 | Various installments in Alex Haley's ROOTS series are featured on this collection. Both ROOTS and ROOTS: THE NEXT GENERATION are included alongside ROOTS: THE GIFT and a selection of new programs about the ROOTS phenomenon. |
BKHfgZmB5g~~_6.JPG) | Hill Harper has previously penned a pair of popular books dedicated to helping young African-American men and women to deal with the unique challenges they face. Now he brings the genders together for a nationwide conversation to explore and... |
 | A little boy in India loses his fine new clothes to the tigers, but while they dispute who is the grandest tiger in the jungle he takes his fine clothes back again. |
 | Winning nine Emmys and viewed by more than 130 million Americans, the NBC mini-series ROOTS greatly impacted American views of slavery and the black experience. It was followed by this massive 14-hour mini-series two years later later in 1979.... |
 | Tyler Perry's gun-toting, irreverent granny Madea (played by Perry himself) has been entertaining theater audiences with plays like MADEA'S FAMILY REUNION and DIARY OF A MAD BLACK WOMAN, and now the hilarity is available for home audiences. This... |
 | AMERICAN BEAUTY tells the story of Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), a suburban father who snaps when he becomes disgusted with his stale, repetitive existence. Burnham lets us know in voice-over from the film's opening that this is the day he dies... |
 | In John Landis' (THE BLUES BROTHERS, ANIMAL HOUSE) dripping black comedy, two American students (David Naughton and Griffin Dunne) on a European vacation wander into a creepy local pub in Northern England and are quickly thrown out. Stranded and... |
 | In John Landis' (THE BLUES BROTHERS, ANIMAL HOUSE) dripping black comedy, two American students (David Naughton and Griffin Dunne) on a European vacation wander into a creepy local pub in Northern England and are quickly thrown out. Stranded and... |
 | The staff members of Camp Firewood, feeling that they have squandered the summer of 1981, are determined to make their last day together count. Crunchy counselor Beth (Jeaneane Garofolo) finds an unexpected love interest in shy, neighboring... |
 | The reemergence of '70s-style exploitation films continues with BLACK DYNAMITE with Michael Jai White (UNDISPUTED II: LAST MAN STANDING) as the man of the title. |
