Frances Foster
1924 - 1997James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Karen Thorsen
James Baldwin, Maya Angelou
James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling Americans, black and white, to confront their shared racial tragedy.
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
The First Breeze of Summer
Ethel Ayler, Charles Brown
A portrait of an African American working-class family, this stage production depicts an elderly grandmother's flashbacks to the affairs she had as a young woman and a hard-working father's current conflict with his two unhappy sons.
The First Breeze of Summer
Malcolm X
Spike Lee
Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
Malcolm X
Take a Giant Step
Philip Leacock
Johnny Nash, Estelle Hemsley
This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black high-school student living in a middle-class white neighborhood in the late '50s.
Take a Giant Step
Clockers
Spike Lee
Harvey Keitel, Джон Майкл Туртурро (
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer. Det. Rocco Klein doesn’t buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.
Clockers
Tales of the Unknown South
Jim McMahan, Jim Eddins
James Dickey, Bob Hungerford
Trilogy of films about race and culture in the Deep South from the end of World War I to the civil rights protests of the 1960's. All three stories deal with fear and isolation, and the role of faith in the lives of those who venture alone into what is unknown around them.
Tales of the Unknown South
A Piece of the Action
Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby
How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But how? Burke has never been able to nail the duo, but he uses what he knows of their seedy past to blackmail them into volunteering.
A Piece of the Action
The House of Dies Drear
Allan A. Goldstein
Howard Rollins, Shavar Ross
A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom. Soon they begin to suspect that the ghosts of slaves who passed through there are haunting the house.
The House of Dies Drear
