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1) Selma
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
3) Grand Canyon
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"When a lawyer's car breaks down in a dangerous Los Angeles neighborhood, a tow-truck driver arrives just in time to save his life. The two men begin a deep friendship that sets off a chain of unsettling and surprising events involving their families and friends for years to come"--Container.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story, four young Aboriginal Australian women become a singing sensation with the help of an Irish talent scout and go to Vietnam in 1968 to entertain the troops.
5) Cry freedom
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of the friendship between black activist Stephen Biko and white newspaper editor Donald Woods, who was instrumental in bringing Biko's anti-apartheid message to the international community.
6) Disgrace
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010], c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Professor David Lurie is a man whose world is shattered when he is fired for seducing a college student. He finds peace at his estranged daughter's modest farm in South Africa until a horrific incident of terror and violence forces Lurie to confront his beliefs and the disturbing racial complexities of the new South Africa.
7) Till
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
8) Glory road
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Don Haskins, a future Hall of Fame coach of tiny Texas Western University, bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup.
9) Rosewood
Publisher
Warner Home video
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
1 DVD (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1923 a black town in Florida was burned to the ground, its people murdered because of a lie. Some escaped and survived because of the courage and compassion of a few extraordinary people.
10) Heavens fall
Publisher
Allumination Filmworks
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A tragic true story of nine black men who were pulled off an Alabama freight train and accused of raping two young white women, quickly tried, and sentenced to the electric chair. Forcing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, a lone man defends them.
11) A Bronx tale
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A hard-working bus driver must stand up to the local mob boss if he is to keep his son from falling into a life of crime.
12) Malcolm X
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (201 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.
13) Show boat
Series
Criterion collection volume 1021
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
Follows the life journey and heartbreak of Magnolia Hawks, daughter of a MIssissippi River showboat captain.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1107
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
Newt Winger, a fourteen-year-old African American boy, learns about love, racial injustice, and the value of truthfulness when he makes a difficult decision after witnessing a murder in 1920s Kansas.
15) Race
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
Jesse Owens's quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history launches him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
16) West Side story
Publisher
Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (156 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tony and Maria fall in love despite being from different backgrounds.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lily Owens is a young girl who lives on the peach farm that her abusive father owns. Rosaleen is a black woman hired by Lily's father to be a stand-in mother for Lily. When Rosaleen and Lily walk into town, they are approached by some white men. Rosaleen insults these racists by standing up for her rights. The angry men give her a beating and she ends up in the hospital. Lily's father rescues Lily but not Rosaleen, so Lily talks Rosaleen into running...
18) Mudbound
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. +‡e1 booklet (16 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Description
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families -- one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers -- are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with co-writer...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Tensions are growing, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie is Sal's delivery boy. Radio Raheem has the letters of love and hate written on his hands. He is defiant and together with a motivated Buggin Out, push Sal and his sons to their breaking point. The cops intervene, using force and brutality to apprehend the large...
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