Dos individuos se enfrentan a la intolerancia y prejuicios de su comunidad para conquistar sus sueños. Alegato antirracista protagonizado por dos grandes actores de color: Wesley Snipes (Demolition Man, El pasajero 57) y Danny Glover (Arma Letal, Sin perdón). Se trata de un melodrama compuesto por varios segmentos, con algunos toques de humor.
Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood, through his rise in the ranks of the Nation of Islam, to his 1965 assassination.
The Black Audio Film Collective’s seventh film envisioned the death and life of the African American revolutionary as a seven part study in iconography as narrated by novelist Toni Cade Bambara and actor Giancarlo Espesito. The stylized tableaux vivants that memorialise Malcolm’s life referenced the early 20th century funeral photography of James Van der Zee’s The Harlem Book of the Dead and the elemental static cinematography of Sergei Paradjanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates.
A detailed biography of famed singer, actor, athlete and activist Paul Robeson. Complete with several interviews and footage of concerts and film clips.
