The Five Heartbeats TRAILER (1991)
In the early 1960's, a quintet of hopeful young African American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improve, turn pro, and rise to become a top flight music sensation. Along the way however, the guys learn many hard lessons about the reality of the music industry with it's casual racism and greed while the personal weaknesses of the members threaten to destroy the integrity of the band.
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The
Five
Heartbeats
Robert
Townsend
Keenan
Ivory
Wayans
Harold
Nicholas
Leon
Diahann
Carroll
Michael
Wright
Troy
Beyer
Harry
Lennix
Hawthorne
James
Tico
Wells
John
Canada
Terrell
Chuck
Patterson
Added: April 8, 2009, 5:47 pm
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AKA "How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass". Melvin Van Peebles stunned the world for the first time, with his debut feature, The Story of a Three Day Pass. Filmed in France and selected as the French entry in the San Francisco Film Festival, Melvin's film was awarded the top prize. Saying it was controversial would be an understatement. In 1968 for a black man to walk up to the podium and accept the top festival award for a film he had to go abroad to make--now that's how you make your mark. After his comedy, Watermelon Man, Melvin was determined to push the Hollywood boundaries with the groundbreaking, and even more controversial, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. Turned down by every major studio including Columbia, where he had a three-picture deal, Melvin was forced to basically self-finance. Risking everything he had Melvin delivered to the world the first Black Ghetto hero on the big screen--whether they were ready or not! More than 30 years later, history is being fashioned again in the telling of this very tale. Mario Van Peebles, Melvin's son, directs an honest and revealing portrait of his pioneering father. Mario now tells the story of the making of Melvin Van Peebles' landmark 1971 film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, including Melvin's struggles to raise money to fund the film under the guise of creating a black porno film. Melvin had ducked creditors, the unions and had to bail out his camera crew after they were arrested because a white cop decided a bunch of Negroes and hippies couldn't have come by that camera equipment honestly. Despite death threats and temporarily losing sight in one eye, Melvin somehow managed to whip into shape a rag-tag, multi-racial crew and finish the film that would give birth to birth of a new era which was about to explode: Independent Black Cinema.
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Baadasssss
Mario
Van
Peebles
Melvin
Joy
Bryant
Ossie
Davis
David
Allen
Grier
Nia
Long
T.K.
Carter
Paul
Rodriquez
Adam
West
Marley
Mandela
Maya
Vincent
Schiavelli
Saul
Rubinek
Sally
Struthers
Glenn
Plummer
blaxploitation
Added: February 15, 2009, 8:56 am
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Coming to America TRAILER (1988)
Trailer for the 1988 film "Coming to America". It is the 21st birthday of Prince Akeem of Zamunda and he is to marry a woman he never saw before. Now the prince breaks with tradition and travels to America to look for the love of his life.
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Eddie
Murphy
Arsenio
Hall
James
Earl
Jones
John
Amos
Madge
Sinclair
Shari
Headly
Eriq
La
Salle
Frankie
Faison
Vanessa
Bell
Calloway
Calvin
Lockhart
Samuel
L.
Jackson
Garcelle
Beauvais
Vondie
Curtis-Hall
Cuba
Gooding
Jr.
Midori
Added: February 15, 2009, 8:21 am
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Trailer for the 1982 film "48 Hrs.". A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
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Eddie
Murphy
Nick
Nolte
James
Remar
Olivia
Brown
Added: February 15, 2009, 7:51 am
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Welcome Home Brother Charles TRAILER (1975)
AKA "Soul Vengeance". A proud black man does time in jail where he is subjected to heinous experiments. Once released, he goes about extracting vengeance on those who put him in prison. This includes both seducing their women and murdering them by a mysterious means. Then the hook is revealed - his murder weapon is his own genitals which are now enormous and super powered as a result of the experiments he endured in prison. You heard me right; he kills with his penis and you see it all!
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Jamaa
Fanaka
Marlo
Monte
Reatha
Grey
blaxploitation
Added: January 22, 2009, 5:01 pm
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Trailer for the 1972 documentary film, "Black Rodeo". Documentary about a rodeo that takes place, for the most part, in Harlem, New York City. Nobody ever told you there were Black Cowboys, did they?
Read BlaxTube Interview with Film Director Jeff Kanew!
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Black
Rodeo
documentaries
Jeff
Kanew
Muhammad
Ali
Woody
Strode
Aretha
Franklin
Ray
Charles
B.B.
King
Little
Richard
black
cowboys
Added: January 22, 2009, 4:54 pm
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Trailer for the 1975 film "Mahogany". Tracy, a young ghetto woman, puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her into the lives of people who are determined to get a piece of her long before she can realize her dream.
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Mahogany
Berry
Gordy
Diana
Ross
Billy
Dee
Williams
Anthony
Perkins
Beah
Richards
blaxploitation
Added: January 22, 2009, 4:26 pm
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Claudine tries to provide for her six children in Harlem while on welfare. She has a romance with Roop, a cheerful garbageman she meets while working on the side as a maid.
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Claudine
Diahann
Carroll
James
Earl
Jones
Lawrence
Hilton-Jacobs
Tamu
Blackwell
Roxie
Roker
David
Kruger
Yvette
Curtis
Eric
Added: December 30, 2008, 10:37 pm
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A Piece of the Action TRAILER (1977)
Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Joshua Burke is a retired detective who has enough evidence on the both of them to put them behind bars. Instead, he offers to maintain his silence if the crooks will go straight and do work at a youth center for delinquents. At first, the crooks are reluctant and unwilling (and so are the kids). As time goes by they gain the trust and admiration of the kids and they start to enjoy the job. All goes well until someone out of the past tells them they have to do one last heist...or else...
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blaxploitation
Piece
of
the
Action
Sidney
Poitier
Bill
Cosby
James
Earl
Jones
Denise
Nicholas
Tracy
Reed
Frances
Foster
Janet
DuBois
Tamu
Blackwell
Eric
Laneuville
Sheryl
Lee
Ralph
Ernest
Thomas
Added: December 30, 2008, 9:25 pm
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