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Race Films DVD Set!
Race
Films were movies made for and by African-Americans during the first half of the
20th century.
Because
these movies were made for African-Americans, they were called Race Films.
These
Race Films provided Black people with images of the African-American experience
that were conspicuously absent from Hollywood films.
Race
Films allowed black actors and actresses to display their acting talent in
serious dramatic roles.
Now
you can watch these Race Films on DVD in the "Race
Films DVD Set!”
In
the "Race
Films DVD Set"
you get 95 full feature length Race Films, plus 45 short Race Films!
In
the "Race
Films DVD Set"
you will get these great full feature length Race Films:
WITHIN
OUR GATES 1920:
abandoned by her fiancé, an educated negro woman with a shocking past dedicates
herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished negro youths.
THE
SYMBOL OF THE UNCONQUERED 1920:
a woman goes West to claim her dead grandfather's mine and encounters trouble.
BODY
AND SOUL 1925:
in his first film, Paul Robeson plays a dual role--a preacher who preys on the
people and the heroine and his brother, a good man.
THE
SCAR OF SHAME 1927:
an educated, upscale young musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic
class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather, who beats and abuses
her. However, once he "saves" her, he won't let his new wife meet his
mother, as he knows she will be angry and disappointed with him for marrying
someone "below his station".
ELEVEN
PM 1928:
an all-Black cast thriller race film.
BORDERLINE
1929:
a Black woman having an adulterous affair with a white man causes his wife to go
mad and re-enforces the towns-folk's prejudice against Blacks.
THE
EXILE 1931:
a Black man, disenchanted with his fiancee, leaves Chicago for the West.
HARLEM
IS HEAVEN 1932:
a girl comes from the south to Harlem looking for work, she gets to become a
star but she has to pay for her stardom and she gets involved in some risky
business.
TEN
MINUTES TO LIVE 1932:
a mystery race film built around a threatening note which gives the heroine only
ten minutes to live.
THE
BLACK KING 1932:
a corrupt preacher gains control of a Mississippi church, and come up with a
plan to scam church members with a back to Africa scheme.
VEILED
ARISTOCRATS 1932:
a lawyer who returns home to find that his light-skinned sister is about to
marry a dark-skinned man. His mother disapproves and has picked a "more
suitable" candidate.
THE
GIRL FROM CHICAGO 1932:
a young Black secret service agent on a case in Mississipi meets and falls in
love with a young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss.
THE
EMPEROR JONES 1933:
a Paul Robeson film. Pullman porter, manages to usurp the throne of the ruler of
a Caribbean island. His lust for power leads to disastrous consequences.
LOUISIANNA
1934:
Saturday Sinners and Sunday Saints Clash in the Battle of Good Against Evil.
MURDER
IN HARLEM 1935:
a black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white
woman. After he reports it, he finds himself accused of the murder.
SANDERS
OF THE RIVER 1935:
Paul Robeson plays Bosambo, a self-appointed leader of the river people who
respects "Sandi," the representative of the English crown in this part
of West Africa. Complications arise when a bellicose tribal chief foments bloody
rebellion by attacking Bosambo's people, and kidnapping his wife.
SONG
OF FREEDOM 1936:
Paul Robeson plays John Zinga, a descendant of slaves, who longs to return to
his homeland in Africa to help his oppressed people.
DARK
MANHATTAN 1937:
a Harlem gangster rise to power. His downfall comes at the end as he is
assassinated by his former associates.
JERICO
1937:
Paul Robeson portrays Jericho a falsely convicted soldier who flees from war
time France to Africa.
THE
SPIRIT OF YOUTH 1937:
a poor black fighter climbs to the top of the boxing world.
THE
BIG FELLA 1937:
a Paul Robeson film. The police is asking him to help find a missing boy.
UNDERWORLD
1937:
a young man, graduate of a Southern black college, who becomes a part of the
Chicago underworld.
GOD'S
STEPCHILDREN 1937:
a light-skinned child abandoned by her mother, doesn't want to acknowledge her
race.
SWING
1938:
Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on
Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.
TWO
GUN MAN FROM HARLEM 1938:
a cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he
assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like him. He
infiltrates the gang to catch the men who framed him.
THE
DUKE IS TOPS 1938:
successful performer who almost loses her man because his career as a producer
is failing.
KEEP
PUNCHING 1939:
a golden gloves champion, agrees to turn professional when approached by a fight
manager, despite the opposition raised by his father and his girlfriend.
GANG
SMASHERS 1939:
Nina Mae McKinney plays an FBI agent who goes undercover to bring down a Harlem
racketeer gangster.
MIDNIGHT
SHADOW 1939:
in a all-black Oklahoma town, a wealthy white man is murdered.
STRAIGHT
TO HEAVEN 1939:
Joe Williams is a chemist who recently lost his job to George Elliott. Joe is
framed for the murder of George. Joe's wife Ida Williams, infiltrates the gang
that framed her husband, to prove Joe's innocence.
LYING
LIPS 1939:
a nightclub singer, is convicted and sent to prison for the murder of her aunt,
a detective set out to prove her innocence.
MOON
OVER HARLEM 1939:
a Harlem widow unwittingly marries a double-talking gangster.
PARADISE
IN HARLEM 1939:
Between swing and blues musical numbers, the story of comedian Lem Anderson,
whose long-awaited chance to act dramatically vanishes when he witnesses a mob
killing and is forced to leave town.
