All to often, the contributions of African-American actors, directors and producers have been overlooked by the both the entertainment industry and mainstream press. That's why the staff of EZTakes has started a collection of Black Culture Movie collection to highlight films made by and starring Africans and African-Americans, as well as films dealing with the African experience and Black culture both in the USA and world-wide.
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A Century of Black Cinema
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Something Within Me
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U-Carmen (U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha)
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A 90-minute special celebrating the finest Afro-American entertainers ever to grace the silver screen featuring performances from PORGY AND BESS, LILIES OF THE FIELD, GONE WITH THE WIND, COTTON COMES TO HARLEM, WAITING TO EXHALE and many more. more...
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WINNER! Sundance Film Festival: Audience Awards, Filmmakers Trophy, Special Jury Prize. St. Augustine's school is located in the poorest section of the South Bronx. The teachers & principal decided to commit to an arts curriculum, one where the arts more...
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Brilliantly acted and sung by the internationally acclaimed South African theater company Dimpho Di Kopane (DDK), U-Carmen is a stunning adaptation of perhaps the world's best-loved opera, Carmen. Re-imagined in the modern world of South African pool hall more...
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The Jackie Robinson Story
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The Joe Louis Story
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Ninth Street
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Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century, plays himself in his own biography. Traces his life and career from childhood to the Negro leagues to the major leagues. more...
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The life story of Joe Louis, heavyweight boxing champion. Mr. Louis held the title for 12 years, which is longer than any other boxer in history. The film includes some great fight footage of Joe with other legendary boxers, such as Primo Carnera, Max more...
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For over 40 years Junction City, Kansas was known as Sin City. Ninth Street with its notorious stretch of black-owned jazz clubs, bars, and businesses, was known as The Harlem of Kansas. Catering to the GI's of nearby Fort Riley, Ninth Street was home to more...
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Fiela's Child
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Black Action: Disc 1
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Black Samurai
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In Africa a child wanders too far into the Knysna Forest and never returns. Nine years later, two government officials, working on a census, find a white child living with a colored family in the mountains and take him away from the stricken Fiela who more...
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Check out this fine collection of films featuring the baddest cats and sexiest ladies ever to take on the mean streets of the city, you dig! Disc 1 contains three "Black Cobra" movies! more...
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When the daughter of a royal family is held hostage, Jim Kelly, agent of D.R.A.G.O.N., will stop at nothing to destroy the evil organization that abducted her, in this "blaxpoitation" cult favorite. more...
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Jive Turkey & Black Hooker
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Muhammad Ali: The Greatest
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Get Christie Love! & A Real American Hero
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Blaxploitation Double Feature! In "Jive Turkey" it's a turf battle over the mean streets of Harlem! In "Black Hooker" a boy moves in with his African American grandparents and learns what his mother does for a living and why she didn't want him around... more...
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The inside story on the life and career of one of the world's most enduring and endearing heroes, from his early life in Louisville, Kentucky to his triumphant return to the international stage at the 1996 olympics in Atlanta. more...
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Crime Double Feature - Teresa Graves is Christie Love, the first African-American woman hired by the Los Angeles Police Department. She proves her value to the department by working as an undercover operative. Her breakthrough case involves her more...
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Shaolin Dolemite
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Kings County
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Black Action: Disc 3
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What do you get when you mix Kung Fu with the king of Blaxpoitation? A fistful of action and laughs! The one, the original Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore) is back in his most action packed project of his career. more...
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Kings County is the story of how the harsh reality of inner city life can defer the dreams of our American youth. The film follows a day in the lives of four Brooklyn teenagers who sell crack in their neighborhood to little kids, just to they can pursue more...
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Beaten, Betrayed and Bustin' Loose! Disc 3 of the Black Action collection contains "Fighting Mad", "The Guy from Harlem", "Jive Turkey" and "TNT Jackson"! more...
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Black Action: Disc 2
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Firehouse & They Call It Murder
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Amour Infinity
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This collection of films will bust you up, slam you down and blast you into pieces! Disc 2 contains movies from the mid-1970s - "Black Fist", "The Black Godfather", and "Get Christie Love". more...
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Action and Mystery Double Feature - Richard Roundtree portrays Shelly Forsythe, an African American firefighter candidate at an all white firehouse in this drama that was originally developed as a television pilot. Shelly must deal with both the physical more...
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The odds are stacked up against a young East Flatbush, Brooklyn man (Jerry LaMothe). He's lost his job, his girlfriend of five years, and the mother of his child just left him as well. Seeing no end to his streak of bad luck, he almost gives up until he more...
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Barber Shop Jokes
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TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
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Give It Up
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A comedy with four of your most funniest and hungriest comics who perform stand-up inside a real barbershop. So funny it's gonna make you smack yo' mama. more...
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From Amos & Andy to Bernie Mac, TV IN BLACK explores the contributions made by African Americans to the history of television. Utilizing original footage, rarely seen photos, and more than 40 interviews, the documentary reveals and celebrates more...
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Four struggling college girls rob the biggest drug dealers in town just to pay their bills. When their plan backfires, what will the girls do? more...
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Westwood Park: Disc 1
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Oscar's Black Odyssey: From Hattie To Halle
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Black Love
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Forget the "O.C." - We've got the "W.P."! Unique tropical soap opera follows the intertwined lives of Westwood Park residents through issues of love, politics, sex, death and wealth. more...
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From 1930 to 2002, only 39 Academy Award nominations were garnered by African-American actors, with only a very small percentage going on to win. In this documentary, black actors and other artists examine the history of African-Americans in film more...
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This African American-themed Romantic Comedy Follows Rap Star Saafir As He Patrols The Streets Of Los Angeles And Talks To Couples About What Makes Their Relationships Work. more...
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Carry Me Home
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Westwood Park: Disc 4
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Westwood Park: Disc 3
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The music of influential African-American piano and choral composer R. Nathaniel Dett receives expert interpretation by this chorale dedicated to his work, which is the subject of Liam Romalis and Gerald Packer's documentary. The 20-member vocal group is more...
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Unique tropical soap opera follows the intertwined lives of Westwood Park residents through issues of love, politics, sex, death and wealth. Episodes 13-15. more...
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Unique tropical soap opera follows the intertwined lives of Westwood Park residents through issues of love, politics, sex, death and wealth. Episodes 9-12. more...
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