African Americans Videos

Mrs. Gloria comes back to narrate the history of the immigration of African Americans from the South to California. Production and Direction Carlos Isael and Anthony Propernick -- www.cisael.com

No Guns for Negroes exposes the racist history behind American gun control laws.

No Guns for Negroes exposes the racist history behind American gun control laws.

The Wessyngton Plantation was established in 1796 by Joseph Washington 1770-1848, a cousin of President Washington. By 1860 Wessyngton encompassed more than 15,000 acres and held 274 slaves there. Names associated with the plantation include: Washington, Cheatham, Blow, Green, White, Williams, Terry, Lewis, Scott, and Gardner. John F. Baker extensively traces all of the families from this plantation (descendants of the plantation owners and the enslaved population). He finds the familial connection he felt initially to a photograph in a history book, is tied to his true ancestral heritage.

George O'Brien is Bob Wallace, a Border Patrolman who resigns in protest after being humiliated by the spoiled granddaughter of a millionaire vacationing at a desert resort near the Mexican border. Later, the girl's grandfather hires him to baby sit the girl brat. In the meantime, the young girl is hooking up with a sophisticated jewel thief who plans using her as a "mule" to unwittingly smuggle jewelry across the border. Click to download The Movie Store

Tailspin Tommy, a hit in comics and on the radio of yesteryear, makes his way into features and serials. The film concerns Whitey, a tough pain in the ass kid that Tailspin shows some kindness to get him on the straight and narrow. And he eventually does, until his evil brother, who really is an asshole uses Whitey to lure Tailspin into a trap so the money he was delivering can be stolen after a plane crash. Click here to download The Movie Store

Damaged Lives 1933 is an American film produced by Columbia Pictures and directed by Edgar G. Ulmer about a couple that contracts a venereal disease. Filmed in 1933, this cautionary tale was not released in America until 1937. The film involves an extramarital encounter that nearly leads the wife of the main character into killing herself and her husband. The film was produced under the name Weldon Pictures, because Columbia did not want to be associated with the topic of the film. This film stars Jason Robards Sr. Click here to download The Movie Store

Delightfully Dangerous 1945: Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is distraught just before performing at her school, a visiting Broadway producer encourages her by telling her positive things about her sister. Soon afterwards, Sherry decides to make a surprise trip to New York to visit Josephine - but what she finds there is not at all what she expected, Sherry finds out her sister is in burlesque. This movie stars Jane Powell and Ralph Bellamy Click here to download The Movie Store

Born to Gamble 1935 Four brothers try to break a generations-old family curse that turns them into reckless wagers in this engaging drama based on the Edgar Wallace novel "The Green Poropoulos." And we decided to run this flick today in honor of the following recent headlines:LAS Vegas - A prosecutor says retired NBA star Charles Barkley will face felony charges if he fails to repay a US$400,000 gambling debt to a Las Vegas Strip casino.Clark County District Attorney David Roger says Barkley will get a chance to make restitution to Wynn Las Vegas to avoid felony bad check charges. The casino alleges in court documents filed Wednesday that Barkley failed to repay four $100,000 casino markers, or loans, he received last Oct. 18 and 19.Barkley played 16 NBA seasons. He's now a basketball analyst for TNT. It should be noted, Barkley stated he has paid all of his outstanding gambling debts and vowed not to gamble anymore last night while providing analyst for the Spurs Hornets game seven. Spurs won. Click here to down load The Movie Store

Ghost Patrol 1936 A Professor has an invention that will bring down planes causing them to crash and some really smart crook is forcing him to use it on planes carrying cash. When the hero arrives to investigate he is mistaken for a noted outlaw. So he assumes that identity to force the bad guys to make him a partner. But just as a plane bringing our hero help, his true identity is discovered and while he is a prisoner, the crooks force the professor to start his machine to jack their asses up big time. This is the first Sci-Fi western we got. Click here to download The Movie Store

Horror of the Zombies 1974 The Blind Dead are all at sea, but unfortunately so is the plot, in this third installment of DeOssorio's "Blind Dead" series. Undead Templar Knights of this film are adrift aboard an ancient Spanish galleon which rolls out of the ghostly fog to attack a small experimental motor cruiser being driven by a couple of fashion models who are trying to pull off a publicity stunt to promote the new boat. Click here to download The Movies Store

Manos, The Hand Of Fate 1966 A family on vacation in the desert takes a wrong turn and ends up in an old dark house run by the creepy Torgo, who says he takes care of the place while The Master is away. As night falls the family is menaced by The Master and his wives, a supernatural cult that worships the evil deity known as Manos . Click here to download The Movie Store

Bad Boy 1939 stars Johnny Downs, led astray by crooked Steve Carson (James Robbins). A bit on the lame side, our goofball hero tries to get his act together through his trials and tribulations and by the end of the flick he gets the cops off his back and puts the real scumbags in the poky. This one of the few mainstream flicks of the day that offered a major role to legendary black actor-writer-director Spencer Williams Jr., best known to contemporary viewers as Andrew H. Brown on TV's Amos 'N' Andy. Click here to download The Movie Store

Made in 1955 a.k.a. Dementia, a narrator takes us deep into the mind of an insane woman awakening from a nightmare in a cheap hotel room. Without dialog we follow her through the skid-row night and encounters with an abusive husband; a wino; a pimp and the rich man he panders for; a flashback to her traumatic childhood; violence; pursuit through dark streets; dementia. Filmed in film-noir style throughout; only the narrator speaks. Click here to download The Movie Store

A Brother From Another Planet 1984 Joe Morton stars in this dramatic comedy, set in New York City in the early 1980s, as "The Brother," an alien and escaped slave who, while fleeing "Another Planet," has crash-landed in Upper New York Harbor.Picked up as homeless, he is deposited in Harlem. The sweet-natured and honest Brother looks like any other black man, except that he is mute and - although other characters in the film never see them - his feet each have three large toes. The Brother has telekinetic powers but, unable to speak, he struggles to express himself and adjust to his new surroundings, including a stint in the Job Corps at a video arcade in Manhattan. Click here to download The Movie Store

I-Beat is pure sexiness with a rough edge. Working Class muscle with a superhero imagination. Enjoy this superb live sample of everyones favorite single "AUTOBIOGRAPHY" @ legendary NYC venue Wicked Willies. This was part of THE NEW FURIES traveling showcase.

Actress Chandra Wilson (Dr. Miranda Bailey) reveals what she admires about her character and how Dr. Bailey is an inspiration for others.