Bamboozled 2000  R, 135 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson, Michael Rapaport, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Paul Mooney, Sarah Jones, Gillian Iliana Waters, Susan Batson
Spike Lee takes on racial bias in the television industry as Harvard-educated black writer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) develops a show for black tap dancers Savion Glover and Tommy Davidson. The catch is that they will be made up in black face and perform in a minstrel show. The show is a hit, but its success does not come without repercussions from all sides.
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Carter's Army 1970 TV, 90 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
aka: Black Brigade
Director: George McCowan
Cast: Stephen Boyd, Robert Hooks, Susan Oliver, Roosevelt Grier, Moses Gunn, Richard Pryor, Glynn Turman, Billy Dee Williams, Paul Stewart, Bobby Johnson, Napoleon Whiting, Paul Mooney
Captain Beau Carter (Stephen Boyd) is ordered to lead an all-Black unit on a suicide mission to take a bridge under Nazi control. An even bigger problem than taking the bridge is that Carter is a redneck and has been given only two days to train his men for the mission. Will he succeed?
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In the Army Now 1994  PG, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Daniel Petrie Jr.
Cast: Pauly Shore, Andy Dick, Lori Petty, David Alan Grier, Esai Morales, Lynn Whitfield, Art LaFleur, Fabiana Udenio, Glenn Morshower, Beau Billingslea, Peter Spellos, Paul Mooney
Good friends–Bones Conway (Pauly Shore) and Jack Kaufman (Andy Dick)–join the Army Reserves to make enough money to buy a stereo store. But, they end up being called up for active duty in the Middle East conflict where they accidentally save their fellow soldiers.
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| 1. Bamboozled (2000)
2. Carter's Army (1970)
aka: Black Brigade
3. In the Army Now (1994)
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