Through probing exploration and expert commentary, this documentary takes an in-depth look at the evolution of African...
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1984
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Aimed primarily at American football fans, this dramatized biography of Paul Bryant, a celebrated football coach nicknamed...
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1984
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A Chicago cop is wrongly accused of theft and dismissed from the force. In order to clear his name, he goes after the real...
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1983
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Despite an amusing premise -- five blind men commit a bank robbery -- this Filipino crime film fails to rise above its...
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Willie Black
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1978
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Cult director Al Adamson's entertainingly cheesy blaxploitation effort stars Jim Kelly as a wealthy agent for the government...
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1977
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Actor D'Urville Martin held the directorial reins for Fass Black. Disco owner John Poole is threatened with a takeover by the...
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Director
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1977
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1976
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Stand-up comedy legend Rudy Ray Moore's foul-mouthed rap routines took many of the elements of blaxploitation films -- pimps,...
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Director, Willie Green
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1975
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After a series of violent, sexy blaxploitation films like Coffy and Foxy Brown, Pam Grier returned in this more sedate...
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Pilot
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1975
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A black cowboy saves a frontier town from both the law and the bad guys in this western written by and starring Fred "The...
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1974
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1974
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Fass Black owns the Disco 9000, a neon-lit penthouse dance club that's one of the top nightspots in Los Angeles. He also...
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Director
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1973
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This hastily assembled sequel to the blaxploitation hit Black Caesar downplays the gritty drama of that film to create a pure...
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Reverend Rufus
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1973
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Cult director Larry Cohen (It's Alive) directed this violent blaxploitation film. Nasty racist John McKinney cripples a black...
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1973
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1973
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This movie, a sequel to The Legend of Nigger Charlie, tells the story of a Southern colonel in the Civil War who has raided...
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1973
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Five on the Black Hand Side was released at a time when most black-oriented films were bloody action fests. In contrast, this...
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1973
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A man who fights his way to success learns the people who helped him may be his biggest enemies in this action drama. B.J....
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1972
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When an underqualified white man is given the job that Johnny Johnson (Billy Dee Williams) is infinitely more qualified for,...
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Billy Joe Ashley
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1972
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Set in the pre-Civil War South, this western adventure follows three escaped Virginia slaves on their journey into the West....
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1972
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Shot during a jewelry-store holdup, Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway) owes his life to a man (Michael Callan) who rushed to his...
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1971
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African-American activist and actor Melvin Van Peebles directed this comedy-drama starring Godfrey Cambridge as Jeff Gerber,...
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Bus Driver
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1970
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Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) gives African American FBI agnet Harry Dane (Booker Bradshaw) plenty of latitude as...
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1969
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This musical chronicles the rise to fame of C&W singer Grady Dodd (Hank Williams Jr.). The tale begins as the talented young...
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Luke Harper
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1968
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In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her...
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1968
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Davy quits the Monkees when a shady boxing promoter named Vernon (Joseph Perry) decides to groom the long-haired Britisher as...
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1967
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1967
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