WAY
DOWN SOUTH 1939:
based on the classic critically acclaimed novel by Langston Hughes.
DOUBLE
DEAL 1939:
a gangster is double crossed, and ends up on the wrong end of a policeman's gun.
BRONZE
BUCKAROO 1939:
Bob Blake and his boys arrive at Joe Jackson's ranch to find him missing. While
Slim cheats Dusty out of his money using ventriloquism and marked cards, Blake
tries to find Jackson. Learning that Thorne and his gang hold him prisoner, he
and his men trail them. When Thorne's gang gets the drop on them, Slim puts his
ventriloquism to work.
HARLEM
RIDES THE RANGE 1939:
a cowboy and his sidekick try to help a homesteader from being cheated out of
his property.
THE
DEVIL'S DAUGHTER 1939:
after her father's death, a woman returns to Jamaica to run his banana
plantation but her stepsister wants her out of the way and is willing to use
voodoo.
SON
OF INGAGI 1940:
a newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about
the young girl's father.
MYSTERY
IN SWING 1940:
a murder mystery with terrific music.
GANG
WAR 1940:
two rival gangs struggle to control the juke box machines in Harlem.
BROKEN
STRINGS 1940:
a Black violinist, injury his hands in an automobile accident. His son and
pupils must raise money for his operation.
SUNDAY
SINNERS 1940:
the local preacher is in hot water with some of his congregation because he
tolerates a local night club. The preachers attitude is that so long as they
remain closed on the Sabbath he has no problem with people blowing off a little
steam. However he changes his mind when the club opens on Sunday. Meanwhile the
club owner has other problems on his plate including a gang who wants to provide
protection.
PROUD
VALLEY 1940:
a Paul Robeson film. Paul Robeson is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice
when a pit disaster threatens.
LUCKY
GHOST 1941:
two down-on-their luck friends suddenly hit the "jackpot" when they
win the clothes, car and chauffeur of a rich man in a game of dice. They wind up
in a sanitarium that's being used as an exclusive, though illegal, gambling club
and get mixed up with beautiful women, jealous gangsters and ghosts.
MISTAKEN
IDENTITY 1941:
a murder mystery which involves a woman who works at a nightclub as a performer
and her former boyfriend who escapes from prison.
THE
BLOOD OF JESUS 1941:
a godly young woman in the rural south, is accidently shot by her husband. As
she lies dying, an Angel take her soul on a symbolic journey, while the devil
try to lures her with the temptations of sins.
MURDER
ON LENOX AVENUE 1941:
dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around Pa Wilkins, chosen by
the Better Business League to replace their ousted, crooked leader Marshall, who
wants revenge.
WHERE'S
MY MAN TONIGHT? 1943:
Sergeant Robert L. Keen, an officer of the African-American 25th Regiment, is
sent to many Northern states and all over the deep South on a recruitment tour.
THE
NEGRO SOLDIER 1943:
a film about life for black soldiers in the U.S. Army during World War II.
OF
ONE BLOOD 1944:
an FBI agent goes undercover, and he discover the gang leader is a child hood
friend. The gang leader saved the FBI agent life, when they were youth.
GO
DOWN DEATH 1944:
a bar owner attempts to discredit the new preacher with whom he is feuding by
framing him with a photograph showing him drinking with women with bad
reputations.
THE
BIG TIMERS 1945:
a wealthy society man is dating a beautiful woman who he believes is also in his
"socioeconomic class". In actuality, she is the daughter of a poor
hotel maid.
BEALE
STREET MAMA 1946:
a street cleaner and his pal, find some stolen money which they use to try to
establish themselves in the good life. They are found out and end up losing
everything.
DIRTY
GERTIE FROM HARLEM 1946:
Gertie is on the run from the man she has jilted.
TALL
TAN AND TERRIFIC 1946:
a nightclub owner and his gambling problem which lands him in trouble for a
crime he didn't commit and he loses his club and girl.
THE
GIRL IN ROOM 20 1946:
a girl from a small town in Texas, moves to New York City to pursue her dream of
becoming a singer. However, her dreams prove to be far more difficult to realize
than she had ever imagined.
BEWARE
1946:
a former student come to the rescue of his alma mater (a Black College) by
exposing the unscrupulous tactics of the college president.
SEPIA
CINDERELLA 1947:
a songwriter and a singer who, after trials and tribulations, get back together
to the tune of his "Cinderella Song."
BOY!WHAT
A GIRL 1947:
an ex-prizefighter dress up like a woman, to woo a Chicago businessman to invest
in a business.
JUKE
JOINT 1947:
two broke con men get involved in a small town beauty pageant.
JUNCTION
88 1947:
small town lovers are aided by a visiting showman.
HI-DE-HO
1947:
Cab Calloway is pressured into leaving the Brass NightClub in favor of a
criminally run NightClub across the street.
REET
PETITE AND GONE 1947:
a crooked lawyer, plan to scheme a weathy retired musical star, the musical star
son must stop the lawyer.
LOOKOUT
SISTER 1947:
a cowboy helps a pretty ranch owner save her ranch from the scheming mortgage
holder who wants to foreclose on the ranch so he can claim the oil he has
discovered on the property.
BOARDING
HOUSE BLUES 1948:
an evil landlord intends to evict "Moms Mabley" and her tenants from
her boarding house because she can't pay the rent.
