Malcolm X (Special Edition) (2-DVD) PG-13

Malcolm X (Special Edition) (2-DVD)
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DVD Details

  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 3 hours, 22 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 8, 2005
  • Originally Released: 1992
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 56,839
There is too much of a painting-by-numbers, biopic feel to the way the story is unfolded for us. Full Review
The Spectator
Jul 25, 2018
Lee and company have performed a powerful service: they have brought Malcolm X very much to life again, both as man and myth. Full Review
Newsweek
Oct 18, 2008
Rating: 5/5 -- Insightful and well-rounded portrait of Malcolm X. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Jan 2, 2011
Benefits from a lively lead performance by the miscast Denzel Washington but doesn't come within light years of the book, one of the greatest American autobiographies. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Jan 6, 2010
An ambitious, tough, seriously considered biographical film that, with honor, eludes easy characterization.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
The perfect combination of epic and personal, intimate and spectacular. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Mar 4, 2011
Rating: 4/4 -- Spike Lee called 1992's Malcolm X "the picture I was born to make," and star Denzel Washington referred to the titular civil-rights leader as "the role of a lifetime." They're both right...[Blu-ray] Full Review
Groucho Reviews
Jun 4, 2012

Product Description:

Spike Lee brings the life of African-American leader Malcolm X (an intense Denzel Washington in an Oscar-nominated performance) to the big screen in this sprawling, epic biographical drama. Born Malcolm Little, son of a Nebraska preacher, on May 19, 1925, he became one of the most militant leaders and charismatic spokesmen of the black liberation movement before his assassination at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City on February 21, 1965. The film sweeps through his early life as a small-time hustler and thief with his friend Shorty (Lee), his conversion to Islam in jail, and his subsequent life as a controversial spiritual leader and husband of Betty Shabazz (Angela Bassett). Malcolm's tragic assassination is presented as a conspiracy of Nation of Islam leaders; the film shows how his philosophy has been realized in the lives of others who have been moved by his words. Filmed with great visual flair by Lee, the film is a work of entertainment as much as it is a historical artifact. Washington captures the spiritual conversion of the hero with a sincerity that is entirely as believable and ultimately moving as it was in the book that inspired the film, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X.

Description by Warner Home Video:

Adapted from the novel, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" written by Alex Haley, this is an amazing biopic of one of the most influential African American leaders to date. It follows the life and times of Malcolm Little through his transformation to Malcolm X and his departure from the Nation of Islam. Spike Lee's epic film captures the internal struggles, the spiritual, political and structural changes that Malcolm Submitted himself to throughout his life to achieve his changing goals.

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