 | Ken Burns' Civil War, Episode 7: Most Hallowed Ground - 1864
list: $19.98
by Pbs Home Video
VHS Tape
(08 August, 1994)
(1 reviews) 
Customer Review: Lincoln is re-elected President as 1864 comes to a close: The seventh volume in the celebrated documentary on The Civil War by Ken Burns focuses on the last half of 1864 and the events effective the re-election of Abraham Lincoln. |
 | Ken Burns' Civil War, Episode 9: The Better Angels of Our Nature
list: $19.98
by Pbs Home Video
VHS Tape
(08 August, 1994)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: The epilogue to Ken Burns' celebrated documentary: "The Better Angels of Our Nature" (a line from Lincoln's First Inaugural address) is essentially the epilogue to the celebrated documentary on "The Civil War" from Ken Burns. |
 | Koppel Report: A Town Meeting with Nelson Mandela
list: $19.98 - our price: $19.98
by Mpi Home Video
VHS Tape
(12 December, 1990)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: The Living Mandela...Not A Myth!: Inspiration to study the life of Nelson Mandela was a direct result of watching this video provided in my local library. |
 | Lady Day - The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
list: $19.95 - our price: $19.95
by Kultur Video
VHS Tape
(21 May, 1991)
(7 reviews) 
Customer Review: Kultur, this time you missed it!: If you are interested in the (ever fashionable) approach to Jazz, via the contemporary interpretation of the social environment in which the Jazz artists created, |
 | Lady Sings the Blues
list: $14.95 - our price: $13.46
by Paramount Studio
VHS Tape
(29 January, 2002)
(29 reviews) 
Editorial Review: Diana Ross stars as legendary blues singer Billie Holiday in this biopic that chronicles her rise and fall. It begins with her late childhood, a stint as a prostitute, those early days as a blues singer, |
 | Legends of the Ring - Muhammad Ali - Skill, Brains & Guts
list: $19.98 - our price: $19.98
by Mpi Home Video
VHS Tape
(04 June, 1996)
(1 reviews)
Editorial Review: Skill, Brains & Guts begins with boxing legend MuhammadAli's emergence as a great amateur fighter, then chronicles his careerthrough the glory days of the 1960s, his exile from the ring followinghis refusal to join the military during the height of the Vietnam war,a |
 | Legends of the Ring - Sugar Ray Robinson - Pound for Pound
list: $19.98 - our price: $19.98
by Mpi Home Video
VHS Tape
(04 June, 1996)
(9 reviews)
Customer Review: He Beat Them All: In an era of great middleweights, Sugar Ray beat them all. He had every attribute of a great fighter: grace, skill, |
 | Looking for Langston
list: $29.95 - our price: $29.95
by Water Bearer
VHS Tape
(01 January, 1998)
(5 reviews)
Customer Review: A brilliant counter-history: Julien seeks to mine the archive of the Harlem Renaissance for what has been lost or forgotten, namely the role of gay black men--writers, |
 | Love Jones
list: $9.94 - our price: $9.94
by New Line Home Entertainment
VHS Tape
(04 June, 2002)
(76 reviews)
Editorial Review: Boy meets girl, and boy loses girl--no more and no less than that--in this romantic story of young, upwardly mobile African Americans navigating through Chicago club culture to the perilous shores of a relationship. |
 | Magic Johnson - Always Showtime
list: $9.95
by Usa Films
VHS Tape
(02 March, 1999)
(7 reviews)
Customer Review: Classic Hoops!: to Me this was the last of Great Baseketball.what happen to fast Breaks&Running?? Teams just don't move like this anymore.M |
 | Malcolm X: His Own Story as it Really Happened
list: $19.98 - our price: $19.98
by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(11 January, 2000)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: A Great Portrait of a Man: A truly well crafted documentary where excerpts from Malcolm X's autobiography and footage of his speeches drive the narrative. |
 | Malcolm X
list: $4.97 - our price: $4.97
by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(03 February, 2004)
(72 reviews)
Editorial Review: 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 America's fiery civil-rights leader, |
 | Mama Flora's Family
list: $9.98 - our price: $9.98
by Hallmark Home Entertainment
VHS Tape
(15 February, 2000)
(12 reviews)
Customer Review: Mama Flora's Family: I have viewed many movies, Mama Flora's Family is truly one of the best I've seen in a long time. The movie displayed emotions that seem to have been forgotten in most families. |
 | Mandela and de Klerk
list: $9.98 - our price: $9.98
by Hallmark Home Entertainment
VHS Tape
(17 December, 2002)
(3 reviews)
Editorial Review: Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid. That segregation was abolished without bloodshed also had much to do with the political maneuverings of South African President F.W |
 | Mandela
list: $19.99
by Ryko Distribution - Video
VHS Tape
(26 January, 1999)
(1 reviews)
Editorial Review: A vibrantly presented and emotionally charged portrait of the dynamic African leader, this needed tighter narration to close informational gaps. For instance, there is very little mention of F.W. de Klerk, |
 | Martin Luther King Commemorative Collection
list: $29.98 - our price: $29.98
by Mpi Home Video
VHS Tape
(1988)
(1 reviews)
Editorial Review: This absorbing video is chock-full of interviews and footage of MartinLuther King Jr., and a well-rounded picture of the civil-rights movement, beginning with a conversation with Coretta Scott King, Dr. |
 | Martin Luther King Jr. - I Have a Dream
list: $14.98 - our price: $14.98
by Mpi Home Video
VHS Tape
(26 July, 1989)
(5 reviews)
Editorial Review: One of the greatest and most memorable moments in the civil rightsmovement occurred when 200,000 people marched on Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. Not only was the gathering of so many united people extraordinary, |
 | Martin Luther King, Jr.: Legacy of a Dream
list: $14.98 - our price: $14.98
by Mpi Home Video
VHS Tape
(17 December, 1990)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: The Sword That Heals: This film gives a vividly accurate account of the trials and tribulations of the sit-in protestors and the freedom riders. |
 | Martin Luther King, Jr.
