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42) Malcolm X
Series
Criterion collection volume 1160
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Language
English
Description
The life of Malcolm X, the black activist who became a Muslim and was a leader in the Nation of Islam until his assassination. Special features include: 10 additional scenes, the Academy Award-nominated documentary Malcolm X, and more.
43) Summer of Sam
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1977 in New York City, the heat is soaring to record temperatures, blackouts prompt looting in the streets, and a man who calls himself the Son of Sam is committing a series of gruesome murders. As a group of friends in a small Italian neighborhood become obsessed with the idea that the Son of Sam is someone nearby, the madman's plague of terror becomes the catalyst that prompts relationships to fall apart and trust to disintegrate...
44) Malcolm X
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Born Malcolm Little, his minister father was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. He became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. After getting out of jail, he preaches the teachings, but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca. There he converts to the original Islamic religion and becomes a Sunni Muslim. He changes his name to El-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz and stops his anti-white teachings, having...
47) Bamboozled
Series
Criterion collection volume 1019
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Under pressure to help revive his network's low ratings, television writer Pierre Delacroix hits on an explosively offensive idea: bringing back blackface with "The New Millennium Minstrel Show." The white network executives love it, and so do audiences, forcing Pierre and his collaborators to confront their public's insatiable appetite for dehumanizing stereotypes.
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
"From the time they were kids, Monica and Quincy taught each other how to play, but their commitment to the sport now forces them to choose between each other and the game in Love and Basketball. In Above the Rim, an inner-city high school basketball star impresses a powerful gang leader, who promises him the good life ... a lure which may threaten his college career and entire future"--Container.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Spike Lee is one of the most acclaimed and controversial directors of all time. Now five of his most provocative, thought-provoking films are available in one collection. From the breakout hit dramedy "Do the right thing" to the gritty, urban "Clockers, " Lee peels away life's layers, exposing the ironies, brutalities, rhythms and prejudices of the naked city in this powerful collector's set.
Clockers: a film about the violent world of drug dealing...
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