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A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (1977)
A Raisin In The Sun
A Soldier's Story (1984)
A Time to Kill (Widescreen Edition) (1996)
A Woman Called Moses (1978)
Above the Rim (1994)
Across 110th Street (1972)
Ali
Always Outgunned Always Outnumbered (1998)
Amistad (1997)
Antwone Fisher (2003)
Baby Boy (2001)
Belly (1998)
Beloved (1998)
Big Bird Cage
Big Doll House
Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings, The (1976)
Bird (1988)
Blackmale (2000)
Blacula (1972)
Black Belt Jones
Black Caesar (1973)
Black Gestapo / The Black Six
Black Godfather, The (1974)
Black Like Me
Black Mama, White Mama (1973)
Black Orpheus - Criterion Collection (1959)
Black Samson
Blade - New Line Platinum Series (1998)
Blade II - New Line Platinum Series (2002)
Blazin' (2001)
Body and Soul (1981)
Bojangles (2001)
Bone Collector, The (1999)
Bones - New Line Platinum Series (2001)
Boyz 'N the Hood (1991)
Breakin' (1984)
Bucktown
Bullet (1995)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Carmen Jones (1954)
Cleopatra Jones (1973)
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975)
Clockers
Coffy (1973)
Color Purple, The (1985)
Colors (1988)
Cornbread, Earl and Me
Cotton Club, The
Dancing in September (2000)
Daughters of the Dust (1991)
Dead Presidents
Deep Cover
Devil in a Blue Dress
Diamonds
Dolemite
Dolemite 2: The Human Tornado
Dolemite, Legend of
Dolemite, Shaolin: The Movie
Double Platinum
Down In The Delta
Education of Sonny Carson
Ella Fitzgerald: Something to Live For
Enemy of the State
First Time Felon
Five Heartbeats
Foxtrap
Foxy Brown
Fresh
Friday
Gang Related
Gangstresses
Get on the Bus
Glory
Graffiti Bridge
Greased Lightning
Great African Films: Volume 1
Great African Films: Volume 2
Green Mile, The
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Harder They Come, The - Criterion Collection (1972)
Hell up in Harlem
Higher Learning
Hoodlum
Hot Boyz
Imitation of Life (1934)
Imitation of Life (1959)
In the Heat of the Night
Inkwell
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
J.D.'s Revenge
Jackie Robinson Story
Jason's Lyric
Jesse Owens Story
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
John Singleton Collection (Boyz N the Hood, Poetic Justice, Higher Learning)
Josephine Baker Story
Juice (1992)
Jungle Fever
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
Kansas City (1996)
Kla$h
Krush Groove
Lean on Me
Learning Tree
Living Out Loud
Long Walk Home
Looking for Langston (1989)
Malcolm X Death of a Prophet
Matewan
Philadelphia (1993)
Porgy and Bess (1959)
Ray
Slavery and the Making of America
Soul Food - The Complete First Season (2001)
To Kill a Mockingbird

Unforgivable Blackness - The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, Jack Johnson (1878–1946) - The first African American heavyweight champion of the world the year 1908, and whose dominance over his white opponents spurred furious debates and race riots in the early 20th century a provocative new documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns.

C o m e d y:

A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)
A Piece of the Action (1977)
Adventures of Pluto Nash
Alma's Rainbow
Bad Boys - Special Edition (1995)
Bad Company (2002)
Bamboozled - New Line Platinum Series (2000)
Bebe's Kids
Best Man, The (1999)
Blue Streak
Boomerang (1992)
Breaks, The
Beverly Hills Cop (Special Collector's Edition)
Brother From Another Planet (1984)
Brothers, The (2001)
Buck and the Preacher (1972)
Bustin' Loose (1981)
Car Wash (1976)
CB4 - The Movie (1993)
Chris Rock: Bigger and Blacker (1999)
Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972)
Coming To America
Cooley High (1975)
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Crooklyn (1994)
Do the Right Thing
Dr. Dolittle
Dr. Dolittle 2
Don't Be a Menace
Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
Five on the Black Hand Side
Flip Wilson Show, The - Volumes 1 & 2 (1970)
Golden Child
Gridlock'd
Harlem Nights
High Freakquency
Hollywood Shuffle
Holy Man
House Party
House Party 2
How High
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Let's Do It Again
Men in Black, Collector's Series
Richard Pryor: Here and Now
Undercover Brother
Watermelon Woman, The
Which Way Is Up? (1977)
Wiz, The (1978)