list: $19.95
by Mpi Home Video
VHS Tape
(1990)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: it is the best of tapes, it is the worst of tapes: Contrary to what a previous reviewer wrote, "I Have a Dream" has had three sections chopped out of it; |
 | Masters of American Music: Sarah Vaughan - The Divine One
list: $19.99 - our price: $19.99
by Bmg/Bmg Video
VHS Tape
(23 November, 1993)
(10 reviews)
Customer Review: LET'S START IT OFF CLASSY! LET'S START IT OFF SASSY!: For me, after Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington comes Sarah Vaughan, and this testament to her life and career reveals the sassy power she wielded as a performer and as a human being. |
 | Michael Jordan - Air Time
list: $19.95
by Usa Films
VHS Tape
(23 February, 1999)
(6 reviews)
Customer Review: Review On Air Time: This video sends chills through my body when I watch it. It shows Michael at his best and in the prime of his leaping days. |
 | Michael Jordan - Come Fly With Me
list: $14.95
by Usa Films
VHS Tape
(23 February, 1999)
(7 reviews)
Customer Review: A MUST HAVE FOR JORDAN FANS: One Word: Bestsportsvideoever. Awesome highlights from his early years. The dialogue from this video and the calls of the announcers will stick in your head. |
 | Michael Jordan - His Airness
list: $19.95
by Usa Films
VHS Tape
(08 June, 1999)
(10 reviews)
Editorial Review: Once upon a time, a boy named Michael Jordan lived in Wilmington, North Carolina. Young Michael dreamt of becoming a professional basketball player. He began by participating in drop-in games with his brother, |
 | Michael Jordan - The Ultimate Collection (Come Fly with Me, Air Time, Above &
list: $24.95
by Usa Films
VHS Tape
(02 March, 1999)
(5 reviews)
Customer Review: Good Stuff!: The Michael Jordan Ultimate Collection is an entertaining and informative recollection of Michael Jordan's career and how it has affected his life. |
 | Michael Jordan to the Max (Large Format)
list: $9.98 - our price: $9.98
by Twentieth Century Fox
VHS Tape
(21 August, 2001)
(34 reviews)
Editorial Review: The greatest basketball player of all time gets an appropriate clip reel in this 45-minute documentary, which was originally released in the IMAX format. While you can't simulate IMAX's 80-foot-high screen in your living room, |
 | Miss Evers' Boys
list: $9.94
by Hbo Studios
VHS Tape
(07 August, 2001)
(8 reviews)
Editorial Review: 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, |
 | Mississippi Masala
list: $92.36
by Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Hardcover
(January, 1992)
(19 reviews)
Editorial Review: Mira Nair, the Indian director, scored an international art-house hit with her feature debut, Salaam Bombay!, a tale of life in the streets of seething urban India. Her next film was a surprising turnabout: Mississippi Masala is a cultural study and a love story set in the rural American south. |
 | Mo' Money
list: $9.95
by Columbia/Tristar Studios
VHS Tape
(29 September, 1998)
(5 reviews)
Editorial Review: Sort of comedy, sort of not, this film--cowritten, coproduced, and co-starring Damon Wayans--concerns a loser who takes an entry-level job at a credit company to impress a girl and soon gets caught up in fraud and blackmail. |
 | Muhammad Ali - The Whole Story
list: $59.92 - our price: $59.92
by Turner Home Video
VHS Tape
(20 November, 2001)
(17 reviews)
Customer Review: Too Pretty To Be A Fighter: I popped some popcorn and settled onto my couch - and was blown away - watched the entire thing in 1 daySome of the rarest and greatest footage I've ever seen!I |
 | My Sweet Charlie
list: $39.98
by Universal Studios
VHS Tape
(11 June, 1997)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: My first understanding of what racism is: This is one of my favorite tv movies of the seventies which is about racism in the south. |
 | Nat "King" Cole: Unforgettable
list: $14.98 - our price: $14.98
by Mpi Home Video
VHS Tape
(18 December, 1985)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: EXCELLENT VISUAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE MAN: This documentary about one of the greatest ballad singer of his time has all a documentary should have including clips of his widow that tells a lot about what kind of man he really was;r |
 | Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
list: $14.98
