Her racist mother declares that because Gordon is black, their relationship cannot continue, forcing Selina to choose between her family and her heart. Cast: Rod Steiger, Brock Peters, Jaime Sanchez, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Raymond St. When his assistant sacrifices his own life for the pawnbroker during a robbery, Sol is finally confronted with the inherent goodness of the human spirit. Harriet Beecher Stowe's nineteenth-century classic story of the pre-Civil war South. A novice teacher faces a class of rowdy, undisciplined working-class punks in this classic film that reflected some of the problems and fears of teens in the 60's. Joanna, the caucasian daughter of a publisher, Matthew Drayton, and his patrician wife, Christina, returns home with her new fiance, John, a distinguished black doctor. Cobb, Anthony Zerbe, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lee Majors, Barbara Hershey, Yaphet Kotto, Arch Johnson, Chill Wills, Lola Falana, Fayard Nicholas, Dub Taylor. Based on a true story, the special features include an interview with the real Chris Gardner. Special features: Making pursuit: an Italian take on the American dream; Father and son: on screen and off; The man behind the movie: a conversation with Chris Gardner; Inside the Rubik's Cube; "I can" song; director's commentary. But it's when her perfect match, Mark, enters the picture that Kenya is truly thrown into confusion and ultimately, must decide what she truly wants. Cast: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Josh Brolin, Ted Levine, Armand Assante, John Ortiz, John Hawkes, RZA, Lymari Nadal, Roger Guenveur Smith. Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in Harlem.Based on "Be ready with bells and drums" by Elizabeth Kata. Peace-loving Tom is forced to submit to his sadistic master, the evil Simon Legree. Christina's mother accepts her daughter's decision to marry John, but Matthew is shocked by this interracial union, and the doctor's parents are equally dismayed. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges, Nan Martin, Lauri Peters, Carroll O'Connor, Leon Bibb. Lord Byron Jones is a black businessman who owns a successful undertaking business, and is married to the very young and desirable Emma. Special features: An introduction to the film by Blair Underwood; "The do's and dont's of dating": from lust to love, the cast of 'Something New' gives everyone something to laugh about with their hilarious insights on the dating scene; the making-of 'Something New': go behind the scenes with the cast and crew and see exclusive never-before-seen footage from the set. Disc one: Unrated extended version (177 min.) ; Original theatrical version (158 min.) -- Disc two: Special features (ca. He does so by buying heroin directly from a source in South East Asia. [Inside joke: "calcimine" is whitewash, and yet most of these black actors appear to have darkened their complexions with blackface makeup.] The group meets in the back of a saloon. "The Black Image in Protective Custody: Hollywood's Biracial Buddy Films of the Eighties." In: Black American cinema / edited by Manthia Diawara. Based on the novel, A gathering of old men, by Ernest J. Past and future overlap as the movie explores Bird's relationship with his steadfast wife Chan Parker, his soaring skill and destructive excesses with alcohol and drugs. Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Ontkean, Kathleen Quinlan, Spalding Gray, Beverly Todd, Neil Patrick Harris. Set in Mississippi in 1964, this is a fictionalized version of the case of the murder of three young civil rights workers, the FBI's attempts to find the missing boys and the clash between the authorities and the locals in a Klan-dominated town. After a friend discovers a money-laundering scheme and is murdered, the band members take the law into their own hands and avenge their friend's death. A German shepherd is adopted by an actress who learns that the dog has been trained to attack only African Americans. " includes behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the cast; deleted scenes; music video "How deep is your love;" original featurette "A piece of the action" behind-the-scenes of Rush hour; short film "Whatever happened to Mason Reese? Now, after an emotional reunion, Dwayne and Mai face conflicting feelings over their identities and loyalites in this touching and funny look at what it means to be family. A gang kingpin is looking to get out of the game after one final deal, only to have his trusted lieutenant betray him.
