 | Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
list: $14.99
by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(21 May, 1996)
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 | Down in the Delta
list: $14.99
by Miramax Home Entertainment
VHS Tape
(06 February, 2001)
(27 reviews) 
Editorial Review: This family drama begins in a gritty Chicago neighborhood with ajobless, hopeless mother (Alfre Woodard) pouring her efforts into the bottle and various drugs rather than her troubled daughter and wise-beyond-his-years son. |
 | Dr. Black & Mr. Hyde
list: $9.99
by Vci Home Video
VHS Tape
(09 April, 1992)
(3 reviews) 
Customer Review: HORRID: Even as a fan of blaxploitation, this movie is about the worst that I have ever seen...period. Bernie Casey's performance is not bad, |
 | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective (1993)
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by Xenon Studios
VHS Tape
(14 January, 2003)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: Another testament to Dr. King's legacy of greatness: I first saw this documentary air on television. I knew then how important it was that I add it to my vast CD and DVD collection. |
 | Eddie Murphy - Raw
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by Paramount Studio
VHS Tape
(27 August, 2002)
(47 reviews)
Customer Review: Stand-Up Comedy At Its' Best: In the same tradition of raunchy stand up comedy kings such as Richard Pryor and Red Foxx, Eddie Murphy's comedy pokes fun at many groups and celebrities. |
 | Ella Fitzgerald - Something to Live For
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by Winstar Home Entertainment
VHS Tape
(21 December, 1999)
(11 reviews) 
Editorial Review: The neo-pop divas of the late 20th century may have turned up the glamour, and a few even introduced formidable technical prowess, epitomized by Mariah Carey's seemingly helium-induced falsetto (the bane of canine fans everywhere) or Celine Dion's breast-beating, |
 | Eve's Bayou
list: $14.98
by Vidmark/Trimark
VHS Tape
(08 September, 1998)
(34 reviews)
Editorial Review: Actress Kasi Lemmons made an auspicious debut as a writer and director with this delicately handled, wrenchingly emotional drama, hailed by critic Roger Ebert as one of the best films of 1997. Eve's Bayou begins with ominous narration: "The summer I killed my father, |
 | Evening With Sammy Davis Jr & Jerry Lewis
list: $9.98
by Vestron Video
VHS Tape
(28 February, 1990)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: TWO GREAT TALENTS!!: This is a great video and the comedy even 15 yrs after it's filming is still current and funny.Sammy is the slightly greater talent of the two cause he can be funny, |
 | Eyes on the Prize - Aint Scared of Your Jails
list: $19.99
by Warner Home Video
VHS Tape
(15 October, 1992)
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 | Eyes on the Prize Giftset
list: $149.88
by Pbs Home Video
VHS Tape
(24 October, 1995)
(13 reviews)
Editorial Review: One of the essential documentary series from 20th-century television,Eyes on the Prize is an extraordinary, grassroots history of the civilrights movement in 1950s and '60s America. Leaving punditry and debate toothers, |
 | Fass Black
list: $19.95
by Xenon Studios
VHS Tape
(10 October, 1997)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: FASS BLACK: I AM NEED OF THIS MOVIE.I REALLY LOVE TO BUY IT.STARRING JOHNNIE TAYLOR. |
 | Foolish
list: $9.98
by Artisan Entertainment
VHS Tape
(19 June, 2001)
(11 reviews)
Customer Review: Foolish Is A Terrific Standup Showcase: Other reviewers have given this movie a hard time, but it is unwarranted. While it is true that the plot is a bit on the weak side, |
 | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
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by Anchor Bay Entertainment
VHS Tape
(30 October, 1995)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: For Us, The Living-Dead: First of all, I would have appreciated being warned that this movie was in Extended Play Mode. CD Universe was kind enough to note that the copy it had for sale was in the EP mode and thus I did not buy it from them. |
 | Frank Sinatra with Ella Fitzgerald / Frank Sinatra with Sammy Davis Jr.
