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Malcolm X (2pc)
Warner Home Video
Warner Home Video
Just as Do the Right Thing was the capstone of Spike Lee's earlier career, Malcolm X marked the next milestone in the filmmaker's artistic maturity. It seemed everything Lee had done up to that point was to prepare him for this epic biography of...
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Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored
Republic Pictures
Republic Pictures
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...
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Soldier's Story
Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures
Director Norman Jewison's ( In the Heat of the Night ) 1984 adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play explores the ramifications of racism and loyalty through the prism of blacks in the military, revealed through a murder mystery set in the...
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Miss Evers Boys
Hbo Home Video
Hbo Home Video
Laurence Fishburne helped shepherd this Emmy Award-winning exposé from American medical history books to the small screen. Anchored in the 1973 Senate inquiry into the infamous Tuskegee Study, the film uses a flashback structure to take us back 40...
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Rosewood
Warner Home Video
Warner Home Video
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...
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Watermelon Woman
First Run Features
First Run Features
Cheryl Dunye has transcended the usual pitfalls that pockmark most lesbian-themed movies: specifically, the usual angst and suffering that occur when the gay gal falls for a heterosexual friend. The Watermelon Woman is more a cultural document,...
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The Color Purple (Widescreen Edition)
Warner Home Video
Warner Home Video
Steven Spielberg, proving he's one of the few modern filmmakers who has the visual fluency to be capable of making a great silent film, took a melodramatic, D.W. Griffith-inspired approach to filming Alice Walker's novel. His tactics made the film...
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Columbia/Tristar 2
Columbia/Tristar 2
Despite rave reviews as one of the most stylish and intelligent detective pictures in a number of years, this 1995 adaptation of Walter Mosley's novel never found a mass audience. Too bad, because Carl Franklin's film is nearly perfect in every way,...
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