BWE Presents: Great Moments In Blaxploitation History
Black Wizard Entertainment presents some of the best moments from the classics of 1970s soul cinema.
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Dolemite
Foxy
Brown
Belt
Jones
Super
Fly
Superfly
The
Mack
Pam
Grier
Juanita
Rudy
Ray
Moore
Jim
Kelly
Alan
Weeks
Ron
ONeal
Added: April 30, 2009, 12:16 pm
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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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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song TRAILER (1971)
A young African American orphan (played by Melvin Van Peebles's son, Mario) is taken in by the proprietor of a Los Angeles whorehouse in the 1940s. While working there as a towel boy, he loses his virginity at a young age to one of the prostitutes. The women name him "Sweet Sweetback" in honor of his sexual prowess and large penis. As an adult, Sweetback (Melvin Van Peebles) works as a performer in the whorehouse, entertaining customers by performing in a sex show. One night, a pair of police officers come in to speak to Sweetback's boss, Beetle (Simon Chuckster). A black man had been murdered, and there is pressure from blacks to bring in a suspect. The police ask permission to arrest Sweetback, blame him for the crime, and then release him a few days later for lack of evidence, in order to appease the black community. Beetle agrees, and the officers arrest Sweetback. On the way to the police station, the officers arrest a young Black Panther named Mu-Mu (Hubert Scales). They handcuff him to Sweetback, but when Mu-Mu insults the officers, they take both men out of the car, undo the handcuff from Mu-Mu's wrist, and beat him. In response, Sweetback uses the handcuffs, still hanging from his wrist, to beat the officers into unconsciousness. The remainder of the film chronicles Sweetback's flight through South Central Los Angeles towards the United States–Mexico border. Sweetback is captured by the police for the murders of the police, but escapes when a riot breaks out. Sweetback goes to a woman who cuts his handcuffs off in exchange for sex. With his handcuffs off, Sweetback continues onward, only to be captured by a chapter of the Hells Angels. The female leader of the gang is impressed by the size of Sweetback's penis, and agrees to help him and Mu-Mu escape from the police in exchange for sex. The police find Sweetback and Mumu at the bikers' hangout, but Sweetback escapes on foot while Mu-Mu goes away with the bikers. Mu-Mu and one of the bikers (John Amos) are killed. After his escape from the bikers' hangout, a white man sympathetic to Sweetback's cause agrees to switch clothes with him, allowing the usually velour-clad Sweetback to blend in. The police find Sweetback's former foster mother, who reveals that Sweetback's birth name is Leroy. The film concludes in the desert, where the L.A. police send several hunting dogs after Sweetback. He makes it into the Tijuana River, where he kills the dogs and escapes into Mexico, swearing to return to collect dues.
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Baadasssss
Song
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Mario
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Added: February 15, 2009, 9:05 am
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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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trailers
Eddie
Murphy
Nick
Nolte
James
Remar
Olivia
Brown
Added: February 15, 2009, 7:51 am
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