by Sony Music (Video)
VHS Tape
(14 March, 1989)
|
 | Nothing But a Man
list: $19.95 - our price: $19.95
by New Video Group
VHS Tape
(25 January, 1995)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: Revelatory: A film that deserves far more exposure than it has apparently received thus far. There is drama to be found in everyday lives. |
 | Olympiad Series: Jesse Owens Returns to Berlin
list: $14.95
by Paramount
VHS Tape
(28 May, 1992)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: Greatest sports documentary: Fabulous sports footage, international political thriller, and the mesmerizing narration of Jesse. |
 | Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored
list: $9.98 - our price: $9.98
by Republic Studios
VHS Tape
(18 December, 2001)
(9 reviews)
Editorial Review: 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, |
 | Only the Ball Was White
list: $19.98 - our price: $19.98
by Mpi Home Video
VHS Tape
(26 January, 1994)
(1 reviews)
Editorial Review: It seems elementary in the age of mega-league professional sports, many of which have been revolutionized by African American athletes, to point out that before Jackie Robinson major league baseball waslily white. |
 | Pootie Tang
list: $9.95 - our price: $9.95
by Paramount Home Video
VHS Tape
(02 April, 2002)
(85 reviews) 
Customer Review: Saba Tay on the Tippie Ti.: This movie came and went in theaters so fast I didn't get a chance to see it, but I rented it because Pootie Tang was always funny on the Chris Rock show, |
 | Profile of a Writer: Toni Morrison
list: $19.95
by Home Vision Entertainment
VHS Tape
(20 December, 1993)
(2 reviews)
Editorial Review: Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is one of the leading novelists in the United States.Her work--from The Bluest Eye to Song of Solomon to Jazz--is noted for its vivid imagery and powerful subjects. |
 | Promised Land
list: $39.98
by Discovery Communication
VHS Tape
(29 December, 1998)
|
 | Richard Pryor - Here and Now
list: $14.95
by Columbia/Tristar Studios
VHS Tape
(02 June, 1993)
(6 reviews) 
Customer Review: Take this as a Warning. I am serious.: This is a warning to anybody thinking of buying this dvd. Here and Now was awful. From the beginning you can see the stupid audience members heckling and bothering pryor. |
 | Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
list: $19.98 - our price: $19.98
by Mpi Home Video
VHS Tape
(30 January, 1996)
(33 reviews)
Editorial Review: Watching Pryor go from imitating a drinking deer to a woman debating about going in the woods gives just a hint of the comedic genius of the man. Crude, foul, and real, this is the first and best of his concert films. |
 | Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
list: $14.95
by Columbia/Tristar Studios
VHS Tape
(25 April, 1995)
(10 reviews)
Customer Review: Very Funny, Bitter, Sad--Worth Seeing In Any Case: One could easily predict that Richard Pryor was going to end up a very sad, embittered figure in his older age, |
 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
list: $9.98
by Artisan Entertainment
VHS Tape
(12 January, 1999)
(38 reviews) 
Customer Review: Roll of Thunder Review: Our class read the book Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor. After that we watched the movie in class. |
 | Roots
list: $54.92
by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(15 January, 2002)
(57 reviews)
Editorial Review: From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home in 18th-century Africa and brought under inhumane conditions to be auctioned as a slave in America, a line is begun that leads from this most shameful chapter in U.S |
 | Rosewood
list: $9.94
by Warner Studios
VHS Tape
(11 January, 2000)
(30 reviews)
Customer Review: excellent docu-drama: What an excellent movie. A moving portrait of the 1922 massacre in Rosewood, Florida. Without shedding too much blood or jeopardizing the truth of the story through unneccessary action, |
 | Rush Hour
list: $6.93 - our price: $6.93
by New Line Home Entertainment
VHS Tape
(02 September, 2003)
(265 reviews)
Editorial Review: The plotline may sound familiar: Two mismatched cops are assigned as reluctant partners to solve a crime. Culturally they are complete opposites, and they quickly realize they can't stand each other. One (Jackie Chan) believes in doing things by the book. |
|
