Released Date:
1981-12-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (740 Reviews)
Director:
Ivan DixonSam Greenlee (screenplay)
Melvin Clay (screenplay)
Sam Greenlee (novel)
In order to improve his standing with Black voters, a White Senator starts a campaign for the CIA to recruit Black agents. However, all are graded on a curve and doomed to fail, save for a soft-spoken veteran named Dan Freeman. After grueling training in guerrilla warfare, clandestine operations and unarmed combat, he is assigned a meager job as the CIA's token Black employee. After five years of racist and stereotyped treatment by his superiors, he quietly resigns to return to his native Chicago to work for a social services agency...by day. By night, he trains a street gang to be the vanguard in an upcoming race war, using all that the CIA has taught him...
Released Date:
1996-01-26
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (418 Reviews)
Director:
Tim ReidClifton L. Taulbert (book)
Paul W. Cooper (screenplay)
This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent his childhood there. Despite this, we see the life of the community in all its joys and sorrows, of those that live there while others decide to leave for a better life north. For those remaining, things come to a serious situation when one prominent businessman is being muscled out by a white competitor using racist intimidation. In response, the community must make the decision of whether to submit meekly like they always have, or finally fight for their rights.
Released Date:
1996-01-26
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (420 Reviews)
Director:
Tim ReidClifton L. Taulbert (book)
Paul W. Cooper (screenplay)
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