NO
TIME FOR ROMANCE 1948:
a unconfident composer who's discovered by a singing star and both of them make
each other's dreams come true while overcoming a jealous has-been plan to ruined
them.
MIRACLE
IN HARLEM 1948:
a crooked real estate tycoon tricks a trusting young woman out of her small
candy store. When he is found dead, the girl is suspected of the crime.
THE
QUIET ONE 1948:
the story of a young boy growing up in Harlem.
SOULS
OF SIN 1949:
tired of being broke, an unsuccessful gambler engage in illegal activities.
THE
JACKIE ROBINSON STORY 1950:
Jackie Robinson plays himself in the story of his breakthrough to the major
leagues and his early playing career.
NATIVE
SON 1951:
based on the classic novel by Richard Wright. This is the original Native Son
film.
MAGIC
GARDEN 1952:
a mother finds money in the garden, and it changes life for a string of
unfortunates.
THE
JOE LOUIS STORY 1953:
a fictional dramatization of Joe Louis career in the ring and outside the ring.
BURLESQUE
IN HARLEM 1954:
a filmed performance of a Burlesque show in Harlem.
JIVIN
IN BE-BOP 1946:
A musical film starring Dizzy Gillespie.
KILLER
DILLER 1948:
A musical comedy drama film starring: Nat King Cole, Moms Mabley, Dusty
Fletcher, and Butterfly McQueen.
SIREN
OF THE TROPICS 1927:
A Josephine Baker film, The film tells the story of a native girl named Papitou
(Josephine Baker) who falls in love with a French man named André Berval.
ZOU
ZOU 1934:
A Josephine Baker film, Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his
innocence after he's accused of murder.
PRINCESS
TAM TAM 1935:
A Josephine Baker film, A French novelist passes off a African shepherdess as a
princess.
THE
FRENCH WAY 1945:
A Josephine Baker film, Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are
sundered by their parents' feud.
CARIB
GOLD 1956:
The hard-working but struggling crew of a shrimp boat discover a sunken
treasure. Trouble ensues in this dramatic black-cast production. Starring Ethel
Waters and Cicely Tyson! Carib Gold was Cicely Tyson first film.
THE
HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS 1951:
The Harlem Globetrotters is a 1951 movie about the famous basketball team The
Harlem Globetrotters. The movie stars Dorothy Dandridge and the Harlem
Globetrotters. Billy Townsend (played by Globetrotter Billy Brown) drops out of
college to join the famous Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. But then he
starts to think about what direction he should take going forward. Getting into
it with his teammates and trying to please his new wife (played by Dorothy
Dandridge) who is worried about his future.
GO
MAN GO 1954:
Go Man Go is a movie about the famous basketball team The Harlem Globetrotters.
The movie stars Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and the Harlem Globetrotters. The
movie tracks the Globetrotters from humble beginnings through a triumph over a
major-league basketball team, as they struggle to overcome racial
discrimination.
THE
BLACK REBELS 1960:
Teenagers who resort to racially motivated crimes. To combat this problem, the
cops send two recent police academy graduates to a local high school to pose as
students.
CHECKERBOARD
1960:
In a southern town, Black men are falsely accused of beating a White man.
MY
BABY IS BLACK 1961:
The story of an interracial couple in the 1960s as their relationship faces
backlash.
NOTHING
BUT A MAN 1964:
A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in
1960s America.
BLACK
LIKE ME 1964:
Based on the true story of a white reporter who, at the height of the
civil-rights movement, temporarily darkened his skin so that he could experience
the realities of a black man's life in the segregated South.
MURDER
IN MISSISSIPPI 1965:
Seething racial tension when two civil rights workers in Mississippi are killed.
THE
BLACK KLANSMAN 1966:
After a Black man's daughter is killed by the KKK, he seeks revenge by becoming
a Klansman. Whitman Mayo aka Grady from Sanford and Son makes his acting debut
in this movie.
HIGH
YELLOW 1965:
Cynthia Wood is the new girl in town. She is a light-skinned 17-year-old
biracial girl, who tries to pass as white.
ONE
POTATO, TWO POTATO 1964:
A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When
her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is
an improper place to raise the girl, the new husband fights for his parental
rights in court, fighting against a judge who represents the prejudices of the
era. Starring: Bernie Hamilton aka Captain Dobby from Starsky & Hutch, and
Robert Earl Jones, father of James Earl Jones
PURLIE
VICTORIOUS 1963:
An idealistic young man returns to the plantation where he grew up in servitude.
He brings his fiancée Lutiebelle, but hopes to convince the plantation owner
that she is really his cousin to secure the family inheritance. Aiding the comic
complications are his family members Missy and Gitlow and the plantation owner's
endearing but ineffectual son Charlie. Starring: Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Godfrey
Cambridge, Beah Richards
I
PASSED FOR WHITE 1960:
A young girl meets and marries the man of her dreams--only she hasn't told him
that she is half-black, and he and his rich family and friends are white.
