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1) Men of honor
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The courageous story of an African-American sailor who dared to dream of becoming a U.S. Navy Master Diver. Despite a ruthless training officer and a tragic shipboard accident, Carl's iron will is never broken. Against all odds, he pushes on to achieve the impossible.
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (165 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 1/2 in.
Description
The River Niger: A house-painter/poet struggles to support his cancer-plagued wife. Death of a prophet: Combines documentary footage with reenactments to weave a fascinating work. A suspense thriller which follows the events in the final 24 hours of the life of religious and political leader Malcolm X.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
The film centers around a group of Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer. Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realize this ain't no motherf****** game. This film skewers genre tropes and poses the sardonic question: if the entire cast of a horror movie is Black, who dies first?
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Pennsylvania-born filmmaker Ephraim Asili has been exploring different facets of the African diaspora—and his own place within it—for nearly a decade. His feature-length debut, THE INHERITANCE, is a vibrant, engaging ensemble work that takes place almost entirely within the walls of a West Philadelphia house where a community of young people have come together to form a collective of Black artists and activists.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (179 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Oprah Winfrey, Jackee Harry, Robin Givens and Cicely Tyson star in this gripping drama about a group of strong-willed women living in the rundown housing project of Brewster Place-a street overflowing with tales of courage and anguish.
6) 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.
7) Breaking
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
When Marine veteran Brian Brown-Easley is denied support from Veterans Affairs, financially desperate and running out of options, he takes a bank and several of its employees hostage setting the stage for a tense confrontation with the police. Based on a true story.
Series
Description
Free spirited ex-G.I. and unemployed construction worker Homer Smith stops at a remote farm in the Arizona desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of German refugee Catholic nuns, headed by the strict Mother Maria, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much-needed church in the desert.
10) American skin
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3 /4 in.
Description
A former Marine veteran takes justice into his own hands when the police officer who killed his son is found innocent.
11) Fences
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xviii, 101 pages ; 21 cm
Description
The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilsons ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle plays), Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can,...
12) Haunted Mansion
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Inspired by the classic theme park attraction, this film is about a woman and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Death is ever present in Vicaria's world -- violence, police brutality, substance abuse -- and after watching her mother and brother succumb, she's had enough. Vicaria is going to put an end to all this death...by bringing the dead back to life.
Publisher
Manufactured and distributed by Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miss Jane Pittman is celebrating her 110th birthday. As the civil rights movement heats up, Miss Jane, a former slave, recounts her memories of the black experience from picking potatoes on a southern plantation to fetching water for soldiers in the Civil War to her views on the current and turbulent equal rights movement.
15) Afro samurai
Publisher
Funimation Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Afro is out on a mission to seek revenge for the wrongful death of his father. A warrior who travels a solitary path encountering a myriad of enemies, friends, and challenges beyond imagination.
16) Rough crossings
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against the stirrings of the civil rights movement and a rising wave of burgeoning Black pride. This tells the story of Duff, a railroad section hand who is forced to confront racial prejudice and self-denial when he falls in love with Josie, an educated preacher's daughter. An uplifting story about a man and a woman whose love overcomes racial and class barriers.
18) 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.
19) Amos & Andrew
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr. 36 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a successful African-American author buys a house on an exclusive New England resort island, local law enforcement mistake him for a thief and nearly kill him in a hilariously bungled attempt to protect the estate. But things go from loony to just plain wacky when the town's Police Chief attempts to cover up the embarrassing details of the event by planting a convicted criminal in the house to take the rap!
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