 | A Raisin in the Sun
list: $9.95
by Columbia/Tristar Studios
VHS Tape
(06 January, 1998)
(23 reviews) 
Editorial Review: Lorraine Hansberry's play is given sensitive treatment by filmmaker Daniel Petrie (The Bay Boy). Sidney Poitier heads a fine cast in the story of an African American family in Chicago who are struggling with mixed aspirations, |
 | A Soldier's Story
list: $9.95
by Columbia/Tristar Studios
VHS Tape
(02 June, 1998)
(13 reviews) 
Editorial Review: 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 1940s deep South. |
 | Cabin in the Sky
list: $19.98
by Turner Home Video
VHS Tape
(05 January, 1999)
(13 reviews)
Customer Review: Great music, great cast, Ethel Waters at her best: This is a delightful film. The Broadway score, already one of the finer scores for its time, |
 | 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, |
 | Foxy Brown
list: $9.94
by Mgm/Ua Studios
VHS Tape
(09 January, 2001)
(15 reviews) 
Customer Review: Queen of the Explotation Flicks?: FOXY BROWN is a great movie, but not a great explotation movie. Oddly enough this is the film that got Pam Gier the title "QUEEN OF THE EXPLOTATION FLICKS". |
 | 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, |
 | 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. |
 | 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, |
 | 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. |
 | Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
list: $9.98
by Xenon 2
VHS Tape
(26 November, 1996)
(25 reviews) 
Customer Review: Baadasssss is Bad asss: This movie was revolutionary. Unfortunately it spark the blaxploitation era in cinema, a genre of low budget kill whitey flics, |
 | The Defiant Ones
list: $14.95
by Mgm/Ua Studios
VHS Tape
(03 August, 1999)
(10 reviews)
Editorial Review: This 1958 variation on Huck Finn's adventures with Jim finds a white convict (Tony Curtis) chained to a black convict (Sidney Poitier) as they both escape their captors. With each man literally stuck with the other, |
 | To Sir, With Love
list: $14.95
by Columbia/Tristar Studios
VHS Tape
(06 January, 1998)
(44 reviews)
Editorial Review: Novelist James Clavell wrote, produced, and directed this 1967 British film (based on a novel by E.R. Braithwaite) about a rookie teacher who throws out stock lesson plans and really takes command of his unruly, |
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