Mario Van Peebles
2) Run the race
Description
Two desperate brothers sacrifice today for a better tomorrow. Reeling from his mother's death and his father's abandonment, Zach, an All-State athlete, finds glory on the football field, working to earn a college scholarship and the brothers' ticket out of town. When a devastating injury puts Zach and his dreams on the sidelines, David laces up his track cleats to salvage their future and point Zach toward hope.
3) Red sky
Description
Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad to recover a cataclysmic WMD. Finding his former partner Tom Craig working as a hired gun for the terrorists, Masters must navigate a fractured friendship, a love triangle, and must take to the red-streaked skies of combat to reclaim his military and personal honor.
Description
The widowed Ellen Brody now finds herself reliving the horrors of the past when a mammoth shark kills her son. Grief-stricken, she travels to the Bahamas to be with her other son, a marine biologist, and his family. There she meets and falls for a carefree airplane pilot. But just as she is putting her life back together, the nightmare of the past returns when her granddaughter is attacked by an all-too-familiar Great White. Determined to end the...
7) Judgment Day
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
A giant meteor is expected to crash into Earth. The only chance to prevent global devastation is the Thor Project, a satellite system that can annihilate the fragment. But Dr. Corbett, Thor's creator, has been kidnapped by a militant religious zealot. Can the government find Corbett in time to save the world?
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Two immortal Scots meet in modern New York after 400 years for a final confrontation which will leave only one alive; MacLeod and Ramirez return to save the Earth from its deteriorating ozone layer; John MacLeod, aka Connor MacLeod, battles the last of the immortals, Kane, in an effort to rid the world of his evil; Duncan MacLeod and Connor MacLeod team together to combat a fearsome band of Immortals; a band of immortals, led by the Highlander, set...
9) Roots
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Tells the story of an African slave sold to colonial America and his descendants.
11) Red sky (DVD)
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad to recover a cataclysmic WMD. Finding his former partner Tom Craig working as a hired gun for the terrorists, Masters must navigate a fractured friendship, a love triangle, and must take to the red-streaked skies of combat to reclaim his military and personal honor.
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Gabriel Richmond has it all, a great career, a loving wife, and daughter and great friends, but why is he so miserable? Witty, probing and emotionally honest, this film is a typical man's search to find his path to happiness in the blizzard of his own life. To make sense of it all, Gabe writes an autobiographical stage play that may just reveal the answer that was under his nose all along.
13) Ali
Pub. Date
c2002, p2001.
Description
Dramatic biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time, the brash, motor-mouthed athlete quickly dominates his sport, meets and marries his first wife, converts to Islam (changing his name from Cassius Clay), and defies the United States government by refusing to submit to military conscription for duty in Vietnam. His world heavyweight champion title thus stripped from him entirely for political...
14) New Jack City
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Gangster film, set in New York City during the 1980s, about a young, rich, smart drug baron who thinks he's untouchable, and the tough, street-smart cops determined to bring him down.
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
A compilation of three short films about the current state of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly in the United States.
Fox vs. Franken: when comedian Al Franken used Fox News' phrase "Fair and balanced" in his satiric book, the network sued. Fox lost in court and Franken earned national notoriety with a bestseller.
Poetic license: explores the implications of state-sponsored art through the story of New Jersey Poet Laureate Amiri Baraka and...
16) New Jack City
Pub. Date
2005
Description
The New Jack cops wage a war on drugs against the angel-of-death kingpin who holds the city in his grasp.
17) Posse
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Western about a mostly black posse who do battle with a pompous, racist colonel, and a vicious white sheriff who wants to take over a peaceful black frontier settlement.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and relentless shark attacks.
19) Redemption road
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Two seemingly different men embark on a music-steeped journey through the American South, learning along the way that life isn't about where you end up - it's how you get there that matters. Somewhere between Austin, TX and Huntsville, AL the two men become unlikely friends. However, every road has an end. In Huntsville, sad truths come to light, with heartbreak and violence lingering in their wake, ultimately leaving both men changed forever.
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