Storyline Hitchhiker Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone (Leon Isaac Kennedy) gets a lift from prostitute Linda (Hazel Spears) in her van and travels with her to meet her clients. After a fight breaks out with the men, Gordone is knocked unconscious and awakens to find he has been wrongly charged with murder. As a way to protect himself in prison, Gordone starts fighting other inmates. This leads him to discover an underground boxing tournament, with the top prize being a prison release.
Storyline Inspired by a dream director Haile Gerima had after seeing Angela Davis handcuffed on television, Child of Resistance
follows a woman (Barbara O. Jones) imprisoned for her fight for social justice. In a film that challenges linear norms
of time and space, Gerima explores the woman’s dreams for liberation
and fears for her people through a series of abstractly rendered
fantasies.
Storyline Charles Keith is the Master of Ceremonies in this nightclub performance film. Before he introduces other acts, he confesses that he is an out-of-work actor whose idol is Bette Davis. He does a masterful impersonation of her role in The Letter in which he first sounds remarkably like the actress, then even begins to look like her. The next act is Joesfred Portee, who sings. Then, Keith introduces "Little Audrey" Armstrong, who demonstrates her remarkable muscle control and persistence in a gyrating dance. For a finale, Ms. Portee comes back and sings.
Storyline Part religious
allegory and part church pageant, it presents the heavenly trial of a
woman who has died giving childbirth out of wedlock. The jailer wears a
mask death’s head mask and a nun’s habit with a skull and crossbones on
the front and God sits on an altar, flanked by angels, while the devil
attempts to convict the woman for her sins.