For the Culture

For the Culture

A Curated list of your favorite classics brought to you by Urban Throwbacks!

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  • Stomp The Yard

    Movie

    When his brother is murdered, a street dancer moves to Georgia to work his way through college. He joins a fraternity's step dancing team for a competition. Will he also get an education and the girl?

  • Tuskegee Airmen

    Movie

    The true story of how a group of African American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest US fighter groups in World War II.

  • The Wood

    Movie

    While dealing with a friend's cold feet on his wedding day, a writer reminisces about his youth with his best friends.

  • Crooklyn

    Movie

    Co-written with siblings Joie and Cinqué Lee, Spike Lee's CROOKLYN is a semi-autobiographical portrait illuminating the life of the lively Carmichael family and their vibrant Bedford-Stuyvesant community. Schoolteacher and loving Carmichael matriarch Carolyn (Alfre Woodard) runs a no-nonsense hou...

  • Harlem Nights

    Movie

    During the 1930s, a New York City illegal gambling house owner and his associates must deal with strong competition, gangsters, and corrupt cops in order to stay in business.

  • The Wiz

    Movie

    An adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.

  • The Five Heartbeats

    Movie

    A music group learns that life at the top of the charts isn't any easier than it was at the bottom in this show-biz tale.

  • Waiting To Exhale

    Movie

    This story based on the best selling novel by Terry McMillan follows the lives of four African-American women as they try to deal with their very lives. Friendship becomes the strongest bond between these women as men, careers, and families take them in different directions. Often light-hearted t...

  • Higher Learning

    Movie

    People from all different walks of life, encounter racial tension, rape, responsibility, and the meaning of an education on a university campus.

  • Life

    In 1932, two strangers are wrongfully convicted and develop a strong friendship in prison that lasts them through the 20th century.

  • The Meteor Man

    Movie

    A high school teacher from a troubled inner city Washington D.C. neighborhood becomes a super-powered hero and takes on the gang that has been terrorizing his streets.

  • Coming To America

    Movie

    An extremely pampered African prince travels to Queens, New York and goes undercover to find a wife that he can respect for her intelligence and strong will.

  • Friday

    Movie

    It's Friday, and Craig and Smokey must come up with $200 they owe a local bully or there won't be a Saturday.

  • Love and Basketball

    Movie

    Monica and Quincy love and play basketball together through many life challenges from childhood to adulthood.

  • The Great Debaters

    Movie

    A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.

  • Next Friday

    Movie

    A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles, heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin, to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison.

  • The Last Dragon

    Movie

    In New York City, a young man searches for a Master to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the Glow.

  • Low Down Dirty Shame

    Movie

    An ex-cop, now a private detective, takes on the search for the millions stolen by a drug lord.

  • Why Do Fools Fall In Love

    Movie

    Three women each claim to be the widow of 1950s doo-wop singer Frankie Lymon, claiming legal rights to his estate.

  • Death at a Funeral

    Movie

    A funeral ceremony turns into a debacle of exposed family secrets and misplaced bodies.

  • Cooley High

    Movie

    In 1964 on Chicago's Near-North Side, the lives of four carefree high school seniors and best friends, including an aspiring playwright and an all-city basketball champion, takes a tragic turn.

  • Posse

    Movie

    In 1898 Cuba, five Buffalo Soldiers find a gold cache, desert and return to America where they help defend a black town from the KKK, all the while trying to avoid capture by lawmen and military authorities alike.

  • Hoodlum

    Movie

    Black gangsters in 1930 Harlem fights Dutch Schultz who is trying to horn in on their numbers racket.

  • Love Don't Cost a Thing

    Movie

    A high school loser pays a cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool.