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African American Film Classics (pre 1970)
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Cabin in the Sky - Warner Home Video 9781419817076 Check our catalog Agents of heaven and hell fight for Little Joe's soul after his wife gets him a pardon. Directed by Vincente Minnelli. …More |
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Carmen Jones - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543018827 Check our catalog A sultry plant worker drives a wartime soldier to murder in Jacksonville, Fla. Directed by Otto Preminger. …More |
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The Defiant Ones - Tcfhe/MGM 0027616869364 Check our catalog Two escaped cons, one black - one white, are chained together and must learn to get along to escape capture. …More |
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396054196 Check our catalog Joanna, the beautiful daughter of a crusading publisher and his patrician wife, returns home with her new fianci, a distinguished black doctor. Joanna's mother accepts her decision to marry John, but the interracial union shocks her father. …More |
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Hallelujah - Warner Home Video 9781419817120 Check our catalog A cotton picker turns preacher and meets a Tennessee temptress and her man. Directed by King Vidor. …More |
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Imitation of Life - Universal Studios BL04924DVD000 Check our catalog This is the story of two widows and their troubled daughters, In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living out an emotionally fruitless existence. …More |
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In the Heat of the Night - Tcfhe/MGM 0027616857927 Check our catalog Racial tension is created when a rural southern sheriff and a black northern detective reluctantly join forces to solve a crime. …More |
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Odds Against Tomorrow - Tcfhe/MGM 9780792859055 Check our catalog A nightclub singer and two other men team up to rob a bank. Directed by Robert Wise. …More |
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Pinky - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543106098 Check our catalog A light-skinned nurse respected in New England returns to her grandmother and racism in the South. …More |
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Purlie Victorious MPI Home Video BL05958DVD000 Check our catalog A black preacher returns home to rural Georgia to claim an inheritance and bring down the ruthless plantation owner that he once served. He finds a surprise ally in the plantation owner's son. …More |
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A Raisin in the Sun - Sony Pictures Home Ent 0043396009196 Check our catalog The Younger family, frustrated with living in their crowded Chicago apartment, sees the arrival of a $10,000 insurance check as the answer to their prayers. Matriarch Lena Younger promptly puts a down payment on a house in an all-white suburban neighborhood. Based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry. …More |
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Sergent Rutledge An African-American "buffalo soldier" is accused of rape and murder, but is successfully defended by a white officer during his trial in 1881. |
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Stormy Weather - Twentieth Century-Fox 0024543221838 Check our catalog A veteran entertainer recalls his wife, his colleagues and his career from 1911 to 1936. …More |
