Spike Lee
3) Spike
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Chroma, an imprint of Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
This career-spanning monograph is a visual celebration of Spike Lee's life and career to date. Featuring hundreds of never-before-seen photographs by David Lee, Spike's brother, this book includes behind-the-scenes, insider images that underscore his creative process, and his significant impact on the culture at large. Print run 15,000.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Playing in the NBA for eighteen years, Ray Allen won championships with the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat and entered the record books as the original king of the three-point shot. Known as one of the hardest-working and highest-achieving players in NBA history, this most dedicated competitor was legendary for his sharp shooting.
Playing in the NBA for eighteen years, Ray Allen won championships with the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat and...
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
From Spike Lee, the legendary director of Do the Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues, comes his electrifying take on the murders in NYC during the summer of 1977. Centering on the residents of an Italian-American Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another. The heat is soaring to record highs, blackouts are filling the streets with looters, and the murders of a man who calls himself the Son of Sam are gripping the 'city that never sleeps'...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Ron Howard puts audiences front row center for an exploration of the Voice, the Man, the Legend. Luciano Pavarotti gave his life to the music and a voice to the world. This cinematic event features history-making performances and intimate interviews, including never-before-seen footage and cutting-edge Dolby Atmos technology. A riveting film that lifts the curtain on the icon who brought opera to the people.
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"From the playground to the pro leagues, Monica and Quijncy taught each other how to play the game. Now, their commitment to the sport will force them to make a choice between each other and the game ... between family and team ... between Love and Basketball"--Container.
9) Inside man
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...
10) Bamboozled
Series
Criterion collection volume 1019
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Under pressure to help revive his network's low ratings, television writer Pierre Delacroix hits on an explosively offensive idea: bringing back blackface with "The New Millennium Minstrel Show." The white network executives love it, and so do audiences, forcing Pierre and his collaborators to confront their public's insatiable appetite for dehumanizing stereotypes.
11) Pariah (Rated R)
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Alike is a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents and younger sister in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. She has a flair for poetry, and is a good student at her local high school. Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and tenacity--sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, but always moving...
12) Malcolm X
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Born Malcolm Little, his minister father was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. He became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. After getting out of jail, he preaches the teachings, but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca. There he converts to the original Islamic religion and becomes a Sunni Muslim. He changes his name to El-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz and stops his anti-white teachings, having...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A story of two poets with bipolar disorder, whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they meet in a treatment facility, their chemistry is instant and intense driving each other to new heights. They pursue their passion which breaks outside the bounds of sanity, swinging them from fantastical highs to tormented lows until they ultimately must choose between sanity and love.
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
BlacKkKlansman: Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and became the head of the local chapter.
Dear white people: A sharp and funny comedy about a group of African-American students as they navigate campus life and racial boundaries at a predominately white college. A sly, provocative satire about being a black face in a white place.
If Beale Street could talk:...
18) School daze
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
A music-filled, off-beat contemporary comedy that takes an unforgettable look at black college life.
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The bank job: A small-time crook takes on a bank heist when an old friend offers him an inside track to the vault. Along with his hastily assembled team of low-rung criminals, Terry finds himself in deep. The group becomes the target of ruthless mobsters, the police, government officials at the highest level, and even the royal family. Based on the true story of a British princess and a sex scandal.
The gentelmen: American ex-pat Mickey Pearson built...
20) Chi-raq
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Chi-raq is a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play 'Lysistrata' by Aristophanes. After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata organize against the on-going violence in Chicago's South Side, creating a movement that challenges the nature of race, sex and violence in America and around the world"--Container.