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Beat Street

Beat Street (1984) more movies like this

directed by Stan Lathan, Wynn P. Thomas
featuring Rae Dawn Chong, Guy Davis, John Chardiet, Leon Grant, Robert Taylor

Jon Chardiet plays a Puerto Rican youth who targets subway walls for his graffiti renderings. For a while, it looks as though Chardiet's problems will carry the plotline, but before long the film's true raison d'etre comes to the surface. Rap-music deejay Guy Davis, in tandem with such like-minded individuals as music student Rae Dawn Chong, ...

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

Go Tell It on the Mountain (1984) more movies like this

directed by Stan Lathan
featuring Paul Winfield, Rosalind Cash, Roderick Wimberly, Olivia Cole

In this poignant adaptation of James Baldwin's novel about a few generations in the life of an Afro-American family, a young boy's efforts to gain some approval from his Bible-thumping, disciplinarian father takes center stage, and the family's background is told in a series of flashbacks. The story begins in 1935 with young Southerner Gabriel ...

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Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace (1974) more movies like this

directed by Stan Lathan
featuring Butterfly McQueen, Moses Gunn, Slappy White, Stepin Fetchit

Veteran black comedienne Jackie "Mobs" Mabley is featured in her first (and last) starring vehicle, Amazing Grace. Essentially playing herself, Mabley portrays a feisty ghetto dweller who champions the cause of ex-convict Moses Gunn. With the old lady's help, Gunn is elected mayor, then proceeds to clean up his corruption-ridden administration. ...

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987) more movies like this

directed by Stan Lathan
featuring Avery Brooks, Edward Woodward

For years, the name "Uncle Tom" and the title Uncle Tom's Cabin have been synonymous with the most egregious form of racial condescension. John Gay's script for the 1987 film version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin hoped to "set the record straight" and restored the reputation of the 1852 abolitionist novel--mostly by returning to the ...

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The Sky is Gray

The Sky is Gray (1980) more movies like this

directed by Stan Lathan

Ernest J. Gaines' short story The Sky is Gray was adapted for television by Charles Fuller. James Bond III plays the son of black sharecropper Olivia Cole in this haunting period piece. Young Bond takes a trip to the city with his mother, where he experiences at close quarters the hatred and prejudice that his mother has tried to shield him from. ...

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Def Comedy Jam: More All Stars, Vol. 1

Def Comedy Jam: More All Stars, Vol. 1 (2002) more movies like this

directed by Stan Lathan

Some of the best known comedians on the entertainment scene today got their first big break on Russell Simmons' groundbreaking HBO series Def Comedy Jam, and this home video collects raw and uninhibited performances from top-shelf funnymen who've gone on to become headlines on TV and in the movies. Def Comedy Jam: More All Stars, Vol. 1 features ...

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Def Comedy Jam: All Stars, Vol. 6

Def Comedy Jam: All Stars, Vol. 6 (2000) more movies like this

directed by Stan Lathan

Martin Lawrence is your host for this collection of highlights from HBO's high-rated urban comedy showcase Def Comedy Jam. Former Saturday Night Live regular Ellen Cleghorne highlights this program of outrageous, uncensored standup comedy. Other guests include William Stevenson, Aries Spears, and Arnez J. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Def Comedy Jam: All Stars, Vol. 7

Def Comedy Jam: All Stars, Vol. 7 (2000) more movies like this

directed by Stan Lathan

Def Comedy Jam gave many young comics of the '80s and '90s the chance they needed to reach a larger audience and strut their stuff on a national stage. Many of these young comics went on to greater fame and greater paychecks in the years that followed. Two of the names featured here include Mark Curry and Steve Harvey. Rob Ferrier, All Movie ...

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Def Comedy Jam: All Stars, Vol. 8

Def Comedy Jam: All Stars, Vol. 8 (2000) more movies like this

directed by Russell Simmons, Stan Lathan

Many of today's hottest comedians got their start playing Def Comedy Jam, a late-night forum for their explosive brand of comedy. Of course, many of the names first featured here went on to greater fame and fortune in the years that followed. Two of the names featured here are George Wallace and Mike Epps. Rob Ferrier, All Movie Guide

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Def Comedy Jam: All Stars, Vol. 9

Def Comedy Jam: All Stars, Vol. 9 (2000) more movies like this

directed by Stan Lathan

Some of the hottest young comics got their first big break on the stage of Def Comedy Jam. Freed from the shackles of prime time TV, these comedians used the late night forum to strut their stuff and make the jump from comedy clubs to television and movies. Two of the names featured here are Joe Torry and DJ Robo. Rob Ferrier, All Movie Guide

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Def Comedy Jam: More All Stars, Vol. 5 (2003) more movies like this

directed by Stan Lathan

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It's Black Entertainment! (1999) more movies like this

directed by Stan Lathan

Host Vanessa Williams takes audiences on a tour through decades of African-American music and dance -- and explores their influences on the film industry. This made-for-TV special, which includes a historical retrospective of a number of American movies, features interviews with such luminaries as Quincy Jones, Ice-T, Spike Lee, and Russell ...

