Get on the bus

Resource Information

The work Get on the bus represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Get on the bus

Statement of responsibility

Columbia Pictures presents a 15 Black Men production in association with 40 Acres & a Mule Filmworks ; a Spike Lee joint ; produced by Reuben Cannon, Bill Borden and Barry Rosenbush ; written by Reggie Rock Bythewood ; directed by Spike Lee

Contributor

• Davis, Ossie
• Dutton, Charles S.
• Blanchard, Terence
• Hall, Albert
• Harper, Hill, 1966-
• Belzer, Richard
• Hernandez, Sandra
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Lee, Spike
• Lennix, Harry J.
• Mac, Bernie
• Forty Acres & a Mule Filmworks
• Mayhew, Ina
• Pierce, Wendell
• Columbia Pictures
• 15 Black Men (Firm)
• Rosenbush, Barry
• Sales, Leander T., 1964-
• Smith, Roger Guenveur
• Washington, Isaiah
• White, Steve, (Steven C.)
• Byrd, Thomas Jefferson, 1950-2020
• Cannon, Reuben, 1946-
• Braugher, Andre
• Casseus, Gabriel
• Davis, Elliot, 1948-
• Borden, Bill, (Film producer)
• Bonds, DeAundre
• Bythewood, Reggie Rock

Actor

• Dutton, Charles S.
• Davis, Ossie
• Bonds, DeAundre
• Harper, Hill, 1966-
• White, Steve, (Steven C.)
• Washington, Isaiah
• Smith, Roger Guenveur
• Pierce, Wendell
• Mac, Bernie
• Lennix, Harry J.
• Belzer, Richard
• Hall, Albert
• Casseus, Gabriel
• Braugher, Andre
• Byrd, Thomas Jefferson, 1950-2020

Composer

• Blanchard, Terence

Costume designer

• Hernandez, Sandra

Director of photography

• Davis, Elliot, 1948-

Editor of moving image work

• Sales, Leander T., 1964-

Film director

• Lee, Spike

Film distributor

• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Film producer

• Rosenbush, Barry
• Cannon, Reuben, 1946-
• Borden, Bill, (Film producer)

Presenter

• Columbia Pictures

Production company

• Forty Acres & a Mule Filmworks
• 15 Black Men (Firm)

Production designer

• Mayhew, Ina

Screenwriter

• Bythewood, Reggie Rock

Subject

• African American men -- Drama
• African American men -- Political activity -- Drama
• African Americans -- Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films -- United States
• Feature films -- United States
• Fiction films
• Male friendship -- United States -- Drama
• Million Man March, 1995, Washington, D.C. -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Fiction films
• Feature films
• Drama

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Follows a group of different men traveling from Los Angeles to the Million Man March in Washington, D.C. They board the bus as strangers but emerge three days and thousands of miles later as brothers

Cataloging source

GH0

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Original score, Terence Blanchard ; director of photography, Elliot Davis ; editor, Leander T. Sales ; costume design, Sandra Hernandez ; production design, Ina Mayhew

Dewey number

791.4372

Language note

English (2-channel Dolby surround or 5.1 Dolby digital) and French (Dolby surround) language soundtracks with optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.G48 2009

PerformerNote

Richard Belzer, DeAundre Bonds, Andre Braugher, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Gabriel Casseus, Albert Hall, Hill Harper, Harry Lennix, Bernie Mac, Wendell Pierce, Roger Guenveur Smith, Isaiah Washington, Steve White, Ossie Davis, Charles S. Dutton

Runtime

121

Technique

live action