01 January 1997 History, Factual 120 mins
This film highlights moments in the long and rich African American cinema history in relation to social and political events, and how it affected Black viewers of the time.
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Kim Delgado as Narrator
Michael Harrigan Idea
United States 01 January 1997
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1997:
07 December 1997
Homage to famed 1950’s Puerto Rican singer, composer, and television personality Bobby Capó.
07 February 1997
Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for.
16 March 1997
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties.
13 February 1997
The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls—Las Vegas.
05 December 1997
Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him.
02 July 1997
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black.
25 February 1997
Luci, Graci and Mar, three sisters that make a comedy trio, go to the wedding of their father with a woman who is 45 years younger than him.
22 May 1997
A documentary film about Tibetan traditional medicine.
16 September 1997
The celebrated three-act opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart comes to life in this dynamic performance at the world-famous Salzburg Festival.
01 January 1997
A Donatello Award winning short film about an insane woman who cultivates a lawn with beautiful flowers, only to find that they just add to her pain.
08 July 1997
Brakhage's lecture at the Whitney Museum is a thoughtful meditation on another friend and fellow filmmaker Gregory Markopoulos.
05 June 1997
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison.
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