Life (1999)

Starring:

• Eddie Murphy
• Martin Lawrence
• Obba Babatundé
• Nick Cassavetes
• Anthony Anderson
• Barry Shabaka Henley
• Brent Jennings
• Bernie Mac
• Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
• Michael Taliferro
• Guy Torry
• Bokeem Woodbine
• Ned Beatty
• Lisa Nicole Carson

Storyline
During Prohibition, loudmouth Harlem grifter Ray (Eddie Murphy) and the no-nonsense Claude (Martin Lawrence) team up on a bootlegging mission to Mississippi that could bring them big bucks. But they run into trouble when a crooked lawman hits them with a phony murder charge. Ray and Claude are given life sentences and shipped off to jail, where they must think of a way to prove their innocence and avoid the brutal guards while battling their biggest enemies -- their opposing personalities.

Song of Freedom (1936)

Starring:

• Paul Robeson
• Elisabeth Welch
• Esme Percy
• Robert Adams
• James Solomon
• Tony Wane
• Ronald Simpson
• George Mozart
• Jenny Dean
• Joan Fred Emney
• Bernard Ansell

Storyline

After being discovered by prominent composer Gabriel Donozetti (Esme Percy), black laborer John Zinga (Paul Robeson) rises to international stardom as an opera singer in spite of widespread racism. Feeling uneasy, however, in a racially divided society, Zinga turns down a prestigious New York singing contract and instead journeys to his ancestral African homeland. When Zinga is met as an outsider even there, he must struggle for acceptance among the aboriginals from which he descended.