Spike Lee
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
On 15 September 1963 a bomb tears through the basement of a black Baptist church, taking the lives of four young girls: Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins. This documentary looks at these racially motivated crimes. It features archival film footage, home photographs and comments by surviving family members.
5) Inside man
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...
7) Malcolm X
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The house is rockin’ and the laughs are rollin’ as comedians Steve Harvey (The Steve Harvey Show), D. L. Hughley (The Hughleys), Cedric The Entertainer (The Steve Harvey Show) and Bernie Mac (Life) meet in this riotously comedy summit directed by Spike Lee. Inspired by the highest-grossing comedy tour in history, THE ORIGINAL KINGS OF COMEDY captures four of today’s hottest stand-ups live and uncensored, and in engaging backstage footage and...
Series
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Examines current social conditions in New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina, addressing efforts to restore housing, healthcare, education, economic growth, and law and order, and featuring personal accounts from a variety of affected persons.
11) Hoop dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 289
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This documentary follows two inner-city basketball phenoms' lives through high school as they chase their dreams of playing in the NBA.
12) Bamboozled
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
"In a searing parody of American television, Bamboozled takes a humorous look at how race, ratings and the pursuit of power lead to a network executive's stunning rise and tragic downfall."--container.
14) Crooklyn
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Director Spike Lee fashions a bold, flavorful picture of family life in a crowded but cozy Brooklyn neighborhood nicknamed "Crooklyn" by the Carmichaels, who experience one very special summer in their hometown under difficult but often wonderful circumstances.
17) Clockers
Publisher
MCA Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers grow up together in the same Brooklyn housing projects, but they are as opposite as good and evil. Victor Dunham has a family, works two jobs and leads a respectable life. His 19-year-old brother, Strike, hangs out with his friends on a bench and sells crack cocaine. Strike agrees to kill a rival dealer as a favor to Rodney, the neighborhood drug kingpin, but when the man is murdered, it is Victor who confesses. Detective Rocco Kleine...
20) Chi-Raq
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Chi-Raq is a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play 'Lysistrata' by Aristophanes. After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata organize against the on-going violence in Chicago's South Side creating a movement that challenges the nature of race, sex and violence in America and around the world.