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MONSTER'S BALL
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Fate brings together a black woman (Halle Berry) and the racist white prison guard (Billy Bob Thornton) who was on duty when her husband was executed.
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WATTSTAX
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The Black Woodstock. Held at the LA Coliseum in 1972, this celebration of African-American culture and music featured the best R&B, soul and funk acts of the '60s and early '70s.
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CABIN IN THE SKY
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Minnelli's first chance to direct was by MGM, starring an all-black cast that includes Eddie Anderson, Ethel Waters, Lena Horne, and Louis Armstrong.
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HALLELUJAH (VIDOR)
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King Vidor's vibrant musical, about a poor Southern farmer who becomes a preacher, balances traditional black spirituals with numbers by Irving Berlin.
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COTTON COMES TO HARLEM
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Two Harlem cops suspect a Marcus Garvey-like preacher is advocating a back-to-Africa movement to cover for a much more elaborate scam.
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PATCH OF BLUE, A
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In this out-of-print release, Sidney Poitier befriends a reclusive blind girl (Elizabeth Hartman) who doesn't care about the color of his skin.
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BELOVED (WINFREY)
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Jonathan Demme's film treatment of Toni Morrison's celebrated novel stars Oprah Winfrey as a former slave whose family is haunted by a mysterious presence.
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CRY OF JAZZ, THE
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Cry of Jazz is Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of music and race, foreseeing "the death of jazz" and civil unrest of subsequent decades.
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MURDER OF FRED HAMPTON, THE
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An unprecedented documentary on the slain leader of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party, killed in 1969 by Chicago police. "Political dynamite" (Roger Ebert).
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AFRO PROMO
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Here's an irresistible program of trailers that traces Black Cinema's evolution through the crucial period of 1946-1976.
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BAMBOOZLED
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Spike Lee attacks the continuation of black stereotypes in this broad, angry satire set in the world of contemporary television.
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LOOKING FOR LANGSTON
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Isaac Julien's biography of black American author Langston Hughes is a film about identity, sexuality, racism, repression, role playing and art.
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MUHAMMAD ALI, THE GREATEST
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Instead of fight footage, filmmaker William Klein focuses on Ali's inner circle, the fighter's spiritual and political complexity, and the racial climate of the times.
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SANKOFA
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This Golden Berlin Bear nominated film is attempts to heal the psychic legacy of slavery and to address those in the African diaspora who neglect their own history.
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PAUL ROBESON: PORTRAITS OF THE ARTIST
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Paul Robeson, the unforgettable baritone and outspoken social activist, starred in some of the most important works of early black cinema.
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