Kingfish teaches Andy to fly: Kingfish talks Andy into flying lessons so he can impress the ladies. Based on the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play from Edna Ferber's novel. A 12-year-old girl learns something about life when her sister gets married a Based on a story by Carson Mc Cullers. (Full text available online (UC Berkeley users only); Print: Music ML2075 . Cast: Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efram Zimbalist, Jr., Rex Reason, Carolle Drake, Juanita Moore. The plot centers on these two convicts fleeing a chain gang in the deep South. Draws the audience into an underworld of backstairs and neon gutters with the story of an exploited black maid (played by a white actress) and her daughter trying to pass for white. It's too much to resist for Earl Slater, a bigoted ex-con slumming through life with a patronizing girlfriend and zero expectations. The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies / Ray Carney. When Lola's boyfriend is killed in a gang fight she starts to fall for Frank. (Black Rebels) DVD X3088; vhs 951 Directed by Daniel Petrie. Percy never guessed that his daughter was involved in an interracial relationship. Cast: Terrence Howard, Anthony Anderson, Taryn Manning, Taraji P. When he hears that rap superstar Skinny Black is heading to his area, DJay decides to throw together a supreme hustle to grab Skinny's attention. A young girl traveling across 1930's America with her father, discovers a plantation that doesn't know that slavery has been abolished. Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon, Albert Finney, Youssou N'Dour, Ciaran Hinds. A rare collection of early Our Gang and Little Rascals television episodes poking fun at colored folks. Cast: Paul Robeson, Eslanda Robeson, Helga Doorn, Gavin Arthur, Charlotte Arthur, Blanche Lewin. Meanwhile, Amos 'n' Andy, after spending the night in a haunted house, find the deed. This was a Negro (usually genuine, sometimes a white man in blackface) who would stick his head through a hole and taunt the suckers, who paid a nickel for the privilege of throwing baseballs at the African Dodger. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living out an emotionally fruitless existence. An old-fashioned Southern colonel has disowned his daughter for marrying a Yankee and resists all entreaties for a reconciliation until he succumbs to the charms of his little granddaughter. "White and Black in Black and White: Management of Race and Sexuality in the Coupling of Child-Star Shirley Temple and Bill Robinson." Velvet Light Trap Spring97 Issue 39, p52-65, 14p, UC users only Directed by Archie L. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ann Sheridan. Special DVD features: Commentary by actor Le Var Burton and Black Cultural scholars Herb Boyd and Ed Guerrera; 2 vingage musical shorts: "Rufus Jones for president", featuring Ethel Waters and 7-year-old Sammy Davis Jr.; "An all-colored vaudeville show", featuring Adelaide Hall and the Nicholas Brothers; theatrical trailer. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1993. Cast: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley. "Making Believe: Show Boat, Race, and Romance, 1925-1957." In: Edna Ferber's Hollywood : American fictions of gender, race, and history / J. Smyth ; foreword by Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010. Featuring Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Eldon Grant, Roy Emerton, Marcelle Rogez. Paul Robeson is in fine voice in this musical drama about a GI who, after he accidentally kills a man, escapes into the desert where he joins an African tribe to avoid punishment. DVD 7282; also supplement on DVD X6585 Directed by David Butler. (Full text available online (UCB users only); Print: Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1993.5. "White and Black in Black and White: Management of Race and Sexuality in the Coupling of Child-Star Shirley Temple and Bill Robinson." Velvet Light Trap Spring97 Issue 39, p52-65, 14p, UC users only Performers: Mickey Rooney, Walter Connolly, William Frawley. Stanley returns home to Richmond only to learn that her sister Roy and old flame Craig have fallen in love and plan to marry. (Full text available online [UCB users only]; Print: Main (Gardner) Stacks; PFA E169 . "Lost Boundaries: Racial Interterminacy as Whiteness." In: Visions of belonging : family stories, popular culture, and postwar democracy, 1940-1960 / Judith E. (Full text available online [UC Berkeley users only]; Print: Main (Gardner) Stacks E169 . "Race, Gender and Psychoanalysis in Forties Film: Lost Boundaries, Home of the Brave and The Quiet One." In: Black American cinema / edited by Manthia Diawara. Brown (Amos n' Andy), two black men trying to make it in Harlem whose lives are complicated by the schemes of the Kingfish. "The Buddy Politic." In: Screening the male : exploring masculinities in Hollywood cinema / edited by Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark. Their shared experiences draw them closer as a deep respect and lasting friendship forms. Cast: Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth, Sharmila Tagore, Charles S. In this interracial love story, an African American businessman falls for a beautiful Indian immigrant who's family was expelled from Uganda under the reign of dictator, Idi Amin. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster and Richard Kiley. A black teenage girl living in Brooklyn dreams of medical school, a family, and an escape from the generational poverty of the inner city. Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, Harvey Keitel, Bill Nunn. in 1963 which killed four young African America girls. Starring the Our Gang characters, including Spanky, Alfalfa, Stymie, Darla, Porky, Buckwheat, Butch, Wheezer, Chubby, Waldo, and Hattie Mc Daniel. Richard must find the deed to his family property before he can marry Jean. "In the early twentieth century, many American carnivals and fun fairs featured an "African Dodger". Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. Cast: Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Bill Robinson, John Lodge, Evelyn Venable, Hattie Mc Daniel. All-back cast in Marc Connelly fable portrays the story of God in His heaven and his people on earth as told to a group of Sunday school children. "Black Music, White Movies." In: Slow fade to black : the Negro in American film, 1900-1942 / Thomas Cripps. They marry, settle in Baltimore, and Stanley ultimately drives Peter to drink and suicide. DVD 7387 Selected episodes from the 1950's television sit com which relates the comic adventures of Amos Jones and Andrew H. Special features: Interviews with Jon Davison, Curtis Hanson and Sam Fuller's widow, Christa Lang-Fuller; interview with dog trainers Karl Lewis-Miller; rare photos from the films production; booklet featuring essays by critics J. She gradually unites the other tenement women to help them struggle for a new life. Defying both Miriam's racist husband and the powerful White Citizen's Council, Miriam and Odessa put their lives in danger for civil rights. Johnson, Kevin Thigpen, Ebony Jerido, Jerard Washington, Chiquita Jackson, Kisha Richardson. Masculinity in the interracial buddy film Jefferson, N. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the friendship of their African-American gardener, Raymond--a socially taboo relationship that leads to the further disintegration of life as she knew it. Based on a true story, this television production looks at events surrounding the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.An independently produced horror film featuring an all-black cast. DVD X787; also DVD X1639 Directed by Directed by Tay Garnett. Cast: Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway and his band, Katherine Dunham and her troupe, Fats Waller, Nicholas Brothers. "Performing 'Stormy Weather': Ethel Waters, Lena Horne, and Katherine Dunham." South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association, vol. Based on Tales of Uncle Remus by Joe Chandler Harris. Nick, the proprietor of a Bourbon Street gambling joint, an artistic haven for African-American musicans who gather and jam from dusk til dawn, falls in love with an opera-singing socialite. Cast: Lloyd Bridges, James Edwards, Frank Lovejoy, Douglas Dick, Steve Brodie, Jeff Corey. Written variously by Bob Ross, Dave Schwartz, Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher, Paul West, and Jay Sommers. (Andy) ; Tim Moore (Kingfish) ; Ernestine Wade (Sapphire) ; Amanda Randolph (Mama) ; Johnny Lee (Calhoun). In 1928 New York, spirits are high and jazz, dancing and gangsters rule supreme. A race relations drama about a military murder at a black army base near the end of World War II, and the subsequent investigation of the murder. Special features: Production notes, March to freedom documentary narrated by Paul Winfield, director Norman Jewison's commentary, original theatrical trailer, bonus theatrical trailer. While struggling to support herself and her six children in Harlem by working as a maid for a wealthy family, Claudine meets a charming garbage man, Roop. "From Blaxploitation to African American Film." In: The films of the seventies : a social history / by William J. With the LAPD and the FBI after them, they each become dependent on the other to survive. A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles in this provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America. In August of 1991, an African American boy (Gavin Cato) was accidentally killed by a car driven by a Hasidic Jewish man in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.Cast: Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan. Petunia Jackson, a poor but devout woman, is burdened with a shiftless husband called Little Joe. A delightful musical strung together with a silly romantic show biz script. After losing his nightclub Nick tries over the course of many years to get jazz the respect and audience it deserves. "A paralyzed African-American war veteran Private Peter Moss (Edwards) begins to walk again only when he confronts his fear of forever being an "outsider." The film utilizes the recurrent theme of a diverse group of men being subjected to the horror of war and their individual reactions, in this case, the hell of jungle combat against the Japanese in WW II. Contents: Disc 7: The adoption -- Leroy's suits-- The convention -- Ready made family -- Kingfish gets drafted -- Disc 8. Harlem's Cotton Club is in the center of it all, where rich upper-eastsiders mix with dressed-up mobsters. But although Roop is smitten with the lovely single mother, his own life trials make him slow to respond to her invitation to a lifetime of love. Four hours later Yankel Rosenbaum was murdered in retaliation.