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Box 5

 Container

Contains 26 Results:

Blaxploitation Film Video Covers , 1929-2004

 File — Box: 5
Identifier: id70844
Scope and Contents

This box contains VHS tapes that are notable for the original video cases. Most of the movies are from the Blaxploitation genre, a controversial film movement. Blaxploitation films contained many common stereotypes. The black community is often portrayed as violent and drug related. However, some people believed the films were examples of black expression and power.

Dates: 1929-2004

Hallelujah!, 1929

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 1
Identifier: id70844
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This film features a young man who accidently kills his brother and then becomes a preacher to seek amends.

Dates: 1929

The Cool World, 1963

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 2
Identifier: id70844
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This fFilm features gang life in Harlem, New York.

Dates: 1963

Cotton Comes to Harlem, 1970

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 3
Identifier: id70844
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The film features two men who work in Harlem. They get sent on a wild goose chase looking for money hidden in a barrel of cotton.

Dates: 1970

Shaft, 1971

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 4
Identifier: id70844
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The film features a Harlem private eye hired to save teenagers kidnapped by the Mafia.

Dates: 1971

Super Fly, 1972

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 5
Identifier: id70844
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This film features a Harlem drug-dealer who wants to make one last sell before quitting the cocaine business.

Dates: 1972

Cleopatra Jones, 1973

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 6
Identifier: id70844
Scope and Contents

The film features Cleopatra Jones, drug traffickers’ deadliest enemy.

Dates: 1973

Enter the Dragon , 1973

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 7
Identifier: id70844
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The film takes Bruce Lee to the island fortress of a criminal warlord, whom Bruce Lee must overcome.

Dates: 1973

Scream Blacula Scream, 1973

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 8
Identifier: id70844
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This film features Dracula’s bloodbrother, Blacula.

Dates: 1973

The Spook Who Sat by the Door, 1973

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 9
Identifier: id70844
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The film features black CIA recruits from Chicago who become freedom fighters after their military training.

Dates: 1973

Black Belt Jones, 1974

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 10
Identifier: id70844
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The fFilm features Pop Boyd, a martial arts champion who opens a studio on land that the Mafia wants to use as a headquarters.

Dates: 1974

Mean Mother, 1974

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 11
Identifier: id70844
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This fFilm features two ex-Vietnam soldiers who pursue the elite drug dealing industries.

Dates: 1974

Soul Vengeance, 1975

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 12
Identifier: id70844
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This film features a young black man who seeks revenge when he is arrested on false charges.

Dates: 1975

Black Heat, 1976

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 13
Identifier: id70844
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The f Film features black drug dealers, mobsters, and undercover cops.

Dates: 1976

Petey Wheatstraw, The Devil's Son in Law, 1979

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 15
Identifier: id70844
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The film features a morally bankrupt man who can save his own life only if he marries the devil’s ugly daughter.

Dates: 1979

Disco Grandfather, 1979

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 16
Identifier: id70844
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The film features a man who owns a disco and declares war on the producers of Angel Dust, a drug corrupting his nephew.

Dates: 1979

Penitentiary 2, 1983

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 17
Identifier: id70844
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This film features a man who seeks revenge on his girlfriend’s killer.

Dates: 1983

Action Jackson, 1988

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 18
Identifier: id70844
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This fFilm features a Detroit police sergeant who is pitted against brutal thugs.

Dates: 1988

One Down Two to Go, 1994

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 19
Identifier: id70844
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The film features friends who are hiding from the mob and hunting a gangster boss, who rigged a karate tournament.

Dates: 1994

The Mack, 1995

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 20
Identifier: id70844
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The fFilm features a man, just recently released from prison, who uses brains and muscles to survive in the city.

Dates: 1995

Black Dragon Fever, 1998

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 21
Identifier: id70844
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The fFilm features the Black Dragon, who teams up with kung fu dynamo Dragon Lee as they take on the Korean and Japanese mafias.

Dates: 1998

Blade, 1998

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 22
Identifier: id70844
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The film features a man named Blade, who is the last hope for humanity, when a bloodthirsty lord declares war on the human race.

Dates: 1998

Blade II, 2002

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 23
Identifier: id70844
Scope and Contents

The fFilm features a vampire slayer who fights to save humanity.

Dates: 2002

Leprechaun, Back 2 The Hood, 2003

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 24
Identifier: id70844
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The fFilm features a gang who goes from rags to riches, and then fights a knife-wielding, car stealing leprechaun.

Dates: 2003

Blade Trinity, 2004

 Item — Box: 5, Object: 25
Identifier: id70844
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This film is the third in a trilogy. It features a vampire hunter who must join forces with a clan of other hunters to find and defeat Dracula.

Dates: 2004