Press kits

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{"value"=>"1915-1980", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1915/1980"}

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{"value"=>"Press kits"}

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{"value"=>"<p>The majority of the material in this series consists of press sheets, press books, and/or press kits, materials generated by film studios and distributors to market their movies to theaters.</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Arranged alphabetically by title.</p>"}

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1915

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1915

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1980

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1915

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1980

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1. Ace High with Brock Peters
2. Across 110th Street with Yaphet Kotto
3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
4. An Affair of the Skin with Diana Sands
5. Africa Ablaze (or Something of Value) with Sidney Poitier
6. A.K.A. Cassius Clay with Muhammad Ali
7. All the Fine Young Cannibals with Pearl Bailey
8. Amazing Grace with Moms Mabley
9. The Angel Levine with Harry Belafonte and Gloria Foster
10. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with Marcia McBroom and Lavelle Roby
11. The Big Bird Cage with Pam Grier
12. The Big Broadcast of 1936
13. The Big Doll House with Pam Grier
14. The Birth of a Nation
15. Black Belt Jones with Jim "Dragon" Kelly and Gloria Hendry
16. Black Caesar with Fred Williamson
17. Black Eye with Fred Williamson
18. Black Girl with Brock Peters and Claudia McNeil
19. The Black Godfather with Rod Perry
20. Black Gunn with Jim Brown
21. Black Jack with George Stanford Brown
22. Black Jesus with Woody Strode
23. Black Mama, White Mama with Pam Grier
24. The Black Moses of Soul with Isaac Hayes
25. Black Rodeo with Archie Wycoff and Muhammad Ali
26. Black Samson with Rockne Tarkington
27. The Black Six with "Mean" Joe Green
28. Blacksnake! with Thomas Baptiste
29. Book of Numbers with Raymond St. Jacques
30. Boot Hill with Woody Strode
31. Brian's Song with Billy Dee Williams
32. Brother John with Sidney Poitier
33. Brothers with Bernie Casey
34. Brubaker with Yaphet Kotto
35. Buck and the Preacher with Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte
36. Burn! with Evaristo Márquez
37. The Bus Is Coming with Mike B. Sims
38. Change of Mind with Raymond St. Jacques
39. Charley-One-Eye with Richard Roundtree
40. Claudine with James Earl Jones
41. Clay Pigeon with Ivan Dixon and Marlene Clark
42. Cleopatra Jones with Tamara Dobson
43. Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold with Tamara Dobson
44. Coffy with Pam Grier
45. Come Back Charleston Blue with Godfrey Cambridge
46. Cool Breeze with Thalmus Rasulala and Judy Pace
47. Cotton Comes to Harlem with Godfrey Cambridge (1970) and They Call Me Mister Tibbs with Sidney Poitier (1971)
48. Crazy Joe with Fred Williamson
49. Dark of the Sun with Jim Brown
50. The Defiant Ones with Sidney Poitier
51. Duel at Diablo with Sidney Poitier
52. Dutchman with Al Freeman, Jr
53. Edge of the City with Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee
54. The Education of Sonny Carson with Rony Clanton
55. El Condor with Jim Brown
56. Embassy with Richard Roundtree
57. The Final Comedown with Billy Dee Williams
58. Five on the Black Hand Side with Clarice Taylor and Godfrey Cambridge
59. For Love of Ivy with Sidney Poitier and Abbey Lincoln
60. Fox Style with Chuck Daniel
61. Foxy Brown with Pam Grier
62. Georgia, Georgia with Diana Sands
63. Gordon's War with Paul Winfield
64. The Grasshopper with Jim Brown
65. The Great White Hope with James Earl Jones
66. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner with Sidney Poitier
67. Guns at Batasi with Earl Cameron
68. Halls of Anger with Calvin Lockhart
69. Hammer with Fred Williamson
70. Hangup with William Elliott
71. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter with Cicely Tyson
72. Hickey and Boggs with Bill Cosby
73. Hit with Billy Dee Williams
74. Hit Man with Bernie Casey and Pamela Grier
75. Honky with Brenda Sykes
76. Huckleberry Finn with Paul Winfield
77. I Crossed the Color Line with Richard Gilden