Plus
you will get the following 45 short Race Films:
NATURAL
BORN GAMBLER 1916
SPYING THE SPY 1918
ST.LOUIS BLUES 1929
THE MELANCHOLY DAME 1929
FRAMING OF THE SHREW 1929
OFT IN THE SILLY NIGHT 1929
BLACK AND TAN 1929
MUSIC HATH HARMS 1929
A RHAPSODY IN BLACK AND BLUE 1931
THE DARK TOWN REVUE 1931
PIE PIE BLACK BIRD 1932
JUBILEE STRICTLY GI 1932
RUFUS JONES FOR PRESIDENT 1933
THAT'S THE SPIRIT 1933
KING FOR A DAY 1934
BUBBLING OVER 1934
HI-DE-HO 1934
SYMPHONY IN BLACK 1935
JITTERING JITTER-BUGS 1935
AN ALL-COLORED VAUDEVILLE SHOW 1935
BROKEN EARTH 1936
THE BLACK NETWORK 1936
A STUDY OF EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA 1936
BARBERSHOP BLUES 1937
MURDER IN SWING TOWN 1937
HI-DE-HO 1937
THE NEGRO FARMER 1937
WE WORK AGAIN 1937
THE NEGRO IN ENTERTAINMENT 1939
FARMER HENRY BROWNE 1942
THE NEGRO PILOTS 1943
NEGRO COLLEGES IN WAR TIME 1943
BOOGIE WOOGIE DREAM 1944
RATION BLUES 1944
BIPP BANG BOOGIE 1944
BLUES AND BOOGIE 1945
THE NEGRO SAILOR 1945
OPEN THE DOOR RICHARD 1945
ANSWER TO OPEN THE DOOR RICHARD 1945
MIDNIGHT MENACE 1946
WOMAN'S A FOOL 1947
MR.ADAMS BOMB 1949
THE NEGRO IN SPORTS 1949
NEW GIRL IN THE OFFICE 1959
INTEGRATION REPORT 1 1960
THE NEGRO IN INDUSTRY 1962
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1970s Black Movies DVD Set!
The
"1970s Black Movies DVD Set" contains 100 Black Movies from the
1970s!
In the "1970s Black Movies DVD Set", you will get these 1970s
Black Movies:
LOLA COLT (1967) El Diablo and his gang is terrorizing
the town, Lola (played by Lola Falana) persuades the reluctant citizens to take
up arms and take on El Diablo and his gang. Starring: Lola Falana
SLAVES (1969) A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom
from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves
in their revolt. Starring: Dionne Warwick, Ossie Davis
CHANGE OF MIND (1969) To escape terminal cancer, the
brain of a white district attorney is transplanted into a black man's body.
David Rowe (played by Raymond St. Jacques) is the white district attorney who
must now live life as a black man. David Rowe feels the stings of racial
prejudice for the first time. David faces heat from the black community to
convict the white sheriff who killed a black woman. Starring: Raymond St.Jacques,
Clarice Taylor, Janet MacLachlan
BLACK JESUS (1970) The African leader of a popular
revolutionary movement, works secretly to overthrow a colonial government only
to receive the "kiss of death" from one of his most trusted followers.
IF HE HOLLERS LET HIM GO (1970) A wrongfully convicted
Black man breaks out of prison to try and clear himself of raping and murdering
a white woman. Starring: Raymond St.Jacques, Barbara McNair
THE BLACK BRIGADE (1970) Set during world war 2, an
all-black brigade is picked to go on a suicide mission deep behind German lines.
Starring: Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, Rosie Grier, Glynn Turman, Moses
Gunn, Robert Hooks
THE MCMASTERS (1970) When Benjie (played by Brock
Peters) a black man who fought in the Civil War, returns to the southern town of
Ironside, his return is not exactly a welcome one. The white citizens are
already uptight about the color of his skin, but the fact that he fought for the
Union Army and still wears his uniform is all that is needed for hatred and
violence to be fanned. Starring: Brock Peters
THE BIG DOLL HOUSE (1971) Female inmates plot their
escape from a corrupt prison. Starring: Pam Grier
GOODBYE UNCLE TOM (1971) Two documentary filmmakers go
back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
SPEEDING UP TIME (1971) An enraged son seeks vengeance
on the arsonists who set fire to a tenement that resulted in his Mother's death.
THE SHERIFF (1971) A rape case opens racial divisions
in a small town. A black sheriff (played by Ossie Davis) investigate allegations
that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student. Starring: Ossie
Davis, Ruby Dee
THE BUS IS COMING (1971) A young black soldier returns
home to Los Angeles from combat in Vietnam to find out that his brother had been
killed by a gang of racist cops. Angered, he joins a black nationalist group to
take his revenge.
A PLACE CALLED TODAY (1972) Racial tensions arise when
a black lawyer runs for mayor of a racially divided town.
THE BIG BIRD CAGE (1972) Blossom (played by Pam Grier)
is a mercenary who engineer a prison break from the outside.
MISS MELODY JONES (1972) The cautionary tale about a
young black woman willing to do almost anything for fame and fortune.
Unfortunately, it comes at a price.
BLACK GIRL (1972) An aspiring dancer and her wicked
sister's resent their mother's love for a foster daughter. Starring: Brock
Peters, Ruby Dee, Leslie Uggams
TOP OF THE HEAP (1972) A frustrated Black Washington DC
cop decides to circumvent the ponderous court system, and starts meting out his
own sick brand of violent punishment.
BAD BLACK and BEAUTIFUL (1972) Eva Taylor is the
baddest black defense attorney in town! When an innocent man is framed for the
murder of his boss, he hire Eva to get him off.
