Spike Lee
5) Inside man
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Pub. Date
2006.
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Description
NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...
8) Bamboozled
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Pub. Date
2000.
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Description
"In a searing parody of American television, Bamboozled takes a humorous look at how race, ratings and the pursuit of power lead to a network executive's stunning rise and tragic downfall."--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Standard format.
Description
"What would happen now if the South had won the Civil War? Told through the lens of a faux British documentary, [the film] provides a bracing and provocative look at a very different America that might have been"--Container.
10) Summer of Sam
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Description
In the summer of 1977 in New York City, a man called the Son of Sam commits numerous murders. As friends in a small Italian neighborhood become obsessed with the idea that the Son of Sam is someone nearby, the madman's plague of terror becomes the catalyst that prompts relationships to fall apart and trust to disintegrate into dread.
11) Malcolm X
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen version.
Description
Born Malcolm Little, his minister father was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. He became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. After getting out of jail, he preaches the teachings, but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca. There he converts to the original Islamic religion and becomes a Sunni Muslim. He changes his name to El-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz and stops his anti-white teachings, having...
12) Chi-raq
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Description
Chi-Raq is a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play 'Lysistrata' by Aristophanes. After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata organize against the on-going violence in Chicago2s Southside creating a movement that challenges the nature of race, sex and violence in America and around the world.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
A story of two poets with bipolar disorder, whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they meet in a treatment facility, their chemistry is instant and intense driving each other to new heights. They pursue their passion which breaks outside the bounds of sanity, swinging them from fantastical highs to tormented lows until they ultimately must choose between sanity and love.
14) Malcolm X
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Pub. Date
1992.
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.
15) Red Hook summer
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
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Description
The latest in Spike Lee's Chronicles of Brooklyn series, the film tells the story of Flik Royale, a young boy from Atlanta who has come to spend the summer with his religious grandfather, Bishop Enoch Rouse, in the housing projects of Red Hook, New York. Between his grandfather's preaching and the culture shock of city life, Flik's summer appears to be a total disaster, until he meets Chazz Morningstar, a girl his age, who shows Flik the brighter...
16) 25th hour
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Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Description
Monty Brogan is facing a seven-year prison sentence for dealing drugs. On the night before he has to go to jail, he decides to go out with his friends one last time, and re-examines his life in the process.
17) The best man
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen [ed.]
Description
Scandalous secrets from the past begin to reveal themselves when a commitment-shy writer and his old college buddies reunite for a wedding.
18) Pavarotti
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
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Description
Academy Award winner Ron Howard puts audiences front row center for an exploration of the Voice, the Man, the Legend. Luciano Pavarotti gave his life to the music and a voice to the world. This cinematic event features history-making performances and intimate interviews, including never-before-seen footage and cutting-edge Dolby Atmos technology. A riveting film that lifts the curtain on the icon who brought opera to the people.
19) 4 Little Girls
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
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Description
The Birmingham Campaign was launched in 1963. Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists were soon jailed, but it was the participation of the children that advanced the momentum of the Birmingham movement. They marched alongside the adults and were taken to jail with them as well. Because the 16th St. Baptist Church was close to the downtown area, it was an ideal location to hold rallies and meetings. On Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963, dynamite planted...
20) Malcolm X
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Pub. Date
2010
Edition
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Description
Biography of Malcolm X, the famous African American leader.