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Def Comedy Jam: More All Stars, Vol. 2 (2002) more movies like this

directed by Stan Lathan

Russell Simmons' HBO series Def Comedy Jam was one of the first nationwide showcases for African-American comedians, who could perform raw, streetwise material without censorship or interference; many of the show's guests have gone on to become some of the best known comic talents in America today, and this home video collects more highlights from ...

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The Steve Harvey Show [TV Series] (1996) more movies like this

directed by Jeffrey Duteil, Stan Lathan

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Def Comedy Jam, Vol. 12 (1999) more movies like this

directed by Stan Lathan

HBO's series Def Comedy Jam provided a showcase for some of the best and brightest new performers on the urban comedy scene, and this home video presents highlights from the show, with Tracy Morgan, Bill Bellamy, and host Martin Lawrence presenting cutting edge comedy that's definitely too rough for prime time. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Def Comedy Jam, Vol. 11 (1999) more movies like this

directed by Stan Lathan
featuring Joe Torry, Guy Torry

HBO's showcase for the finest young talent in urban comedy, Def Comedy Jam, comes to home video with this release, which features Joe Torry, Guy Torry, and host Martin Lawrence serving up standup too fresh and too raw for network television. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Def Comedy Jam, Vol. 5 (2000) more movies like this

directed by Stan Lathan

This video acts as a highlights reel for some of today's hottest young comedians, many of whom went from stand-up performances on the HBO series Def Comedy Jam to their own television shows and big-screen comedies. Raw, uncensored, cutting-edge humor is the standard for these classic acts from Jamie Foxx, Martin Lawrence, Sheryl Underwood, and ...

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Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry: Season 02 (2002) more movies like this

directed by Danny Hoch, Stan Lathan
featuring Russell Simmons

Seven new half-hour sessions of hilarious, haunting, profane, and profound improvisational poetry are dished up in the second season of HBO's Def Poetry Jam. Produced by Russell Simmons of Def Comedy Jam and hosted by rapper Mos Def, the series, taped at The Supper Club in New York, launches season two with a performance by future Oscar-winner ...

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Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry: Season 03 (2003) more movies like this

directed by Danny Hoch, Stan Lathan
featuring Russell Simmons

The third season of the improvisational performance art series Def Poetry Jam offers the property's biggest lineup of talent yet. In the course of its seven half-hour episodes, the series features such returnees from previous seasons as Black Ice, Danny Hoch, Steve Colman, Jamie Kennedy, Poetri, and muMs, along with the stellar likes of Smokey ...

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The Trial of the Moke (1978) more movies like this

directed by Stan Lathan
featuring Franklyn Seales

From the Broadway Theatre Archive, this performance video of the play Trial of the Moke tells the real-life story of Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper, the first black graduate of West Point military academy. In 1881, Flipper (Franklyn Seales) was involved in a conspiracy and framed for embezzlement by those who didn't want to see him succeed. In 1976, the ...

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Booker (1983)

directed by Stan Lathan

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Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry: Season 04 (2004) more movies like this

directed by Danny Hoch, Stan Lathan
featuring Russell Simmons

Season four of the improvisational, uninhibited HBO series Def Poetry Jam offers a full ten half hours -- three more than any previous season. Accordingly, this batch of episodes features the series' biggest and most stellar talent lineup, performing their own angry, outrageous, profane, profound, and occasionally uproarious verse compositions. ...

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Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry: Season 01 (2001) more movies like this

directed by Danny Hoch, Stan Lathan
featuring Mos Def, Russell Simmons

The inaugural season of Russell Simmons' raw and uninhibited Def Poetry Jam consisted of four half-hour telecasts, originally presented live at The Supper Club in New York. With rapper Mos Def serving as host, the series offers an impressive array of improvisational ethnic poetry, running a gamut from tense and poignant to loud, obscene, and ...

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Almos' a Man (1977) more movies like this

directed by Stan Lathan
featuring LeVar Burton, Henry Fonda, Christopher Brooks, Garry Goodrow, Madge Sinclair, Robert DoQui

Based on the story by Richard Wright, Almos' a Man stars LeVar Burton as a black teenager in the South of the 1930s. Working as a field hand, Burton is frustrated at being considered inferior to the local whites. Perhaps if he purchases a gun, he can prove his manhood. This is the decision he makes-much to the anguish of his mother, played by ...

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