism and how African Americans were not treated equally in the South. |
 | A Raisin in the Sun
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by Columbia/Tristar Studios
DVD
(22 February, 2000)
(23 reviews)
Customer Review: "I am a giant, and I'm surrounded by ants.": With perhaps the best cast ever assembled for this play, David Susskind's 1961 production of Raisin in the Sun is a classic film and a landmark achievement during the civil rights struggles of the early 1960s. |
 | A Soldier's Story
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by Columbia/Tristar Studios
DVD
(28 August, 2001)
(13 reviews)
Customer Review: Definately one of my favorite American movies.: I think the first time I saw this movie, was an edited TV version. I usually don't watch TV because I'm annoyed by commercial interruptions. |
 | Africans in America
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by Wgbh Boston Video
DVD
(01 August, 2000)
(5 reviews)
Customer Review: WOW! THIS HAS TO BE SEEN!: You won't be the same after watching this amazing well done documentary. There are moments that will move you to tears. |
 | Amistad - DTS
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by Dreamworks Skg
DVD
(03 June, 2003)
(99 reviews)
Customer Review: So what if history is made more entertaining?: Have the critics of this film's historical "accuracy" never heard of "dramatic license"? |
 | Amistad
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by Dreamworks Skg
DVD
(03 June, 2003)
(99 reviews)
Editorial Review: Steven Spielberg's most simplistic, sanitized history lesson, Amistad, explores thesymbolic 1840s trials of 53 West Africans following their bloody rebellion aboard a slave ship. For most ofSchindler's List (and, |
 | At the Jazz Band Ball - Early Hot Jazz, Song and Dance
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by Yazoo
DVD
(11 April, 2000)
(6 reviews)
Editorial Review: At the Jazz Band Ball features rare, archival film clips from1925 to 1933 that showcase a wonderful potpourri of musicians, bandleaders,singers, dancers, and entertainers that characterized the best of the HarlemRenaissance and the Jazz Age. |
 | Baby Boy
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by Columbia Tri-Star
DVD
(03 September, 2002)
(80 reviews)
Customer Review: I JUST TOOK IT FOR WHAT IT IS...: I've read the reviews of "Baby Boy"-the 2001 John Singleton film-and came to see that many of them portrayed the movie as sterotypical and predictible.W |
 | Beloved
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by Touchstone Video
DVD
(14 January, 2003)
(113 reviews)
Customer Review: Solid Acting: This movie is beautiful and painful to watch. It tries hard to live up to Toni Morrison's novel and succeeds in capturing many of the book's powerful images. |
 | Best of Def Comedy Jam Set 1
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by Ventura Distribution
DVD
(23 April, 2002)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: unparalleled fun: Great, funny, outrageous.... This set has a combination of both dry and "wet" humor. I am a big fan of black comedy and this is definitely a great set to start with, |
 | Best of Def Comedy Jam Set 2
list: $99.98
by Ventura Distribution
DVD
(23 April, 2002)
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 | Big Momma's House
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by Twentieth Century Fox Home Video
DVD
(02 September, 2003)
(74 reviews)
Customer Review: The Best Movie of 2000!: There were ALOT of good movies in 2000(Shanghai Noon, MI2, Unbreakable,Gladiator, etc.), but this movie was truly the best. |
 | Biography - Martin Luther King Jr.: The Man and the Dream
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by A & E Home Video
DVD
(10 August, 2004)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: A good one hour documentary, but not the best in the world: This was an interesting documentary, but the directorial artsy stuff was quite curious. |
 | Biography - Nelson Mandela: Journey to Freedom
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by A & E Home Video
DVD
(10 August, 2004)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: The Greatest Freedom Fighter of all Time!!: Nelson Mandela is probably known as one of the greatest freedom fighters of all time as wonderfully told and illustrated on this A&E |
 | Black Caesar
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by Mgm/Ua Studios
DVD
(09 January, 2001)
(18 reviews)
Customer Review: Good blaxploitation flick, but often disturbing.: If you think John Shaft is tough, then wait until you see the character Tommy Gibbs in Black Caesar. |
 | Black Gunn
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by Columbia Tristar Hom
DVD
(03 August, 2004)
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 | Black Heat
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by Ventura Distribution
DVD
(04 March, 2003)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: Blaxploitation Cheese from Al Adamson!: Here's a slice of '70s Blaxpoitation cheese that manages to pack a sizeable wallop for its miniscule budget. |
 | Black Mama, White Mama
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by Mgm/Ua Studios
DVD
(13 November, 2001)
(7 reviews)
Customer Review: dis movie rox mai sox mahon!!!!!: DIS IS DA PAM GURL MOVIE...........SHE IS DA BEST GURL IN PLANET CAUSE SHJE LOOX HOT WITH GOOD LOOKIN HOTTAS.. |
 | Black Samurai
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by Brentwood Communications
DVD
(30 January, 2001)
(12 reviews)
Customer Review: Long Live Jim Kelly: This title, as bad in production value as it is, definitely ranks up there with the most entertaining movies I've ever seen. |
 | Black Sister's Revenge
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by Xenon Entertainment
DVD
(23 March, 2004)
(5 reviews)
Customer Review: The music: I over the years have become a big fan of blaxploitation films. I have nothing negative to say, because if it weren't for them there would be no Eddie Murphy and so on.T |
 | Blue Streak
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by Columbia/Tristar Studios
DVD
(02 April, 2002)
(66 reviews)