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by Koch Vision Entertai
VHS Tape
(15 March, 1999)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: The Greatest Entertainers in American History!!!: I honestly don't know where to start. This video collection covers it all! Excluding only Bing Crosby, |
 | Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History
list: $14.95
by Pbs Home Video
VHS Tape
(23 January, 2001)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: A Fiery Orator Lights the Conscience of a Few: A compelling 90-minute PBS biography tracing Douglass' struggles, ideas, and influences. |
 | Friday
list: $6.93 - our price: $6.93
by New Line Home Entertainment
VHS Tape
(02 September, 2003)
(173 reviews)
Editorial Review: Friday is the rarest specimen of African American cinema: a 'hood movie refreshingly free of the semiseriousness and moralism of shoot 'em up soaps such as Boyz N the Hood, yet still true to the inner-city experience.S |
 | Girl 6
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by Twentieth Century Fox
VHS Tape
(06 August, 1996)
(15 reviews) 
Editorial Review: Perhaps only Spike Lee could make a dignified yet extremely funny comedy-drama about phone sex. Theresa Randle (Bad Boys) is the title character, a hard-working actress who becomes addicted to this peculiar form of safe sex (the movie is verbal, |
 | Glory
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by Columbia/Tristar Studios
VHS Tape
(02 October, 1991)
(279 reviews)
Customer Review: Honor and Horror: The story of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry is told in a solid and entertaining movie. The casting is brilliant, |
 | Go Tell It on the Mountain
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by Monterey Home Video
VHS Tape
(23 January, 2001)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: EXCELLENT ADAPTATION: John Grimes is a sensitive young teenager who bears the daily criticism of his step-father. As he endures the redicule, |
 | Gordon Parks: "Visions"
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by Monterey Home Video
VHS Tape
(04 February, 1997)
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 | Great Streets - The Champs Elysees with Halle Berry
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by PBS Home Video
VHS Tape
(23 January, 2001)
(2 reviews) 
Editorial Review: World travelers and armchair adventurers alike will love the fresh taste of Paris available in Great Streets: The Champs Elysées with Halle Berry. It's the lovely actress' first time in the City of Light and her enthusiasm is unbounded--from caf&e |
 | Half Past Autumn - The Life & Works of Gordon Parks
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by Hbo Studios
VHS Tape
(04 September, 2001)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: A TRIBUTE TO AN ARTIST: Gordon Parks has lived a long life. Half Past Autumn, the artistic retrospective of his life toured the country and received outstanding accolades. |
 | Hank Aaron - Sports Legend
list: $9.99
by Front Row Video, Inc
VHS Tape
(23 August, 1989)
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 | Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream
list: $14.98
by Turner Home Video
VHS Tape
(16 April, 1996)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: A True Warrior: Hank Aaron is a Great Human being.He took the Key that Jackie Robinson,Larry Dolby&the Negro League Pioneers had&o |
 | He Got Game
list: $9.99
by Touchstone Video
VHS Tape
(15 January, 2002)
(59 reviews) 
Customer Review: This movie has game: I must say that Spike Lee did a great job in making this movie. Jake (Denzel Washington) plays a prisoner who is in jail for murdering his wife years ago. |
 | Held in Trust: Lt. Henry O Flipper
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by Pbs Home Video
VHS Tape
(23 January, 2001)
(1 reviews)
Editorial Review: As the first black man to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy, Henry Ossian Flipper faced institutional racism on a daily basis, but once he was assigned as an officer to the 10th Cavalry, a regiment of the legendary "Buffalo Soldiers" of the Old West, he thought he could happily live his lifelong dream of being an Army officer.B |
 | Higher Learning
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by Columbia/Tristar Studios
VHS Tape
(09 January, 1996)
(67 reviews)
Editorial Review: This ambitious 1995 film by John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood) doesn't quite succeed at painting the illuminating, collective portrait of college life in the '90s that the director seeks. But Singleton does do a fine job of defining some conflicting impulses for young people on the cusp of adulthood, |
 | Hit!
list: $14.95
by Paramount Studio
VHS Tape
(28 April, 1993)
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 | House Party 2
list: $9.94 - our price: $9.94
by New Line Home Entertainment
VHS Tape
(07 April, 1998)
(10 reviews)
Customer Review: Another case of a disappointing sequel: This movie was disappointing, although not a total washout. Martin Lawrence as Bilal still made me laugh, |
 | House Party 3
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by New Line Home Entertainment
VHS Tape
(08 January, 2002)
(8 reviews)
Customer Review: Hip-Hop Love Boat: This movie has a revolving door with LOTS of "characters" who are fun to watch. They must have known the franchise was at an end, |
 | House Party
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by New Line Home Entertainment
VHS Tape
(08 January, 2002)
(24 reviews)
Editorial Review: It's party time, but Kid (Christopher Reid) has been grounded by his strict but loving dad (Robin Harris). His best friend, Play (Christopher Martin), however, cooks up a scheme to sneak him out of the house so he can hook up with his honey at a buddy's house, |
 | How Stella Got Her Groove Back
list: $6.98
by Twentieth Century Fox
VHS Tape
(28 December, 1998)
(66 reviews)
Editorial Review: Based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel, How StellaGot Her Groove Back stars Angela Bassett as a 40-year-old, Manhattan stock trader and single mom whose static life gets a jolt during a vacation with her pal (Whoopi Goldberg) in Jamaica. |
 | I Got The Hook-Up
list: $9.99
by Dimension Home Video
VHS Tape
(14 January, 2003)
(41 reviews)
Customer Review: What is not to like about this movie: This movie was fun. Black and Blue get ahold of a bunch of cell phones and start their own business of hotwiring the phones to work on their service. |
 | I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!
