Malcolm X [videorecording] / Warner Brothers in association with Largo International ; 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks ; produced by Marvin Worth and Spike Lee ; directed by Spike Lee ; screenplay by Arnold Perl and Spike Lee.

Publication:

Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, c1993.

Format/Description:

Video
2 videocassettes (201 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

Subjects:

Haley, Alex -- Film adaptations.
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965.
Black Muslims -- Biography -- Drama.
African Americans -- Drama.
African Americans -- Race identity -- Drama.
African Americans -- Race relations -- Drama.

Form/Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.

Language:

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

System Details:

VHS; digitally processed; hi-fi; Dolby surround; stereo.

Summary:

Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.

Participant:

Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman, Jr.

Credits:

Photography, Ernest Dickerson; editor, Barry Alexander Brown; music, Terence Blanchard.

Notes:

Based on "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" as told to by Alex Haley.
VHS release of a motion picture originally produced in 1992.

Contributor:

Lee, Spike. , Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Worth, Marvin. , Producer
Perl, Arnold. , Screenwriter
Washington, Denzel, 1954- , Actor
Bassett, Angela. , Actor
Hall, Albert. , Actor
Freeman, Al. , Actor
Blanchard, Terence. , Composer
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965. , Author
Haley, Alex. , Author
Warner Bros. , Producer
Forty Acres & a Mule Filmworks. , Producer
Largo International N.V. , Producer
Warner Home Video (Firm). , Distributor
Van Wert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Related Work:

X, Malcolm, 1925-1965., Author Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Haley, Alex., Author Autobiography of Malcolm X.

ISBN:

0790713756

OCLC:

28492065

Publisher Number:

085391259633
12596 Warner Home Video

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