TO ALL MY FRIENDS ON SHORE (1972) An airport redcap
works hard to get his family out of the ghetto, only to discover that his son
has sickle-cell anemia. Starring: Bill Cosby
NIGHT OF THE STRANGLER (1972) In New Orleans, a Black
man is murdered by a white supremacist group. Disguised as a catholic priest,
his brother come from up north (New York City) to exact vengeance.
STIGMA (1972) Dr.Calvin Crosse (played by Philip
Michael Thomas) is a Black doctor who returns to the all-white town he knows as
home and Discovers a deadly disease threatening the citizens. He must fight
prejudice and time if he is to save the town. Starring: Philip Michael Thomas
THE FINAL COMEDOWN (1972) When an underqualified white
man is given the job that Johnny Johnson (played by Billy Dee Williams) is
infinitely more qualified for, the young black man becomes involved in a
violent, radical movement to rise up against the perpetrators of racism.
Starring: Billy Dee Williams, Raymond St.Jacques, D'Urville Martin
VOYAGE OF THE YES (1972) Orlando Parker (played by Mike
Evans) is in a heated argument with his uncle Pretty (played by Scoey Mitchell)
during the argument Pretty is killed in a freak accident. Orlando is charged
with killing Pretty, over the objection of his mother (played by Della Reese)
Orlando goes on the run. Starring: Mike Evans, Della Reese, Scoey Mitchell
THE MAN (1972) When the President and Speaker of the
House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the
office due to age and ill-health, Senate President pro tempore Douglas Dilman
(played by James Earl Jones) suddenly becomes the first Black President of the
United States. The events from that day to the next election when he must decide
if he will actually run challenge his skills as a politician and leader.
THE BAD BUNCH (1973) The story of a Watts street gang
out for justice.
THE BLACK BUNCH (1973) Four black women are hired to
find a wealthy man's son.
BLACK SNAKE (1973) Story of slaves rebellion. Massa
will get a taste of his own medicine.
FOX STYLE (1973) They call him the Black Fox, he cleans
the scene and makes his name in the money game.
THE BLACK ALLEY CATS (1973) A gang called the Black
Alley Cats search out the street gang that attacked them.
BOOK OF NUMBERS (1973) Two waiters in Depression-era
Arkansas get involved in the numbers racket. Starring: Raymond St. Jacques,
Philip Michael Thomas
BROTHER ON THE RUN (1973) An African-American educator
sets out to find a young black man who has fallen to the wrong side of the law
before the police catch up with him in this crime drama.
THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973) A black man plays
Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to
plot a new American Revolution. Starring: Lawrence Cook, Paula Kelly
CHARLEY ONE EYE (1973) Richard Roundtree plays a Black
soldier in the union army, he is caught sleeping with the general’s wife, he
goes A.W.O.L, and is hunted by a racist bounty hunter. Starring: Richard
Roundtree
SAVAGE (1973) A black American mercenary is wanted by
the Resistance for aiding in the killing their leader only to become their
legendary leader and leading them against his former employers. Starring: James
Iglehart
FIREHOUSE (1973) A Black rookie fireman (played by
Richard Roundtree) is faced with the challenge of his life, being the first
African American among an all-white squad filled with hostility and race rage.
Starring: Richard Roundtree, Sheila E Frazier
ALABAMA’S GHOST (1973) A Black man Discovers a cave
full of old magician's equipment and he uses it to become a national celebrity.
It turns out that his magical equipment is more powerful than he thought. The
movie takes on several bizarre twists involving a take over the world plot.
HIT (1973) Nick Allen (played by Billy Dee Williams) is
a federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose, Allen is determined to
destroy the drug ring that supplied her. To help him track down and destroy the
ring, he recruits Mike Willmer (played by Richard Pryor) whose wife was killed
by a stray bullet from a drug deal gone bad. Starring: Billy Dee Williams,
Richard Pryor
THE ARENA (1974) Female gladiators fight to the death.
Starring: Pam Grier
THE BLACK CONNECTION (1974) These Dudes Got A Plan To
Burn The Man! What's Wrong With The Black Man Winning For A Change!
JIVE TURKEY (1974) Set in 1956 Cleveland Ohio, the head
of a lucrative numbers game is pursued by both the mob and the local police.
JOHNNY TOUGH (1974) With a constant lack of support or
understanding from his parents, a young black boy rebels against the white
establishment.
GET CHRISTIE LOVE (1974) LAPD detective Christie Love
(played by Teresa Graves) goes undercover to break up a drug ring. Starring:
Teresa Graves
THE ZEBRA KILLER (1974) A white serial killer disguised
as a black man terrorizes the city, up to the baddest black homicide detective
on the force to bring him down.
TOUGH GUYS (1974) Lee (played by Isaac Hayes) is a
framed Chicago ex-cop who must clear his name and seek revenge for the loss of
one of his friends. Starring: Isaac Hayes, Fred Williamson
IT'S GOOD TO BE ALIVE (1974) The story of former
Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella, whose career was cut short when he lost
the use of his legs in an auto accident in January of 1958. Starring: Paul
Winfield, Louis Gossett Jr, Ruby Dee
EMMA MAE (1974) A young Black lady from Mississippi
moves in with her relatives in a Los Angeles ghetto. At first she is made fun
of, but eventually she is accepted and plots to rob a bank to raise bail money
for her new boyfriend, who is a jailed drug dealer.
THE BLACK SIX (1974) A black high school student is
caught dating a white girl by the girl's brother. He and his biker gang beat the
boy to death. The boy's brother, who is a member of a black biker gang, hears
about it and comes to town to avenge his brother's death.
TNT JACKSON (1974) Her name is Diana Jackson, but you
can call her TNT Jackson! When TNT Jackson's brother is killed by ruthless drug
dealers, the beautiful young karate expert goes to the most dangerous part of
Chinatown to find the killers. Starring: Jeannie Bell, Stan Shaw
BLACK HOOKER (1974) The story of the conflicted family
of a young African American woman who is making her living as a prostitute. She
lives with her father who is a preacher, her light-skinned son who can pass for
white, and her mother who attempts to be the peacemaker of the family.
THE BEAST MUST DIE (1974) When wealthy businessman Tom
Newcliffe summons a group of guests to his mansion for the weekend, the group is
shocked to learn that one of its members is a werewolf and Newcliffe won't let
them leave until they kill it. Starring: Calvin Lockhart, Marlene Clark
THE BLACK GODFATHER (1974) JJ a rising star in the
black crime scene, is in the process of consolidating his power over the
neighborhood. One of the only remaining obstacles is the white heroin cartel
that is understandably reluctant to abandon such a lucrative market. Tensions
rise between the two rivals, and people on both sides get killed. Eventually,
the matter is destined to come to an explosive confrontation. Starring: Rod
Perry
THE KLANSMAN (1974) In a small southern town a young
white woman has been violently raped by a white man, but the white town
residents immediately declare that the attacker had to be Black, and place the
blame on Garth (played by OJ Simpson), a young black man. Assuming that the men
in white sheets aren't intent on holding a fair and impartial trial, Garth takes
to the woods as the Klansmen lynching party hunts him down, and the battle for
survival begins. Starring: OJ Simpson, Lola Falana
BLACK FORCE (1975) Four Black karate experts are hired
to retrieve a stolen African witch doctor doll.
LORD SHANGO (1975) A tribal priest returns from the
dead to take his revenge on non-believers. Starring: Marlene Clark,Lawrence Cook
SOUL VENGEANCE (1975) An innocent Black man does time
in prison where he is subjected to heinous experiments. Once released, he goes
about extracting vengeance on those who set him up.
LADY COCOA (1975) Cocoa (played by Lola Falana) is
framed by her gangster boyfriend, she is released from jail and out to take down
her ex-boyfriend. Starring: Lola Falana, Mean Joe Greene
BLACK VENGEANUCE (1975) A wrong turn on a Black jazz
singer's road trip results in her car breaking down in an all white town, she is
kidnapped,raped and tortured. She escapes and get revenge. Starring: Leslie
Uggams
DARKTOWN STRUTTERS (1975) A tough biker gang comprised
of African-American women heads off to find a member's mother and her abductor.
A series of wild complications follow. Starring: Trina Parks, Edna Richardson,
Shirley Washington, Roger E.Mosley, Stan Shaw
THE BLACK GESTAPO (1975) General Ahmed has started an
inner-city People's Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts.
When the locals are put under increasing pressure by Mafia thugs, Ahmed's
second-in-command Colonel Kojah asks for permission to start a protection squad
to take more direct action. Ahmed fears this protection squad will just turn
into a vigilante mob, and his prediction soon proves correct. Will Ahmed be able
to wrest control back from the power-mad Kojah, or will he be the mob's next
victim? Starring: Rod Perry, Charles Robinson
BLACK FIST (1975) Leroy Fisk (played by Richard Lawson)
a street fighter for the mafia, is tired of living a life of crime. But Fisk's
former employer controls the city and with the help of a crooked cop on the
take, he isn't about to let Leroy retire in peace. After being paid for his last
fight, Leroy buys a nightclub and settles into life as a respectable businesman.
But things soon take a turn for the worse when leroy's car is bombed killing his
wife and brother-in-law. There's no question as to who is responsible and Leroy
quickly sets out to exact his revenge. Starring: Richard Lawson, Philip Michael
Thomas, John Wesley
EBONY, IVORY and JADE (1976) A gang of thugs kidnaps
female track stars, To get away, the trio are going to have to use all their
fighting skills.
BLACK HEAT (1976) Kicks Carter, a streetwise Las Vegs
Black cop, is out to shut down an upscale hotel that is actually a front for a
host of illegal activities.
BROTHERHOOD OF DEATH (1976) Fresh out of Vietnam a
group of black Vietnam vets return home only to find their southern home town
torn by racial strife. Tired of the injustice, the brotherhood takes action and
go up against the Ku Klux Klan.
JOSHUA (1976) A black soldier returns from fighting for
the Union in the Civil War only to find out that his mother has been murdered by
a gang of white thugs. He becomes a bounty hunter, determined to track down and
kill the men who killed his mother. Starring: Fred Williamson
PIPE DREAMS (1976) Pipe Dreams is a film starring soul
singer Gladys Knight in her acting debut as a woman who attempts to regain the
love of her husband played by real-life spouse Barry Hankerson. Her husband must
choose between reuniting with her or giving in to pressure of the local mob
boss.
VELVET SMOOTH (1976) Johnnie Hill plays Velvet Smooth
in this action crime meller. Velvet Smooth is head of a private detective
agency, specializing in protecting the unprotectable. Her current client is in
deep with a murderous numbers racket. So Velvet Smooth goes undercover to smash
the ring. Starring: Johnnie Hill
DEATH JOURNEY (1976) Fearful that their star witness
might be murdered, two attorneys hire a protector name Jesse Crowder (played by
Fred Williamson) to bring him from Los Angeles to New York. At every turn,
Crowder and the witness face a variety of attacks, including gunfire and
knife-wielding villains. Starring: Fred Williamson
DR BLACK and MR HYDE (1976) An African-American
scientist develops a formula to regenerate dying liver cells, but it has the
unfortunate after-effect of turning him into an albino vampire with a mania for
killing prostitutes. A tough police lieutenant investigating the murders
discovers the existence of the dual-personality killer, and determines to bring
him in.
MEAN JOHNNY BARROWS (1976) Johnny Barrows (played by
Fred Williamson) is unjustly thrown out of the Army, he returns home and winds
up being a gas station attendant. Because of his military training, a mobster
wants to hire him as a hit man. He agrees, now he is caught in the middle of a
rival gang war between two families with disastrous results. Starring: Fred
Williamson
ADIOS AMIGO (1976) Richard Pryor and Fred Williamson
take on the Wild West with nothing but charm and a hysterical sense of adventure
in this tale of con or be conned! Riding the Old West’s comedy range, making
off with bags of cash and charming the bloomers off the local ladies the two
make off like bandits in this crazy slapstick Western! Starring: Richard Pryor,
Fred Williamson
LEADBELLY (1976) The life of Blues and Folk singer
Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and
bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the
south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and
sung during and before the time he spent there. Starring: Roger E.Mosley, Albert
Hall, Madge Sinclair, Lynn Hamilton
NO WAY BACK (1976) Fred Williamson and Don Cornelius
stars in No Way Back. Crowder (played by Fred Williamson) is a man who will do
anything, if the price is right. He is a private detective with a past in the
police force. A woman comes to his office one day and asks if he will find her
husband. He takes the mission, but soon he and his streetwise pal gets into a
lot of trouble with some gangsters. Co-starring Don Cornelius, making his acting
debut Cornelius plays a streetwise hustler. Fans of Soul Train will get a chance
to see a different side the Legendary 'Soul Train' Creator Don Cornelius.
THE RIVER NIGER (1976) Johnny Williams (played by James
Earl Jones) is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to
financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie (played by
Cicely Tyson). But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even
tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to
make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger. Starring:
James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Louis Gossett Jr, Glynn Turman
JUST AN OLD SWEET SONG (1976) A black family from Detroit takes a two-week vacation in the South. The trip changes their lives. Starring: Cicely Tyson, Robert Hooks, Kevin Hooks, Beah Richards
ONE IN A MILLION: THE RON LEFLORE STORY (1977) True story of Ron LeFlore, a troubled Detroit youth who rose from Michigan prisons to star in Major League Baseball. Starring: LeVar Burton
ABAR
(1977) Upon moving into a bigoted neighborhood, the
scientist father of a persecuted black family gives a superpower elixir to a
tough bodyguard, who thus becomes a superpowered crimefighter.
THE BARON (1977) Black actor tries to make his own
movie with an all-black cast, but to make it he's forced to borrow money from
the Mafia. Complications ensue. Starring: Calvin Lockhart, Raymond St.Jacques,
Beverly Johnson
MISTER DEATHMAN (1977) Geoffrey Graves (The Black James
Bond) is a suave secret agent who's sent to South Africa to recover a kidnapped
aerospace engineer before he can reveal the secrets of the government's
experimental "solar shuttle".
MR MEAN (1977) Death has a new name...Mr. Mean. The
Mafia wants the best. Someone who enjoys his work. A man with a bad reputation.
Someone who can stop the bloodbath before it gets started. They just found him.
Fred Williamson stars as Mr. Mean, a ruthless mercenary who loves only one thing
better than life itself - DEATH
GHETTO CHILD (1977) A young ghetto kid despairs of ever
getting out of that environment and making something of himself, until one day
he gets a job as an assistant in a veterinarian's office, and working with all
the animals begins to affect his outlook on life. Starring: LeVar Burton, Ossie
Davis, Roxie Roker, TK Carter
THE GUY FROM HARLEM (1977) Tough streetwise private
investigator Al Connors, who works in Florida but originally hails from Harlem,
is hired by the CIA to guard a visiting African princess. Moreover, Connors uses
all his sharp street smarts and fierce fighting skills to find another woman
who's been abducted by the evil Big Daddy.
DELIVER US FROM EVIL (1977) Violent and dramatic events
dog the life of hot headed rebel Chris Townes. Drifting from one menial job to
another, where he finds resentment and eventually arrest, he finaly loses his
apartment and leaves in a rage. Chris meets Mindy and saves her from the hands
of a violent gang. To thank him she introduces him to a happier way of life.
Then suddenly, this new world is shattered by the most horrific event in Chris's
turbulent life.
