 | Hallelujah
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $4.35 The first Hollywood film with an African American cast
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 | The Green Pastures
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $13.27 Stereotyping 1935:2007. You make the call
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 | Cabin in the Sky
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.47 Ethel Waters was the star of the first program on a national network featuring an African American. But, What do Rochester and the Calypso Man have in common?
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 | Bamboozled (New Line Platinum Series)
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $2.44 Like or loathe, the message is pretty clear.
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 | Carmen Jones
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.46 Poor Harry. What chance did he really have.
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 | A Raisin in the Sun
Buy new: $21.49 / Used from: $14.84 Can you say "Gated" Communities.
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 | Stormy Weather
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $7.49 In this case, Fred Sanford knew what he was talking about.
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 | Purlie Victorious
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.98 No Land. No Mule. No Problem.
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 | The Great White Hope
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.75 For some, there is no greater threat.
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 | Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored
Buy used from: $29.89 Unity is not a simplistic concept.
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 | Boycott
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $1.25 Profiles in courage.
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 | Malcolm X
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $3.74 Courage has many textures.
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 | Cry Freedom
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $5.11 There were more than Mandela. Yes, I am aware of the obvious inconsistency. See also Idlewild.
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 | The Color Purple (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $9.89 Eleven nominations, zero oscars. HMMMM.
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 | Round Midnight
Buy used from: $6.90 Respect and acceptance often involves tragic consequence, in a Thomas Sowell kind of way.
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 | Sounder
Buy used from: $7.49 First time two Actors in a primarily African American cast are nominated in both major acting categories.
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 | Glory
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.77 When will this nation progress beyond fragmented histories.
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 | The Hurricane
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $0.93 See Great White Hope above.
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 | A Soldier's Story
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $6.57 Colonialism.
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 | Rosewood
Buy used from: $2.54 And then there was Tulsa.
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 | Idlewild (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $0.72 So sue me. It's my list.
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 | She's Gotta Have It
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $3.76 Disco is dead and so is Blaxploitation. Or, at least that's what the pundits said.
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 | Eve's Bayou
Buy used from: $3.41 Debbie Morgan...Oh, yeah. A great mystery film.
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 | What's Love Got To Do With It?
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $5.55 If Tina couldn't play herself, can you think of anyone else who could have pulled this off?
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 | Hustle & Flow (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $0.59 It's hard out...Nah, too easy.
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 | Do the Right Thing
Buy used from: $7.03 Rosie Perez...Wait, wrong list.
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 | Hotel Rwanda
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $0.49 Have I mentioned colonialism before?
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 | Beloved
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $3.71 Comment on a movie based on a Morrison book in succinct fashion. Can't substitute Octavia Butler?
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 | Ali - The Director's Cut
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $3.16 On occasion, strength of character will prevail.
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 | A Lesson Before Dying
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $4.85 Mentality is not easily modified.
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 | Boyz 'N the Hood
Buy new: $14.94 / Used from: $4.40 John Singleton had so much promise.
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 | Ray (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.20 Wanda makes good.
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 | The Last King of Scotland (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $1.98 Even Ugandians thought he was Idi. Consistently inconsistent?
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 | Dreamgirls (Two-Disc Showstopper Edition)
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $1.99 Like I said. It's my list.
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