Catch the Black Sunshine (1972)
Run with the defiant ones on a race through hell for freedom and fortune!
Gênero : Ação, Drama
Runtime : 1H 42M
Director : Chris Robinson
Sinopse
Two slave brothers, one black, one an albino, discover a treasure map which is taken from them by their foreman. They take it back but are pursued by the foreman. Originally, the foreman seeks the aid of two bounty hunters who pursue the protagonists throughout the film. At the end, both the foreman and the bounty hunters catch up with the two escaped slaves, and the foreman has a change of heart, helping to kill the bounty hunters.
In July 1860, the schooner Clotilda slipped quietly into the dark waters of Mobile, Ala., holding 110 Africans stolen from their homes and families, smuggled across the sea, and illegally imported to be sold into slavery. Surviving Clotilda is the extraordinary story of the last slave ship ever to reach America's shores: the brash captain who built and sailed her, the wealthy white businessman whose bet set the cruel plan in motion, and the 110 men, women, and children whose resilience turned horror into hope.
Peter Batty presents a gripping account of the bloodshed and horror of the American Civil War. From the origins of the unrest between North and South, the specific events of the war and the eventual assassination of Abraham Lincoln, this program is a powerful, comprehensive account of the American Civil War with large scale battle re-enactments, superb contemporary photographs and period music.
Alone on a foreign planet, Cadence teams up with a local bounty hunter to secure her ticket off-world. Along their journey she discovers that her long-lost brother, may finally be within reach.
What happened to the 12 million Africans stolen from their homes? Piecing together the untold story of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, a global business that thrived for centuries.
Hell bent on avenging the death of his father, Johnny Black vows to gun down Brett Clayton and becomes a wanted man in the process while posing as a preacher in a small mining town that's been taken over by a notorious Land Baron.
Music video for Bil Paxton's band Martini Ranch where an outlaw biker arrives at a rough small western town to visit his gal in the local brothel. What he doesn't know is that an all-female posse of bounty hunters is coming for him.
This film sheds light on the little-known history of plantations and the enslaved in North Florida. It seeks to advance a sense of place and identity for thousands of African-Americans by exploring the invisible history of slavery in Leon County.
A luxurious house stands in a deserted region, contrasting with its surroundings. It is a house of prostitution and its inmates are brought there against their will. One of them, Yvette, is helped to escape by Mr Gaston, a regular customer and she tells the story of her ordeal to the police.
Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match.
Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
Although notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker is shot and killed in the 1940s, his spirit remains restless for three decades, until a hypnotist's supernatural nightclub act allows him to take over the body of a mild-mannered law student and seek revenge on those who got him killed.
Cavalgue com os mais duros homens do velho oeste, em um passeio pelo inferno... Com um chefe que é um osso duro de roer (Jim Brown), um jogador esperto (Fred Williamson) e um cruel e frio caçador de recompensas (Lee Van Cleef). Acrescente ainda a este grupo, um mestre das artes marciais (Jim Kelly), uma prostituta desesperada (Catherine Spaak) e vários pistoleiros loucos e gananciosos. Misture tudo isso e solte na fronteira mexicana, e veja todos correrem atrás de uma fortuna em dinheiro vivo, teremos um épico de ação que, conseguiu reunir todos os grandes astros num western urbano e clássico inigualável. Lendários de Hollywood como: Dana Andrews, Barry Sullivan e Harry Carey Jr. co-estrelam esta aventura fantástica, considerada pela crítica como o último grande western da década! Mais uma brilhante performance de Van Cleef, o grande mestre de filmes do gênero ao lado de Jim Brown, Fred Williamson e Catherine Spaak.
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors were transcribed and preserved by the Library of Congress. These first-person anecdotes, ranging from the brutal to the bittersweet, have been brought to vivid life in this unique HBO documentary special, featuring the on-camera voices of over a dozen top African-American actors.
Willie Dynamite is a pimp who operates in New York City. Willie was a big success as a pimp, but now, just as fast as he rose to the top, he has hit bottom. A former prostitute who has become a social worker tries to get Willie to clean up his life while it is still possible.
A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.
Do outro lado do espaço sideral, um pequeno grupo de terríveis criaturas com uma fome voraz escapa facilmente de um asteróide de segurança máxima e parte rumo à liberdade. Eles são seguidos de perto por caçadores de recompensa intergalácticos, que terão muito trabalho para impedi-los de chegar ao seu objetivo final: a Terra. Já no nosso planeta, as criaturas acabam caindo em uma pequena cidade do interior dos EUA, onde começam a devorar tudo (e todos) que vêem pela frente. Ou a vizinhança liderada por Helen Brown tenta combater esta ameaça por conta própria, ou serão todos vítimas destes seres famintos. A batalha começou em outra galáxia… e vai acabar bem no jardim da família Brown.
Bando de assassinos sanguinários liderado pelo perverso Loco esconde-se nas montanhas de Utah. Depois que o marido de Pauline se torna a última vítima de Loco, ela contrata um matador de aluguel, Silence, para se vingar do facínora.
O Jovem Billy the Kid e seu bando fogem em direção à fronteira com o México. Eles são perseguidos por homens-da-lei dispostos a capturá-los a qualquer custo, mas contam com a esperteza e a habilidade no gatilho para empreender fugas espetaculares. Seqüência de "Os Jovens Pistoleiros".