Spike Lee
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...
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Two poets with bipolar disorder art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they meet in a treatment facility, their chemistry is instant and intense driving each other to new heights. They pursue their passion which breaks outside the bounds of sanity, swinging them from fantastical highs to tormented lows until they ultimately must choose between sanity and love.
5) Pavarotti
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Ron Howard puts audiences front row center for an exploration of the Voice, the Man, the Legend. Luciano Pavarotti gave his life to the music and a voice to the world. This cinematic event features history-making performances and intimate interviews, including never-before-seen footage and cutting-edge Dolby Atmos technology. A riveting film that lifts the curtain on the icon who brought opera to the people.
6) 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 Southside creating a movement that challenges the nature of race, sex and violence in America and around the world.
8) Inside man
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 97
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Story of the racial tensions that surround a white-owned pizzeria in the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn on the hottest day of the summer. One of the most controversial and thought-provoking films ever made. Bonus material includes commentary with Director Spike Lee and more.
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"From the playground to the pro leagues, Monica and Quincy taught each other how to play the game. Now, their commitment to the sport will force them to make a choice between each other and the game ... between family and team ... between Love and Basketball"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 998
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In 1974, Leon Gast traveled to Africa to film Zaire 74, a music festival planned to accompany an unprecedented sports spectacle: the Rumble in the Jungle, in which late-career underdog Muhammad Ali would contend with the younger powerhouse George Foreman for the boxing heavyweight championship title--'a fight between two blacks in a black nation, organized by blacks, ' as a Kinshasa billboard put it. When the main event was delayed, extending Ali's...
12) Malcolm X
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, c1992
Language
English
Description
The life and times of Malcolm X, who, through his conversion to Islam, overcame his deprived and criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.
Series
Criterion collection volume 249
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
The film is considered one of the most influential political films in history, by Gillo Pontecorvo. Vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, etc. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film is a case study in modern warfare, with its terrorist attacks and the brutal techniques...