The Piano Lesson (1995) The only one of August Wilson's plays to be filmed (and for television, at that), this 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winner is an amazing piece of work. Adapted by Wilson and directed by Lloyd Richards, who staged it on Broadway, the play deals not just with racism and its effects but with the ongoing legacy and curse of slavery on modern blacks. Set in 1920s Pittsburgh, the story deals with ......Price: $24.19 25 Merchants Used & new
Lesson Before Dying 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 ......Price: $9.99 16 Merchants Used & new
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Price: $74.99 17 Merchants Used & new
Roots 6 Video Box Set 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 ......Price: $79.95 12 Merchants Used & new
My Sweet Charlie Used Price: $26.35 7 Merchants Used & new
Mandela & De Klerk Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid. That segregation was abolished without bloodshed also had much to do with the political maneuverings of South African President F.W. de Klerk, played with convincing and tired resolution by Caine. ......List Price: $9.98 Price: $2.99 You Save: $6.99 (70%) 23 Merchants Used & new
Miss Evers Boys Laurence Fishburne helped shepherd this Emmy Award-winning exposé from American medical history books to the small screen. Anchored in the 1973 Senate inquiry into the infamous Tuskegee Study, the film uses a flashback structure to take us back 40 years as Nurse Eunice Evers (played with honest conviction by Alfre Woodard, who also earned an acting Emmy for her powerful ......List Price: $9.98 Price: $4.49 You Save: $5.49 (55%) 32 Merchants Used & new
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman This 1973 television movie about 110 years of American history as seen through the eyes of a black woman from Louisiana (Cicely Tyson) is a terrific achievement, a window onto racism from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. Tyson gives a career performance as the title character, whose personal life is inextricably woven into the fabric of the African American struggle for ......List Price: $9.99 Price: $6.74 You Save: $3.25 (33%) 23 Merchants Used & new
Don King - Only In America Made for HBO, this film biography of boxing promoter Don King is solid entertainment, thanks to a startlingly real performance at its core by Ving Rhames (who won a Golden Globe award for the role, then gave it away to Jack Lemmon on the TV broadcast). Rhames has the shuck-and-jive, but also the canny intelligence, as the film follows King from small-time numbers runner and ......List Price: $9.98 Price: $0.48 You Save: $9.50 (95%) 28 Merchants Used & new
Mama Flora's Family List Price: $9.98 Price: $0.99 You Save: $8.99 (90%) 40 Merchants Used & new