78. I Escaped from Devil's Island with Jim Brown
79. Imitation of Life with Louise Beavers
80. Imitation of Life (1959) and Flower Drum Song (1961), both with Juanita Moore
81. The Incident with Ruby Dee and Brock Peters
82. Island in the Sun with Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte
83. Jimi Plays Berkeley with Jimi Hendrix
84. Johnny Cool with Sammy Davis, Jr
85. Kenner with Jim Brown
86. The L-Shaped Room with Brock Peters
87. Lady Sings the Blues with Diana Ross
88. The Landlord with Diana Sands
89. Last of the Mobile Hot Shots with Robert Hooks
90. The Learning Tree with Kyle Johnson
91. Let the Good Times Roll with Chuck Berry
92. The Liberation of L. B. Jones with Roscoe Lee Brown and Lola Falana
93. Lilies of the Field with Sidney Poitier
94. The Long Ships with Sidney Poitier
95. The Lost Man with Sidney Poitier
96. The Mack with Max Julien and Richard Pryor
97. Malaga! with Dorothy Dandridge
98. Malcolm X
99. The Man with James Earl Jones
100. A Man Called Adam with Sammy Davis, Jr
101. Mandingo with Ken Norton
102. The Mark of the Hawk with Sidney Poitier
103. The McMasters with Brock Peters
104. Mean Mother with Clifton Brown
105. Melinda with Calvin Lockhart and Rosalind Cash
106. Monterey Pop with Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix
107. Moonfire with Sonny Liston
108. The Naked Prey with Ken Gampu
109. Newman's Law with Roger Robinson
110. One More Time with Sammy Davis, Jr
111. 1000 Convicts and a Woman with Harry Baird
112. The Organization with Sidney Poitier
113. Paris Blues with Sidney Poitier
114. The Pawnbrokers with Brock Peters
115. A Piece of the Action with Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby
116. Popcorn with Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix
117. Pressure Point with Sidney Poitier
118. Quadroon with Kathrine McKee
119. Rainbow Bridge with Jimi Hendrix
120. A Raisin in the Sun with Sidney Poitier
121. The Revengers with Woody Strode
122. Riot with Jim Brown
123. Robin and the 7 Hoods with Sammy Davis, Jr
124. Sapphire with Earl Cameron and Gordon Heath
125. Savage! with James Iglehart
126. Savage Sisters with Gloria Hendry
127. Save the Children
128. The Scalphunters with Ossie Davis
129. Scream Blacula Scream with William Marshall and Pam Grier
130. Sergeants 3 with Sammy Davis, Jr
131. Shaft, Shaft in Africa, and Shaft's Big Score with Richard Roundtree
132. Shock Corridor with Hari Rhodes
133. Show Boat with William Warfield
134. Silver Streak with Richard Pryor
135. Skin Game with Louis Gossett, Jr
136. The Slams with Jim Brown and Judy Pace
137. Slaughter's Big Ripoff with Jim Brown
138. Slaves with Dionne Warwick and Ossie Davis
139. The Slender Thread with Sidney Poitier
140. The Soul of Nigger Charley with Fred Williamson
141. Soul Soldier (or The Red, White, and Black) with Rafer Johnson
142. Soul to Soul with Ike and Tina Turner
143. Sounder with Cicely Tyson
144. The Split with Jim Brown and Diahann Carroll
145. Sugar Hill with Marki Bey
146. Super Fly and Super Fly T.N.T. with Ron O'Neal
147. Sweet Jesus Preacher Man with Roger E. Mosley
148. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song with Melvin Van Peebles
149. Terminal Island with Don Marshall
150. That Man Bolt with Fred Williamson
151. They Call Me Mister Tibbs! with Sidney Poitier
152. The Thing with Two Heads with Rosey Grier
153. Thomasine and Bushrod with Max Julien and Vonetta McGee
154. Three the Hard Way with Jim Brown and Fred Williamson
155. Tick...Tick...Tick... with Jim Brown
156. To Kill a Mockingbird with Brock Peters
157. To Sir, with Love with Sidney Poitier
158. Together Brothers with Ahmad Nurradin and Anthony Wilson
159. Tokoloshe with Saul Pelle
160. Top of the Heap with Christopher St. John and Paula Kelly
161. Trick Baby with Mel Stewart
162. Trouble Man with Robert Hooks
163. Truck Turner with Isaac Hayes and Yaphet Kotto
164. Two Gentlemen Sharing with Hal Frederick
165. Uncle Tom's Cabin with John Kitzmiller
166. Up Tight with Raymond St. Jacques and Ruby Dee
167. Uptown Saturday Night with Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby
168. A Warm December with Sidney Poitier and Esther Anderson
169. Wattstax with Isaac Hayes
170. When the Boys Meet the Girls with Louis Armstrong
171. Which Way Is Up? with Richard Pryor
172. Willie Dynamite with Roscoe Orman
173. The World, the Flesh, and the Devil with Harry Belafonte
174. Zulu