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Series
Criterion collection volume 1209
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Michael Roemer's groundbreaking first feature, sensitively shot by his close collaborator Robert M. Young, is a still-resonant expression of humanity in the face of virulent prejudice. Made at the height of the civil rights movement, Nothing But A Man reveals the toll of systemic racism through its honest portrait of a southern Black railroad worker confronting the daily challenges of discrimination and economic precarity, as he attempts to settle...
2) Black Caesar
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in New York City's Harlem. Angry at the racist society around him, both criminal and straight, he sees the acquisition of power as the solution to his rage.
3) Super fly
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Priest is a prince of the streets, a charismatic businessman who wants out of cocaine-dealing. But a mysterious kingpin doesn't want Priest to change his ways. And that triggers murder, revenge and double-crosses that push Priest into a corner, and heats the neighborhood to flash point.
Publisher
Blue Underground
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
"When Officer Kate Sullivan storms a hostage situation, the whole incident is captured on tape by an unscrupulous media crew who edit the footage to show Kate killing a helpless victim. Now in a coma, Kate's only hope is Detective Sean McKinney, who desperately tries to clear her name. But unbeknownst to him, 'Maniac Cop' Matt Cordell takes it upon himself to exact revenge upon those responsible for smearing her name"--Container.
5) Super fly
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004, c1972]
Language
English
Description
Priest is a cocaine dealer who is just smart enough to know that there's no real future in dealing coke, and makes a proposal to his partner Eddie that would leave them with a million dollar profit each. But Scatter, the dealer who set Priest up in the cocaine trade, is both unwilling and unable to sell them that much product. As Priest looks for a new source for his big score, one of his underlings, Fat Freddie, is picked up by the police. Freddie...
6) Shaft
Series
Criterion collection volume 1130
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss from Italian gangsters,...