CD-Charts Position 1
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Free to Be You and Me

starring: Marlo Thomas, Alan Alda, Harry Belafonte, Mel Brooks, Rita Coolidge
directed by: Fred Wolf, Len Steckler, Bill Davis (VI)

Release Date November 20, 2001
What's to say?
Free to Be You and Me is timeless, brilliant, and super fun for kids of all ages.
Great cast, wonderfully imaginative songs.
Too bad nobody's making an updated version!

CD-Charts Position 2
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Bobby (Widescreen Edtion)

starring: Demi Moore, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence Fishburne, Lindsay Lohan, Elijah Wood
directed by: Emilio Estevez

Release Date April 10, 2007
What a stinker!

One stereotyped 60's character after another is paraded onto a boring movie.

RFK is portrayed as the second coming (wait...wasn't JFK the 2nd coming...too bad Marilyn is dead, only she would be sure to know) and the answer to everythingthat Estevez and Papa Sheen and the rest of the Hollywood activist set believe is wrong with america. Gratuitous scenes of RFK with black people,but the movie gives patronizing roles to its black characters and has then live out stereotypes (typical white pinkolibs, eh?)

This is just another tribute to the overidealized 60s.

CD-Charts Position 3
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We Are the World - The Story Behind the Song (20th Anniversary Special Edition)

starring: The Pointer Sisters, Harry Belafonte, Jackie Jackson (II), Smokey Robinson, Marlon Jackson
directed by: Tom Trbovich

Release Date February 01, 2005
This is a great product and I received it within a couple days from when I ordered it. Thanks!

CD-Charts Position 4
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Carmen Jones

starring: Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Olga James, Pearl Bailey, Joe Adams (IV)
directed by: Otto Preminger

Release Date January 22, 2002
Dorothy Dandrige's roles went beyond that of sex symbol to being a parody of female sexuality... Carmen Jones is a powerful display of her appeal...

Based on Bizet's operatic masterpiece, Otto Preminger's film is the story of a GI about to go to flying school (Harry Belafonte), a noble young man who loves the cigarette-maker Carmen very dearly...

Filled with passionate songs and a first-rate supporting cast, the movie is filled with exciting musical numbers that are necessary to the film... But as impeccable and skillful the supporting cast is, this is Dandrige's magnetic star of enduring international appeal... Her Carmen is a flame of fire, isolating in a few moments the essence of her attraction... Her enigma sustained ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 5
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Smothered - The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

starring: David Steinberg, David Halberstam, Nancy Nolan, Nicholas Johnson, George Segal
directed by: Maureen Muldaur

Release Date January 28, 2003
Dickie came across a little bitter is this otherwise good video.
I cannot wait for their shows to come out on DVD

CD-Charts Position 6
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Odds Against Tomorrow

starring: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley, Gloria Grahame
directed by: Robert Wise

Release Date December 02, 2003
This nail-biting noir features the estimable talents of Ryan, a progressive in real life who plays a noxious bigot to the hilt, and handsome singer-actor Belafonte, showing a decidedly less wholesome side here. Director Wise and writer Abraham Polonsky add complexity to both characters, detailing the gnarled emotions Slater has for well-meaning girlfriend Lorry (Winters) and sexy upstairs neighbor Helen (Gloria Grahame), while depicting Ingram's barely concealed desperation, as he attempts to revive a marriage that's crumbled due to his gambling habits. It's all downhill from there, as everything goes awry on the day of the job. Considered one of the last bona-fide noirs, those in the mood for a tense, intelligent crime caper will like these "Odds."

CD-Charts Position 7
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Bobby (Full Screen Edition)

starring: Harry Belafonte, Gene Borkan, Laurence Fishburne, Heather Graham, Helen Hunt

Release Date April 10, 2007
Emelio Estevez did an excellent job with this movie. It showed how Bobby Kennedy affected the lives of people. It was good how he put the various footage of Bobby Kennedy's campaign trail in the movie as well. As I was only a wee baby at the time, it was excellent to see.

CD-Charts Position 8
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Uptown Saturday Night

starring: Harry Belafonte, Jophery C. Brown, Roscoe Lee Browne, Rosalind Cash, Lee Chamberlin

Release Date January 13, 2004
Is such a movie as this one. Bill and Sydney have always starred well as a duo. They're about the only two guys I know that can pull off roles as crooks, turn it into comedy and get away with it. But that takes nothing away from Calvin Lockhart and Harry Bellafonte. Everyone in this movie will have you busting your gut laughing. Bunch of fools (but in a funny way). I guess when you lose a lotto ticket, you go thru a lot trying to get it back. But if these clowns had been where they were supposed to be, instead of partying up at Zenobia's, they wouldn't have found themselves in such a mess. I guess they thought the wives wouldn't know they'd been up to no good.

They went from getting robbed, to get beaten up by a 4 foot 10 guy, to getting hooked up with some gangsters to ending ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 9
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White Man's Burden

starring: John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Kelly Lynch, Margaret Avery, Tom Bower
directed by: Desmond Nakano

Release Date May 11, 1999
In a racial role reversal parody, White Man's Burden does a fair job of illustrating the overt, socioeconomic disparity racism creates. It fails, however, to explore the roots of self-hatred, which extends beyond any socio-economic considerations. Taking a hypothetic which could have been included in the production: Imagine John Travolta's character walking into a church with his family. After having taken their seats, they notice all of the imagery including angels and saints adorning the stain-glassed windows, are pure African black. Similarly, a wooly-haired dark Jesus is shown on the cross at the church's alter. Later while looking through a Christian publication, only similar uni-racial imagery appears. While at home watching an excerpt of "The Ten Commandments", the family notices the ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 10
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Buck and the Preacher

starring: Harry Belafonte, Tony Brubaker, Ruby Dee, Lynn Hamilton, Dennis Hines
directed by: Sidney Poitier

Release Date February 29, 2000
This is a western coming from a very different perspective. It is good, but still a little slow at times. Other than that small complaint, I would say the movie was very, very good. If you can rent this movie, do so. It will be weel worth your time.