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4) Us
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
When an African American family decides to spend the summer in a small beach town, they discover that they are being stalked by evil doppelgängers of themselves.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Jason and Josh are bound together by the death of their father. Jason puts the past behind him but Josh lives a life full of fear and violence. Jason's responsibilities to Josh eventually interfere with his own dreams for the future, leading to the destruction of both.
Series
Criterion collection volume 945
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An insurance check can allow the Youngers to escape their frustrating life in a crowded Chicago apartment, but escape means different things to each family member.
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corporation
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The River Niger: A house-painter/poet struggles to support his cancer-plagued wife. -- Death of a prophet: Combines documentary footage with reenactments to weave a fascinating work. A suspense thriller which follows the events in the final 24 hours of the life of religious and political leader Malcolm X.
The River Niger: A house-painter/poet struggles to support his cancer-plagued wife.
Death of a prophet: Combines documentary footage with reenactments...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Three months have passed since Lucious Lyon's shocking arrest. Now, released from prison, he and Cookie enter a hostile competition to dominate the music industry. Despite an ongoing feud between their sons Jamal and Hakeem, a stunning betrayal may unite the family against an outside takeover of Empire Records. Meanwhile, Cookie learns a frightening truth about her new lover, and tragedy tests Andre's newfound faith
10) Fences
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A black garbage collector named Troy Maxson in 1950s Pittsburgh is bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues, Maxson is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
"You don't get groundbreaking cinema from Fences, but what you do get - two titanic performances and an immeasurable American drama - makes up for that."--Boston Globe
"Washington and Davis' performances... invite us in...
11) Roots
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1977
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
12) Roots
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel about his African ancestors, that follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War where Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
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