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by Mgm/Ua Studios
VHS Tape
(09 January, 2001)
(29 reviews)
Editorial Review: From Keenan Ivory Wayans, the man who brought us Jim Carrey (initially just one of the bunch on Wayans's television comedy-sketch show, In Living Color), comes I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), a comedy spoof on the blaxploitation films of the 1970s. |
 | I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!
list: $14.99
by Mgm/Ua Studios
VHS Tape
(23 January, 1996)
(29 reviews)
Editorial Review: From Keenan Ivory Wayans, the man who brought us Jim Carrey (initially just one of the bunch on Wayans's television comedy-sketch show, In Living Color), comes I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), a comedy spoof on the blaxploitation films of the 1970s. |
 | In Remembrance of Martin
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by PBS Home Video
VHS Tape
(27 January, 1998)
Editorial Review: Much of this PBS documentary was filmed on the first federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr., when a number of his former associates as well as notable admirers gathered in Atlanta to commemorate his life.T |
 | In the Heat of the Night
list: $4.94
by Mgm/Ua Studios
VHS Tape
(30 July, 2002)
(34 reviews)
Editorial Review: This 1967 film took home lots of Oscars for its fascinating drama about a Philadelphia detective (Sidney Poitier) who assists a redneck Southern sheriff (Rod Steiger) in solving a murder. A study in racism that ebbs a bit through the collective and shared need between a black man and a white man who don't want to be working together, |
 | In Your Face
list: $19.98
by Xenon Studios
VHS Tape
(06 September, 1990)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: ABAR is the baddest brotha' in cinematic history!: Despite the rediculously inaccurate box-art, this is an excellent, excellent party film. |
 | Intruder in the Dust
list: $19.99
by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(28 April, 1993)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: It captured a moment in time: Everything in this movie is a metaphor to encase its statement in an entertaining venue. People are singing in the full sanctuary of St. |
 | J.D.'s Revenge
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by Mgm/Ua Studios
VHS Tape
(09 January, 2001)
(13 reviews)
Editorial Review: It's been branded with the "blaxploitation" label, but there islittle that's exploitive in J.D.'s Revenge, a film of well-drawn,articulate characters dragged into a supernatural showdown. Glynn Turman(Cooley High) is especially fine as the sensitive and quiet Ike, |
 | Jackie Brown
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by Miramax Home Entertainment
VHS Tape
(02 September, 2003)
(167 reviews)
Editorial Review: The curiosity of Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown is RobertForster's worldly wise bail bondsman Max Cherry, the most alive character in this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch. The AcademyAwards saw it the same way, |
 | Jackie's Back
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by Umvd/Visual Entertai
VHS Tape
(19 March, 2002)
(26 reviews)
Customer Review: Too Funny!: Extremely hilarious. I've been searching for this movie for almost two years...every since I saw it on Lifetime. Jenifer Lewis is perfect for this "mockumentary" on a washed-up diva who tries to make a comeback. |
 | Jazz - A Film by Ken Burns
list: $149.88
by PBS Home Video
VHS Tape
(02 January, 2001)
(118 reviews)
Customer Review: The Best Series on Jazz, Despite Its Flaws: I am a jazz musician, son of a jazz musician, am conservatory trained, and this series stands toe to toe with the best lectures by the best music historians and music theory experts I have studied with. |
 | Jazz on a Summer's Day
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by New Yorker Films
VHS Tape
(20 May, 2003)
(25 reviews)
Customer Review: This isnt a "Concert Film", it is a time Capsule: A great Film, my only dissapointment was the ommision of theDuke Ellington set, |
 | Jungle Fever
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by Universal Studios
VHS Tape
(11 January, 2000)
(23 reviews)
Editorial Review: Spike Lee's 1991 story about an interracial relationship and its consequences on the lives and communities of the lovers (Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra) is one of his most captivating and focused films. |
 | Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
list: $9.98
by Artisan Entertainment
VHS Tape
(20 April, 1999)
(28 reviews)
Editorial Review: Sassy, in-your-face account of an intelligent, flippant Brooklyn girl who lives in the projects and dreams of college. Ariyan Johnson is captivating as the teen with attitude and a brain, but she cannot decide which should guide her. |
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