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Author
Language
English
Description
Playing in the NBA for eighteen years, Ray Allen won championships with the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat and entered the record books as the original king of the three-point shot. Known as one of the hardest-working and highest-achieving players in NBA history, this most dedicated competitor was legendary for his sharp shooting.
Playing in the NBA for eighteen years, Ray Allen won championships with the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat and...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The latest in Spike Lee's Chronicles of Brooklyn series, RED HOOK SUMMER tells the story of Flik Royale, a young boy from Atlanta who has come to spend the summer with his religious grandfather, Bishop Enoch Rouse, in the housing projects of Red Hook. Between his grandfather's preaching and the culture shock of city life, Flik's summer appears to be a total disaster, until he meets Chazz Morningstar, a girl his age, who shows Flik the brighter side...
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
10) Undisputed truth
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.
11) Lemon
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Ex-con turned poet/performer Lemon Andersen fights for an exit from generations of poverty by bringing his life's secrets to the New York stage. When Spike Lee steps in to produce his show, Lemon believes he might finally find redemption.
12) Passing Strange
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Spike Lee's adaptation of the Broadway show "Passing Strange" presents the portrait of a musician as a young man. In 1970s Los Angeles, a talented but rebellious middle-class African-American discovers punk rock. Through the intervention of a sincere choir director, the young man travels to Europe, where his talents blossom, but at the expense of those who care for him. The film is based on the life of musician Stew, who appears as narrator and commentator...
14) 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.
15) 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
16) 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
17) 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
19) Summer of Sam
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1977, as the serial killer known as Son of Sam traumatizes New York City, the madman's plague of terror causes relationships to fall apart and trust to disintegrate