Bounce TV Launches Brown Sugar Streaming Service

Featuring what it calls “the biggest collection of the baddest African-American movies of all time,” a new subscription,video-on-demand streaming service, Brown Sugar, launches today.

Brown Sugar, owned by Bounce TV, features an extensive library of iconic black movies, all unedited and commercial-free as they were originally seen in theaters. In the early 1970s, movies began to be made starring African Americans in lead roles. Many of these films were action-fueled crime dramas, along with some comedies and even some camp, all infused with funk and soul music.

“Brown Sugar is just like Netflix, only blacker,” said Pam Grier, who can be seen in Foxy Brown, Coffy, Black Mama/White Mama, Original Gangstas, Drum and more. “These movies are entertaining and fun, but they were also empowering to the black community as they depicted African Americans as strong leading characters and heroes for the first time.”

“You wonder why we call it Brown Sugar? Because it’s bad ass — like me,” said Fred Williamson, whose Brown Sugar movies include Black Caesar, Three The Hard Way, Hammer, Hell Up in Harlem, Bucktown among many others. “Brown Sugar is the coolest streaming movie service on the planet.”