Terence Blanchard
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Spike Lee revisits New Orleans five years after Katrina, and four years since the premiere of his documentary film, When the levees broke. Featuring many of the principals seen in the first production, the 2-part program opens with February's celebratory Super Bowl parade before delving into such issues as relocation, rebuilding, mental-health concerns, economic growth, law and order, and more
5) Crooklyn
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An African-American family experiences a very special summer in their crowded but cozy Brooklyn neighborhood
6) Inside man
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A bank robbery spirals into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a criminal mastermind, a determined NYPD detective, and a power broker with a hidden agenda
7) Eve's bayou
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Premonitions and family secrets pervade the household of a womanizing doctor during the summer of 1962 in rural Louisiana
8) Glitter
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A talented young singer struggling to make it big in New York City learns that the road to success can be as treacherous as it is glamorous
11) Malcolm X
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Through his religious conversion to Islam, Malcolm X finds the strength to rise up from a criminal past and become an influential civil rights leader
12) Original sin
Publisher
MGM DVD/MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A woman's insatiable lust for her wealthy Cuban husband is exceded only by her desire for his fortune
14) 25th hour
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A New York drug dealer reevaluates his life on his last day of freedom before starting a seven-year prison sentence
15) Barbershop
Publisher
MGM DVD/MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An African-American man contemplates selling his family's barbershop on Chicago's South Side
16) A girl thing
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Four episodes depicting a New York City therapist who helps troubled women deal with the unexpected twists and turns of their lives
17) Bamboozled
Series
Criterion collection volume 1019
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Dark, biting satire of the television industry. A frustrated writer devises a plan to revive the minstrel show; but instead of white actors in black face, the show stars black actors in even blacker face. Directed by Spike Lee
18) 4 little girls
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Examines the 1963 murder in Birmingham, Alabama, of four young girls killed by the Ku Klux Klan in the bombing of an African-American church
20) Dark blue
Publisher
MGM DVD/MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In the days leading up to the 1991 Los Angeles riots, a veteran detective trains a rookie cop in the realities of police intimidation and corruption as they investigate a high-profile homicide case