THE GREATEST THING THAT ALMOST HAPPENED (1977) A taut,
emotional drama, set during the Christmas season of 1952. When young and
promising basketball player Morris Bird played by Jimmie Walker discovers that
he has leukaemia prior to a major tournament, he must battle to maintain his
winning spirit. This is made much harder by his unsupportive, and often selfish,
widowed father played by James Earl Jones, whose constant wallowing in self-pity
blinds him to his son's emotional needs. Starring: James Earl Jones, Jimmie
Walker, Debbie Allen
BLACK SAMURAI (1977) Robert Sand (played by Jim Kelly)
is an agent of D-R-A-G-O-N the Defense Reserve Agency Guardian Of Nations. When
the daughter of a royal family is kidnapped by a drug dealing voodoo worshipping
ring that sells women into slavery. Sand is assigned to find the daughter,
initially refusing the assignment, Sand is told that his own girlfriend has been
kidnapped by the cult, with her life on the line, Sand immediately springs into
action, staging a one-man assault against the cult leader and every last one of
his minions. Starring: Jim Kelly
GREEN EYES (1977) Green Eyes is a movie starring Paul
Winfield. Disabled Vietnam War vet Lloyd Dubeck can't find work after returning
home. With nothing for him in the States. he returns to Saigon in search of his
Vietnamese mistress, and half breed child they had together. He searches the
streets and orphanages, with no clue to there whereabouts, other then that his
child has green eyes. Along his journey, he be friends a young orphaned street
hustler named Trung, who unintentionally guides Lloyd down a road of self
discovery and redemption for America's part in the war that contributed to the
devastation and poverty now befallen Saigon, forcing Lloyd to finally confront
his personal demons, including the final outcome of where fate brought his
mistress and child after abandoning them years back. Starring: Paul Winfield
BLACK TRASH (1978) A Black reporter fights and takes on
the underworld.
BLACK JACK (1978) In Las Vegas, a group of Black
friends plan to rob the mob controlled casinos and get a little revenge in the
process.
HE WHO WALKS ALONE (1978) A Black civil rights worker
(played by Louis Gossett Jr) returns to his small Southern hometown and runs for
sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.
DEATH DIMENSION (1978) A mad scientist has a plan to
eradicate some people with a freeze bomb that instantly freezes people to death.
It is up to LAPD Detective J.Ash (played by Jim Kelly) to stop him.
ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY (1978) Set in 1933
Mississippi, the story focuses on the Logans, a closely knit, fiercely
independent African-American family battling racism in depression-era
Mississippi. Starring: Morgan Freeman, Janet MacLachlan
BLIND RAGE (1978) Fred Williamson and D'Urville Martin
stars in Blind Rage. Five friends get together and decide to plan an operation
to rob a bank. The main difference between this and other bank-robbing gangs,
however, is that all five men are blind.
DEATH DRUG (1978) A young man in Los Angeles dreams of
striking it big as a singer in the music business. One day he gets signed to a
big record contract, but along with the fame and money he develops an addiction
to the drug PCP. Starring: Philip Michael Thomas
THE INGLORIOUS BASTARDS (1978) Set in Europe during
World War 2, former American soldiers, must sneak into the most heavily guarded
base in German territory, steal the Nazi's most precious military hardware, and
bring it back to the allies. Starring: Fred Williamson
SUPER SOUL BROTHER (1978) Wildman Steve plays a bum who
agrees to allow an experimental drug to be administered to him. What he doesn't
realize is that the doctor who's doing the experiment is a criminal, trying to
create an unstoppable thief that's immune to bullets.
CINDY (1978) This version of the Cinderella tale with
an all-black cast has Cinderella, who wants to marry a dashing army officer,
finding out out that her father, who she thought had an important job at a big
hotel, is actually the men's room attendant. Her wicked stepmother finds out,
too, and complications ensue. Starring: Clifton Davis, Nell Carter, Charlayne
Woodard
FIGHTING MAD (1978) Before shipping home from Vietnam,
Doug Russell, an American soldier who steals a shipment of gold with his two
Vietnam War buddies Marelli and Maghee, but Doug Russell is betrayed by his two
buddies, they cut his throat and throw him in the ocean. Marelli and Maghee, use
their loot and viciousness to muscle their way into Los Angeles under world.
Mean while Doug washes ashore an island inhabited by two Japanese soldiers
stranded there since World War II. They nurse him back to health and he is
taught martial arts. Doug returns to Los Angeles searching for Marelli and
Maghee, he learns that Marelli and Maghee are the top men in town and he begins
slaughtering their cohorts, working his way up the hoodlum food chain. Starring:
Leon Isaac Kennedy,Jayne Kennedy,James Iglehart
TOP SECRET (1978) A veteran American espionage agent (played by Bill Cosby) is sent with a new partner to Italy, in order to track down 100 pounds of missing plutonium before it can be obtained by terroriStarring: Bill Cosby, Tracy Reedsts.
DUMMY (1979) Dummy stars Levar Burton as Lang who is accused of murdering a prostitute. Deaf and unable to communicate with the world, Lang is found incompetent to stand trial and his lawyer Lowell Myers (Paul Sorvino) fights to get him freed from the mental health system. Starring: Levar Burton
FREEDOM
ROAD (1979) Muhammad Ali plays ex-slave Gideon Jackson, a
former Union soldier who returns to his home in South Carolina following the
American Civil War and ultimately becomes a United States senator. Initially
representing black ex-slaves at the state's constitutional convention, Jackson
is elected to the state legislature and eventually to the United States Senate
despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement, and the Ku Klux Klan.
Starring: Muhammad Ali, Ossie Davis, Ron O'Neal, Alfre Woodard
I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS (1979) A true story
based on the early life of actress, professor and author Maya Angelou. The story
traces her life from when she and her brother move in with her mother to the
trauma of being raped as a little girl by one of her mother's boyfriends and the
several years of silence that came after the attack. Starring:
Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Esther Rolle, Roger E. Mosley
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