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The Tuskegee Airmen
:Description:Featuring an all-star cast headed by Laurence Fishburne, fireballs of high speed air action explode off the screen in this exciting story of the 'Fighting 99th,' the first squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. Based on the true story. :This true story of the black flyers who broke the color barrier in the U.S. Air Force during World War II is a well-intentioned film highlighted by an excellent cast. Proud, solemn, Iowa-born Laurence Fishburne and city-kid hipster Cuba ...
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Miss Evers' Boys
:Description:Based on the shocking true story, Miss Evers' Boys exposes a 40-year government backed medical research effort on humans which led to tragic consequences. It is 1932 when loyal, devoted Nurse Eunice Evers (Alfre Woodard) is invited to work with Dr. Brodus (Joe Morton) and Dr. Douglas (Craig Sheffer) on a federally funded program to treat syphilis patients in Alabama. Free treatment is offered to those who test positive for the disease included Caleb Humphries (Laurence Fishburne) and Willie Johnson (Obba Babatunde). But when the ...
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A Lesson Before Dying
: :Based on the New York Times No.1 bestselling novel and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Don Cheadle and Cicely Tyson star in 'A Lesson Before Dying.' Grant Wiggins (Don Cheadle) has become resigned to racial injustice in the south. Returning to his home town with a college degree he continues to teach in the same one-room school of his youth. Struggling to make a difference in an oppressive time and place Grant is called upon by two local women Tante Lou ...
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Roots - The Next Generations
:Description:Could there be a worthy follow-up to the most-watched miniseries ever? 'We felt the other did so well,' Alex Haley said, 'that we should just let it hang there.' But Haley began carrying around a tape recorder, dictating more of his family's tales as they came to his memory. Those remembrances filled a 1,000-page transcript: raw material for Roots: The Next Generations. Winner of the Emmy for Best Limited Series, this landmark continuation of a landmark event - with 53 stars and 235 speaking parts ...
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Mama Flora's Family
:Description:Could there be a worthy follow-up to the most-watched miniseries ever? 'We felt the other did so well,' Alex Haley said, 'that we should just let it hang there.' But Haley began carrying around a tape recorder, dictating more of his family's tales as they came to his memory. Those remembrances filled a 1,000-page transcript: raw material for Roots: The Next Generations. Winner of the Emmy for Best Limited Series, this landmark continuation of a landmark event - with 53 stars and 235 speaking parts ...
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Roots
: essential video:From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home in 18th-century Africa and brought under inhumane conditions to be auctioned as a slave in America, a line is begun that leads from this most shameful chapter in U.S. history to the 20th-century author Alex Haley, a Kinte descendant. The late Haley's acclaimed book Roots was adapted into this six-volume television miniseries, which was a widely watched phenomenon in 1977. The programs cover several generations in ...
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A Lesson Before Dying
: essential video:On a bright sunny day in 1948, Jefferson (Mekhi Phifer) sets off down the road to go catch some fish; by the end of the movie's opening sequence, he is the one who's been caught, and wrongly accused of the murder of a white shopkeeper. Racial inequality, at the time, is so pervasive in Louisiana that the white defense lawyer's argument at Jefferson's trial is that his client is not worthy of conviction: 'You might just as soon put a hog in the ...
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