Forty Acres & a Mule Filmworks.
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
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Filmed before a live audience in New York City, Mike Tyson recounts his life's highs and lows. He opens up about such subjects as his troubled youth, landmark boxing career, time in prison, and family with the same charisma he showed in the ring.
4) Good fences
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
After moving to a posh neighborhood in Greenwich, Connecticut, an African-American family is forced to confront issues of racism and cultural identity
6) 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
7) Oldboy
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An advertising executive is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his punishment, only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment.
8) He got game
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A convict is granted a temporary release, and the promise of a reduced sentence, to persuade the nation's top college basketball recruit, his estranged son, to play for the Governor's alma mater
10) Amazing grace
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A documentary presenting the live recording of Aretha Franklin's album 'Amazing grace' at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles, in January 1972.
11) Mo' better blues
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A talented trumpet player struggles to balance his career with his personal life
13) Jungle fever
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Friends and family of a married black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary
14) School daze
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
An African-American college student fights a lonely battle against the pervasive mindlessness of his fellow students, who are wrapped up in the relationships, rituals, and rivalries of their Greek societies
15) 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
16) 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
18) Blackkklansman
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
19) 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
20) Clockers
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A burned-out homicide detective's obsession for justice threatens to destroy the wrong man when he pursues a drug dealer