Spike Lee
1) Malcolm X
Publisher
Not Supplied
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.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Not Supplied
Description
The film is considered one of the most influential political films in history, by Gillo Pontecorvo. Vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, etc. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film is a case study in modern warfare, with its terrorist attacks and the brutal techniques...