Paul Winfield
1) Sounder
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An extremely powerful and uplifting story about a family of black sharecroppers, the Morgans, set in rural Louisiana during the 1930s.
2) Sounder
Publisher
Legacy Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Set in rural Louisiana during the Depression, this heartfelt story tells of a sharecropper family struggling to overcome adversity. After stealing to feed his family, Nathan is sent to a prison camp. In their fight for survival, his determined wife and their eldest son hold the family together. Once the boy becomes an adult, he searches for his father but instead discovers manhood.
3) White dog
Series
Criterion collection volume 455
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (26 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A German shepherd is adopted by an actress who learns that the dog has been trained to attack only African Americans. Now it's up to an animal trainer to try to change the dog.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 2029, the ruling giant super-computer, Skynet, sends an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to 1984 to kill a woman, Sarah Connor, whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scienist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses"--Container.
7) Sounder
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has been imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help and sometimes hindrance of various people along the road.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Corp
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers when it comes up against Khan, a genetically enhanced conqueror of late 20th century Earth who has escaped his prison and has set his sights on capturing Project Genesis and destroying Kirk.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 2029, giant super-computers dominate the planet and to destroy man's future by changing the past, they send an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to kill a woman whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope. Can Sarah Connor protect herself from this unstoppable menace?
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ms. Frizzle rockets the class off on a field trip to outer space, then takes the class into space and turns the Bus into a planet with adjustable gravity. The entire class has a 'spacey' adventure when the bus shrinks and gets stuck inside an empty jar, when they find that their only hope for escape is air!
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers, and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this may be his last space mission. But Khan--a brilliant renegade of 20th Century Earth--is back with his exiled band of genetic supermen and setting a deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk ... with the threat of a universal Armageddon!
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (381 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.
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On the road in a "borrowed" '36 Ford, nineteen-year-old Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and his companion, Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, are on a perilous odyssey that takes them from Houston to a mysterious bayou world of voodoo, sex, revenge, and death. Their destination is desolate Pariah, Texas - Mouse's home once, and still home to his hated stepfather. Encountering violent and unexpected threats, Easy and Mouse forge bonds that will link them in the decades...
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John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States, and the youngest man elected to the office. He was assassinated at the age of 46 in 1963. Arthur Ashe was an African American professional tennis player who won more than forty singles titles, including the Australian Open, the U.S. Open, and Wimbledon. He died in 1993 at the age of 49 of AIDS-related pneumonia contracted during heart bypass surgery years earlier.
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