Home Media Magazine - December 9, 2007 - (Page 22) BUYING GUIDE BLACK HISTORY Edited by Kyra Kudick www.homemediamagazine.com The Kingdom the Audience Award for Best U.S. Picture and the Grand Jury Prize for Best Actor (Loretta Devine) at the 2006 American Black Film Festival. I WARNER HOME VIDEO Due Jan. 15, 2008, (prebook Dec. 11) is The Marva Collins Story (DVD $14.97), which tells the true story of a teacher who used her own retirement money to establish a preparatory school in Chicago’s inner city. Also available the same day are Murder in Mississippi (DVD $14.97), which recounts the weeks leading up to the 1964 deaths of three Civil Rights activists in Mississippi; and Alex Haley’s Queen (two-DVD set $24.98), starring Halle Berry as a woman who is the daughter of a slave and a plantation owner in search of a her place in the two cultures of her heritage in the post-Civil War South. Due Feb. 5, 2008 (prebook Jan. 8) is Black August, starring Gary Dourdan (“CSI”) as inmate activist George Lester Jackson. Method Man – Live From the Sunset Strip I UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT Available Dec. 26 is The Kingdom (DVD $29.98, HD DVD $39.98), starring Jamie Foxx as a member of an elite FBI team sent to a hostile country to find a killer. I VIVENDI VISUAL ENTERTAINMENT/CODE BLACK Arriving Jan. 8, 2008, (prebook Dec. 11) is 500 Years Later (DVD $14.99), about the struggle for Africans to gain independence. Out Jan. 22, 2008, (prebook Dec. 25) is The Amazing Grace (DVD $14.99), about John Newton, who was the captain of a slave ship before he became a Christian and penned the hymn “Amazing Grace.” 22 Home Media Magazine December 9–15, 2007 http://www.homemediamagazine.com
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