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When a newly widowed matriarch receives a $10000 life insurance check she soon learns her family has their own ideas on how to best spend the money. Special features: subtitles in english spanish portuguese korean and thai production notes talent files interactive menus scene selections and much mor...

Tensions flare in this gripping film about a murder on a black army base near the end of World War II. Captain Davenport (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) a proud black army attorney is sent to Fort Neal Louisiana to investigate the ruthless shooting death of Sergeant Waters (Adolph Caesar). Through interview...

The story about three friends growing up in a south central los angeles neighborhood and of street life where friendship pain danger and love combine to form reality. the hood is a place where drive-by shootings and unemployment are rampant. But it is also a place where harmony co-exists with advers...

Unanimous critical acclaim embraces this inventive and extraordinary film from Spike Lee. NewsweekCalls it "astonishing." The Houston post describes it as "exhilarating, joyous and screamingly funny." USA today calls it "1989s best film." This powerful vi...

Starring Academy AwardÂ(r) winners* Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger and Lee Grant, this provocative mystery thriller won** five 1967 OscarsÂ(r), including Best Picture. Highlighted by an evocative score from OscarÂ(r)-winning*** composer Quincy Jones, In The Heat Of The Night is a "powerful film" (Th...

Novelist James Clavell wrote, produced, and directed this 1967 British film (based on a novel by E.R. Braithwaite) about a rookie teacher who throws out stock lesson plans and really takes command of his unruly, adolescent students in a London school. Poitier is very good as a man struggling with th...

Spencer Tracy's last performance was in this well-meaning, handsome film by Stanley Kramer about a pair of white parents (Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) trying to make sense of their daughter's impending marriage to an African American doctor (Sidney Poitier). The film has been knocked over the years ...

Richard roundtree scores as the tough private eye whose hunt for a missing woman puts him in the middle of a syndicate feud. Special features: behind-the-scenes documentary soul in cinema: filming shaft on location feature-length audio commentary by director gordon parks and much more. Studio: Warn...

The hottest day of the year in the bedford-stuyvesant area of brooklyn explodes into events that will change the residents lives forever. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 02/20/2001 Starring: Danny Aiello Ruby Dee Run time: 120 minutes Rating: R Director: Spike Lee...

Actress Kasi Lemmons made an auspicious debut as a writer and director with this delicately handled, wrenchingly emotional drama, hailed by critic Roger Ebert as one of the best films of 1997. Eve's Bayou begins with ominous narration: "The summer I killed my father, I was 10 years old." From that p...