The Black List: Volume Three (2010)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 30M
Director : Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Sinopse
Documentary film interviews leading African Americans on race, identity, and achievement.
Anthony Curtis é um garoto do Bronx, que decide se alistar, deixando tudo para trás. Quando volta da guerra condecorado, descobre rapidamente que não será tratado como herói. Sem profissão definida, respeito, emprego ou dinheiro, a única alternativa é montar algum "esquema para levantar grana". Eles se utilizam de conhecimentos de combate e planejam o assalto a um carro forte.
Um ano após os eventos do Dia das Bruxas, Michael sobrevive aos tiroteio e em 31 de outubro retorna sedento de vingança. Espreita e persegue, Jamie, Rachel, e amigos de Rachel, Michael faz um plano para seduzir Jamie fora do hospital infantil, onde aconteceram os eventos que levam até o confronto na casa de Myers.
If your bedroom has become too small a stage for your air guitar antics, take inspiration from the competitors featured here as they battle their way from the inaugural U.S. Air Guitar Championship to the world championship in Oulu, Finland. Along the way, filmmaker Alexandra Lipsitz documents the fierce rivalries that develop as would-be rock legends vie for top honors in technical accuracy, stage presence and "airness."
In a world overtaken by eternal darkness, the buttoned down entomologist abandons his phantoms to embrace the unknown.
É 1974. Muhammad Ali tem 32 anos e o seu passado é considerado por muitos, nobre. George Foreman é dez anos mais novo e é o campeão mundial dos pesos pesados. O promotor Don King quer fazer o seu próprio nome e oferece aos lutadores cinco milhões de dólares para cada um, para lutarem um contra o outro, e quando aceitam, King só tem que vir com o dinheiro. Ele encontra um patrocinador, Mobutu Sese Suko, o ditador do Zaire, e "Rumble in the Jungle" é definido, incluindo um festival musical que apresenta alguns dos melhores artistas negros da América, como James Brown e B.B. King.
Quando um rico empresário que planejava construir uma fábrica na cidade de Sparta, no estado do Mississipi, é encontrado assassinado em uma rua escura, o chefe de polícia Bill Gillespie pede a seus homens que procurem nas cercanias. O guarda Sam encontra o negro Virgil Tibbs na estação, esperando o trem das três da manhã para Memphis e suspeita dele. Ao revistá-lo e ver a carteira de Tibbs com muito dinheiro, Sam resolve levá-lo para a delegacia.
Musical que acompanha a vida de amigos boêmios que vivem no bairro de East Village, famoso por ser um polo cultural. Explora os encontros e desencontros amorosos entre personagens muito diferentes e as dificuldades em sobreviver da arte em Nova York.
Joey foi criada por seus pais para ter a mente aberta, mas a situação muda quando ela traz um noivo negro para casa. Embora decidida a se casar apesar de qualquer objeção, seu noivo quer a aprovação dos pais dela e dos seus também.
Slacker mostra um dia na vida de jovens deslocados de Austin, Texas. Na maioria, jovens de vinte e poucos anos que não se encaixam nos padrões da sociedade. Os personagens saem e entram em cena e na vida de outros personagens. O filme é recheado com a paranóia, apatia e ódio adolescente típicos dos anos 90. Perfeito para quem gosta de teorias de conspiração, teorias malucas e filosofia (de boteco).
Depois de construir um negócio de mega-sucesso, o músico Summer G (Richard T. Jones) se junta novamente com Sky (Chenoa Maxwell), uma linda mulher que o deixou para ficar com Chip (Blair Underwood). Mas, enquanto as chamas da paixão são re-acesas, o calor deste mortal triângulo amoroso ameaça queimar a todos que o tocam.
A "rockumentary", covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group "CB4". We soon learn that these three are not what they seem and don't apear to know as much about rap music as they claim... but a lack of musical ability in an artist never hurts sales, does it? You've just got to play the part of a rap star...
King Corn is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden, heavily-subsidized commodity dominates the food pyramid from top to bottom – corn. Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naiveté, two college buddies return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa to figure out how a modest kernel conquered America. With the help of some real farmers, oodles of fertilizer and government aide, and some genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hilarious absurdities and scary but hidden truths about America’s modern food system in this engrossing and eye-opening documentary.
The Force Within Us, the sequel to the highly acclaimed and sold out documentary “The Force Among Us”, takes us deeper into the Star Wars experience than just the obsession of collectibles and costuming. Exploring how and why this epic saga has the ability to possess and alter lives, “The Force Within Us” centers on Star Wars as a catalyst for spiritual rebirth… finding personal meaning in life… and inspiring positive change.
An American stealth-bomber pilot shot down over Serbia meets his enemy a dozen years later, in peace, and in friendship.
A 1974 film based on the best-selling autobiography of Sonny Carson who joined a gang and committed petty crime before being sent to prison. After his release from prison he changes his life.
The man whose stand-up career began on a dare returns in this gut-busting performance recorded live in Atlanta. Actor-comedian Eddie Griffin - better known as "the funniest man alive" - unleashes his most daring material yet in this comedy concert. Throughout the 90-minute show, Griffin brings the house down as he touches on his personal life and experiences, using his keen wit and his willingness to say just about anything. (source www.eddiegriffin.com)
"The E.N.D. World Tour" is a concert tour by American hip hop group, The Black Eyed Peas. The tour supports the group's fifth studio album, The E.N.D., which was released in June 2009. It is the group's biggest tour production-wise to date, with the group's female vocalist Fergie stating that they are "trying to up [their] game" and the shows will "utilize a lot of the technology that's out there".
KISS have always had an approach to their fans that on the one hand could be seen as ridiculously crass and on the other as truly generous. And this release, with its three expertly mastered and crammed DVDs--issued with three separate bonus discs--could easily support either view. The second installment in KISS's Kissology DVD series will sort out the casual fans from the true members of the KISS Army. The material included here, after all, begins in 1978, when the band released four separate solo albums at once and their massive popularity began to wane. It continues on through the controversial makeup-free period and ends in '91, as KISS struggled to cope with the ascendancy of grunge over the hair metal style they'd experienced a second boom with. The concert films are pretty great, but the full-length Tom Snyder Tomorrow show appearance is flat-out brilliant,
Em 9 de agosto de 1988, uma canetada mudou o destino da NHL. O Edmonton Oilers, que tinha acabado de conquistar a quarta vitória na Stanley Cup em cinco anos, assinou um acordo que mandou Wayne Gretzky, que era considerado um tesouro nacional canadense e o maior jogador de hóquei de todos os tempos, ao Los Angeles Kings em um acordo multimilionário que envolvia vários jogadores.
Seven days, 45 finalists, one World Champion. Shot on location in Las Vegas, Nevada, Rank takes us from the ranch to the arena for the struggle of the three highest-ranking bull riders competing for the title of PBR World Champion. The three contenders: Justin McBride, a third generation bull rider; Mike Lee, 21 year-old born-again Christian and 34 year-old Brazilian Adriano Moraes, already a two-time PBR World Champion, who has been riding since the age of 18 and is now in the twilight of his bull riding career. This documentary brings the reality of this hazardous sport into focus for the first time. From preparations to ride through severe injuries and finally, victory for one: a gold belt buckle and a check for one million dollars.