Editorial Review: Martin Lawrence can certainly talk a blue streak (witness his concert film, You So Crazy), but he tones it down to PG-13 for this by-the-book action comedy. Lawrence stars as Logan, a bank robber and jewel thief (nice role model we're supposed to cheer for) who, |
 | Booty Call
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by Columbia/Tristar Studios
DVD
(04 June, 2002)
(23 reviews)
Customer Review: Great Fun Movie: A fun movie whose portrayals are not to be taken seriously. There are many memorable scenes and lines. Jamie Foxx is at his best and for the most part, |
 | Boyz 'N the Hood
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by Columbia/Tristar Studios
DVD
(06 March, 2001)
(71 reviews)
Customer Review: A POWERFUL AND INFLUENTIAL MOVIE.: "Boyz 'N The Hood" is one of those movies that will touch you because of its realism and message. |
 | Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? - The Life and Music of Robert Johnson
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by Winstar Home Entertainment
DVD
(24 November, 1998)
(11 reviews)
Customer Review: Can't You Hear The Wind Howl? A Vision of Robert Johnson: I would reccomend this film to any Robert Johnson fan as well as to anyone just getting into the blues who wants to know where its really at. |
 | Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog
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by Koch Vision/Shanachie Video
DVD
(23 March, 1999)
(11 reviews)
Editorial Review: Don McGlynn's uncompromising and soulful documentary look at the tumultuous life of musician and rebel Charles Mingus is fascinating stuff. Mingus said of himself "I am half black man, half yellow man, but I claim to be a Negro. |
 | Chris Rock - Bigger and Blacker
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by Hbo Studios
DVD
(02 April, 2002)
(32 reviews)
Customer Review: Rock On!: Chris Rock follows up his 1996 hit "Bring the Pain" with another hilarious 1-hr routine. As always, Chris serves up his brutally honest opinions on the social and political nightmares we live in today. |
 | Classified X
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by Winstar Home Entertainment
DVD
(14 August, 2001)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: this prune would think degrading Africans is funny: Spoken like a (...). How can this airbrain claim that black ppl bo-janglin, sa- sucking and samboing was a good thing cos they could pay their bills and it was just comedy? |
 | Cleopatra Jones
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by Warner Studios
DVD
(03 February, 2004)
(11 reviews)
Editorial Review: 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. |
 | Clockers
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by Universal Studios
DVD
(01 April, 2003)
(25 reviews)
Editorial Review: Based on the riveting bestseller by Richard Price, this 1995 crime drama was directed by Spike Lee with such authority and authenticity that it has the hyper-real quality of a stylized documentary. Fully capturing the thoroughly researched detail of Price's novel, |
 | Coffy
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by Mgm/Ua Studios
DVD
(13 November, 2001)
(22 reviews)
Customer Review: THE Movie That Set the Style of 70s: All of Pam Grier movies in the 70s, "Coffy" is the most famous. She deserves it; watch this movie, |
 | Cooley High
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by Mgm/Ua Studios
DVD
(01 May, 2001)
(28 reviews)
Editorial Review: Cooley High has frequently been compared to American Graffiti, and for good reason. Like that classic, Cooley High has a loose, multicharacter structure, autobiographical origins, and the rich texture of its time. |
 | Cotton Comes to Harlem
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by Mgm/Ua Studios
DVD
(13 November, 2001)
(7 reviews)
Customer Review: Wow.: Another movie in which Calvin Lockhart is momentarily shirt-less. A hundred, thousand, million stars! |
 | Crooklyn
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by Universal Studios
DVD
(01 April, 2003)
(31 reviews)
Editorial Review: Spike Lee's semiautobiographical, 1994 film about the good and bad times for a Brooklyn family in the '70s has passion and nostalgic good feeling, but it is also a mess of random reflections and arbitrary storytelling. |
 | Dead Presidents
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by Buena Vista
DVD
(03 June, 2003)
(46 reviews)
Customer Review: Larenz Tate Proves His Star Quality Once More: I don't know what it is about this guy but Larenz Tate can mesmerize a screen. Lackluster films like " Love Jones " and " Love Come Down " would have surely fizzled out if it hadn't been for his strong screen presence. |
 | Deep Blues
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by Fox Lorber
DVD
(25 April, 2000)
(32 reviews)
Editorial Review: 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.W |
 | Def Comedy Jam - Best of Martin
list: $39.98
by Ventura Distribution
DVD
(17 December, 2002)
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 | Def Comedy Jam - Best of Steve Harvey
list: $24.98
by Ventura Distribution
DVD
(17 December, 2002)
(2 reviews) 
Customer Review: Where is Steve Harvey?: Steve Harvey is not on this DVD. Def Comedy Jam and Cedrice the Entertainer but no Steve Harvey. I'm afraid to order it again. |
 | Def Comedy Jam - More All Stars, Vol. 1
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by Ventura Distribution
DVD
(01 April, 2003)
Editorial Review: The three lively, 1990s episodes of Def Comedy Jam on More All Stars, Vol. 1 find Martin Lawrence hosting two of the programs, though his duties include a funny bit about trying to put on a condom in the fog of early-morning sleepiness. |
 | Def Comedy Jam - More All Stars, Vol. 2
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by Time-Life Video
DVD
(01 April, 2003)
Editorial Review: This second volume of raw and gritty More All Stars episodes from the early 1990s finds comedians Martin Lawrence and Joe Torry still on active duty as frequent hosts. (Between introducing up-and-coming, |
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